Thursday 8 June 2023 marks the United Nation’s 15th World Ocean Day. The day was created in 2008 as a way to celebrate our world’s shared ocean and our personal connection to the sea. To mark World Ocean Day 2023, the Marine Stewardship Council created this list of ten incredible facts about food from the […]
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SADSTIA researcher, Fisokuhle Mbatha, has been awarded a grant from the Marine Stewardship Council’s Ocean Stewardship Fund (OSF) to improve knowledge about the hake stocks that support the South African trawl fishery. The £3 200 (R78 000) student research grant will help to fund Mbatha’s doctoral studies which are concerned with the ways in which
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The newly elected Executive Committee of the South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA), is more inclusive than ever before, signifying new energy for steering the trajectory of South Africa’s most important fishery. SADSTIA’s members generate approximately 50 percent of the value of South Africa’s fishery production. They catch, process and export a range of
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At 82 years of age, captain Noel Less still works a five-day week as a fishing gear specialist at Sea Harvest’s Viking Fishing Division in Cape Town harbour. Less is regarded as a legend of the South African deep-sea trawl fishery. With a burning passion for fishing, he spent two decades working as a top
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A steely determination to succeed coupled with the unwavering support of his employer have enabled I&J electrician Ashley Bosch to build the career he wants. The refrigeration plant at I&J’s fresh fish processing plant in Cape Town is cavernous and as neat as a pin. Against the constant rumble of huge compressors, a small team
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By Felix Ratheb, Chairman of SADSTIA There is enormous hope within fishing companies, large and small, that the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) will end the year with a fair and rational allocation of rights across 12 commercial fisheries, the hake deep-sea trawl fishery among them. As SADSTIA we have done everything
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On Sunday 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. A South African family that understands the importance of a vibrant and sustainable fishing industry is the Carelse family
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Two young women at the interface of quay and sea share their experience of working in the fishing industry. Megan de Klerk and Nelile Gcabashe work for different fishing companies in different locations, but the two are united by their youth and commitment to pushing the barriers that they believe are preventing women from building
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Thirty years after the widely publicised decline and commercial extinction of northern cod off the northeast coast of Canada, the average abundance of groundfish stocks, including the Cape hakes, is increasing and may result in increased harvests in the future. The paper Global status of groundfish stocks which was published in the journal Fish and
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A rap video about vulnerable marine ecosystems is spreading quickly among fishing crews working in South Africa’s trawl fishery for hake. Created by ecologist and filmmaker, Otto Whitehead, musician Walz and local lyricist KRO-BARZ, #DiepRespek, shines a fresh new light on the deep-sea environment and the need to protect seabed organisms from harm. It is
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