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 […]
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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
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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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The economic impact of the hake deep-sea trawl fishery, its transformation since the early 1990s, and the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the success of the fishery, are three of the subjects that are analysed in the report “Economic study of the hake deep-sea trawl fishery and the implications for future
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The Department of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries has released its 2020 Status of the South African Marine Fishery Resources report. The report presents the most up-to-date information and analyses of the status of marine fishery resources in South Africa today. The number of fish stocks covered by the bi-annual report has increased from 43 in
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Changing lives on the west coast Ten years after establishing an engineering company specialised in ship repair, Mornay Kurtz was faced with a perennial problem: how to find skilled artisans capable of delivering the quality workmanship his clients expected. Mornay’s solution was to start a training and skills development academy. In 2006, former school teacher,