“The Marine Living Resources Act prescribes the need to restructure the fishing industry to address historical imbalances and to achieve equity within all branches of the industry. The deep-sea trawl fishery is surely on its way to achieve this equity”. So says newly elected chairman of SADSTIA, Terence Brown, who has announced a radical change […]
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The UCT graduate will spend the next 12 months working closely with SADSTIA secretary, Johann Augustyn, gaining as much knowledge about the deep-sea trawling industry and its management as she can. Fisokuhle took up her position with SADSTIA following a rigorous interview and assessment process that was facilitated by WWF-South Africa. She is one of
Fisokuhle Mbatha, has begun a year long internship with SADSTIA. Read More »
Clyde Bodenham, chairperson of SAHLLA and Tim Reddell, chairperson of SADSTIA signed the Code of Conduct A Code of Conduct signed by SADSTIA and the South African Hake Longline Association (SAHLLA) is expected to dramatically reduce conflicts between trawlers and longline fishing vessels that target hake on the same fishing grounds. The Code of Conduct
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By agreement of both parties – Viking Inshore Fishing and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries – the review of the allocation of rights to the inshore trawl fishery for hake and sole that was set to begin in the Cape High Court yesterday, 6 February 2017, has been postponed to late April 2017.
Barrie Rose, whose sustained effort to improve the environmental performance of the South African trawling fleet over a period of 30 years resulted in several major gains for the environment, has passed away in Cape Town. Barrie was fatally injured after a fall from the rocks while fishing at Cape Point on Friday 30 December.
Fishing industry associations and companies active in South Africa’s deep-sea and midwater trawl fisheries were successful in their challenge of an experimental fishing permit for horse mackerel granted by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) under controversial circumstances. The permit was allocated to Global Pact Trading Online 3 (Pty) Ltd on 15 December
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Companies with interests in fishing were at the top of the Most Empowered Companies list, announced in Johannesburg on Thursday October 6 and published in Business Report last Friday. African Equity Empowerment Investments, which topped the list of Most Empowered Companies, is parent company to Premier Fishing, which holds rights in the rock lobster fishery,
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