Conservationists and a Mauritian fishers roll out a five-year project to replant seagrass — the ‘lungs’ of the ocean
Small-scale fishers, abalone farmers, commercial trawlers, poachers: all have been affected, if not by fishing quotas, then by the pandemic
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 lives and livelihoods.
They are worried about the effect of blasting on the snoek fishery, which is the basis of their income
Fishers claim they are forced into illegal trawling because subsidies only benefit big vessels