Fishing

Former environment minister Creecy under fire from penguin conservation groups

And new environment minister George has also been criticised

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News | 30 September 2024

West Coast fishers say fishing policy is crippling them

Saldanha and Langebaan fishers say they barely make a livelihood from their quotas

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News | 18 September 2024

Proposals to protect penguins would cripple R5.5-billion fishing industry, court told

Experts differ strongly on new plan for no-take zone around six African penguin breeding islands

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News | 29 August 2024

Wild Coast: Constitutional Court says no to Shell appeal bid

But way is open for Shell to apply for another renewal of seismic survey permit

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Law | 28 August 2024

Stop new mining on West Coast, say fishers

“We depend on the ocean”

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News | 16 August 2024

Marine Protected Areas: Protection from whom?

Subsistence fishers battle for permission to fish while illegal fishing boats plunder our oceans

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News | 2 August 2024

Big old fat fecund females: celebrating Marine Protected Areas Day

In spite of illegal fishing, our MPAs do work

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News | 1 August 2024

Crucial penguin conservation plan heads to court

Minister accused of placing fishing industry interests above the survival of penguins

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News | 4 July 2024

TotalEnergies will destroy our livelihoods say small scale fishers

South African fishers joined a picket outside the company’s AGM in France last week

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Brief | 31 May 2024

Large fishing companies oppose squid quotas in court

The commercial industry is being “greedy” says Eastern Cape small-scale fisher

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Law | 16 May 2024

Durban fishers demand access to piers

eThekwini municipality says fishers are banned from these spots because they violated City by-laws

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News | 7 May 2024

Police and soldiers deployed to tiny West Coast fishing village

Controversial boat quotas to be reconsidered after meeting with Hondeklip Bay fishers, says fisheries department

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News | 3 April 2024

Small-scale fishers threaten to take government to court

Unhappiness over fisheries department’s boat allocations

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News | 22 March 2024

Small-scale fishers could be allowed to catch new species

Department of Fisheries says it welcomes suggestions

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Brief | 27 February 2024

Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Fishing Rights Allocation Process was “rushed and haphazardly allocated” says lawyer for fishers

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News | 5 February 2024

Cape fishers worried about declining fish populations

“The South African story has already been written in Namibia” where there was a three-year moratorium on sardine and anchovy catch because stocks were so low

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News | 24 January 2024