Fishers
latest news & developments
Healing the waters: Watching the grass grow in marine ecosystems
Conservationists and a Mauritian fishers roll out a five-year project to replant seagrass — the ‘lungs’ of the ocean
A fight for survival: How West Coast fishers have stayed afloat in the pandemic
Small-scale fishers, abalone farmers, commercial trawlers, poachers: all have been affected, if not by fishing quotas, then by the pandemic
St Lucia Lake fisher community say they are not ‘poachers’
KwaNibela residents rely on the fish and reeds they harvest within the protected iSimangaliso Wetland Park. But authorities consider this poaching, threatening the community’s…
Seismic surveys on West Coast pose threat to small-scale fishers’ livelihoods and culture
They are worried about the effect of blasting on the snoek fishery, which is the basis of their income
Fishing subsidies in the W. Cape: ‘Illegal fishing is our only option’
Fishers claim they are forced into illegal trawling because subsidies only benefit big vessels