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Sea Harvest electrician, Tembela Phike, is determined to keep pace with technology by continually upgrading her skills.    Thirty-six-year-old Tembela, or Tembi as she is known to her colleagues, first became aware of the field of electrical engineering when the Eastern Cape village where she grew up was electrified.    “I got inspired by the […]

Absolute commitment and a willingness to learn have enabled a young operations management graduate to create a career in the fishing industry.  At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the possibility of securing in-service training seemed like a remote ambition, Andisiwe Mangweni was ecstatic to be offered a 12-month internship with Nalitha Fishing Group

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

Bonga Mavume’s entry to the fishing industry was via a corporate job with the Oceana Group, but the landmark Sea Harvest/Viking Fishing transaction in 2018 gave him the opportunity he needed to start and grow his own company. Today, only eighteen months after its genesis, Mavume’s Nalitha Fishing is diversifying and thriving in Hout Bay.

A panel of five international fisheries experts has encouraged South Africa to work more closely with its neighbour, Namibia, in the management of hake stocks. The experts, who spent a week in early December analysing the state of South Africa’s major renewable marine resources, scrutinized the latest genetic studies of hake to better understand the

Giuseppe Scarcella, Jim Andrews and Johanna Pierre will scrutinise every aspect of the management of the hake deep-sea trawl fishery and assess it against the MSC standard The South African hake fishery was one of the first fisheries in the world to be certified as sustainable and well-managed by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). It

Lucinda Krige, the first woman to qualify as a chief engineer in the South African fishing industry On Thursday 21 November, World Fisheries Day will be celebrated around the globe, highlighting the importance of a sector that produces around 80 million tons of food and employs at least 40 million people. Someone who has personal

Twenty-five years since brothers Don and Basil Lucas started Combined Fishing Enterprises, the question of how best to utilise a small quota is as relevant today as it was then. The brothers come from a family steeped in fishing – their grandfather, father and Basil himself all found employment in the local fishing industry –

With a small quota and a strong drive to participate fully in the catching, processing and sale of Cape hake, Celeste Diest has built Impala Fishing into a highly regarded trawling business. Ask Celeste Diest how she got her start in fishing and she will tell you about running errands for her father, Harry Cottle,