August 2025

31 JULY 2025, CAPE TOWN – Two shipping containers central to South Africa’s first harbour-based fishing net recycling initiative were successfully delivered to Collier Jetty at the V&A Waterfront this week, marking a major milestone for the pilot project launched in May. The containers, supplied by Container World, will be used to house the Ocean […]

Inshore trawlers berthed in Mossel Bay When Colin Attwood from the University of Cape Town’s Department of Biological Sciences began studying South Africa’s inshore fishery in 2014, he and his team of researchers uncovered a complex web of challenges that would reshape how the industry thinks about managing bycatch. This decade-long research effort, which is