Opening a window on an exciting new world On Saturday 21 November, World Fisheries Day will be celebrated around the globe, highlighting the importance of an economic sector that produces around 80 million tons of food and employs at least 40 million people. Two young Capetonians who have personal experience of the opportunities that exist …
The Covid-19 outbreak and the measures introduced to curb the spread of the disease have hit the global seafood market hard. Fishing Industry News talked to Felix Ratheb, chairman of the SA Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association, about the impact of COVID-19 on the export-oriented hake trawl fishery. This article was published in Fishing Industry News …
The 2016 allocation of rights to the hake inshore trawl fishery was a costly policy and administrative mistake that should not be repeated when rights are allocated to 12 other commercial fisheries in 2021. This is the advice from the South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) which has published the findings of an analysis …
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Statistics tell us that the hake deep-sea trawl fishery is male dominated – an estimated 40% of people working in the fishery are women. Does this matter? What does it mean for gender equality? Four women working in different roles in the fishery share their views and experiences. Bianca Brophy is general manager of …
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Nico Bacon, founder and former executive chairman of the Viking Fishing Group, which was sold to Sea Harvest in 2018, has died in Cape Town at the age of 89. True to character, the legendary fishing entrepreneur worked right up until three weeks ago when he fell ill with Covid-19. Practical, down-to-earth and profoundly entrepreneurial, …
The South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) has elected Sea Harvest chief executive, Felix Ratheb, as chair of the Association. Ratheb takes over from his Sea Harvest colleague, Terence Brown, who chaired the Association for the past three years. Ratheb has more than 17 years of experience in the fishing industry. He joined Sea …
The opportunity to write reports, use mapping software, attend courses and visit fishing company installations were identified as some of the advantages of participating in the first intake of the SADSTIA Graduate Internship Programme which came to an end in April. The programme provided 12-month internships to 20 young graduates, thanks to a partnership with …
A recently published study has shed new light on the life cycle of deep-water hake Merluccius paradoxus, the species of Cape hake that accounts for approximately 85% of the catches of the deep-sea trawl fishery. The study “Oxygen and temperature influence the distribution of deepwater Cape hake Merluccius paradoxus in the southern Benguela: a GAM …
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This story was first published in Fishing Industry News. Monitoring the catches of the deep-sea trawl fishery with cameras is not only efficient and affordable, but it has the potential to substantially improve the management of bycatch in the fishery, a new study has found. The cameras that were mounted in the fish factory of …
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Black-owned rights holders that have invested in vessels and land-based infrastructure should be supported by government and allowed to grow. This is the perspective of Stephen Dondolo, an entrepreneur and investor with a 20-year track record in the South African fishing industry. Stephen is chairman of Eyethu Fishing, a vertically integrated rights holder in the …
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