Small-scale fishers, abalone farmers, commercial trawlers, poachers: all have been affected, if not by fishing quotas, then by the pandemic
The recreational fishing industry, employing 94 000 people and generating R36-billion a year, pleads for permission to return to work before it collapses
The story of Johannes Stefansson, who helped to pay massive bribes in Namibia – and survived death threats from Cape gangsters, and a poisoning attempt, to blow the whistle
The department of environmental affairs wants trout declared an invasive species, but a lobby group says this move will kill an important industry
Among the plans are increased funds for black farmers and agri-processing to create jobs
The country has everything going for it yet is plagued by debts and mismanaged budgets, as the disastrous $850mn fishing scheme clearly illustrates.
The new app – known as Abalobi – signals a lifeline for fisherfolk who were marginalised and never had legal rights to fish marine resources.
Some of the bodies found on mystery vessels are believed to be those of North Korean soldiers.
Fishermen are up in arms over a scheme to take rights from the previously disadvantaged and give them to a new group of previously disadvantaged.
The short-term profits from commercial exploitation of offshore mineral resources may imperil fishing communities.
Fishing licences for locals and the influx of traders from Zambia and the DRC should be controlled, writes Roman Grynberg.
The Ocean View fishers say they’re being forced into poverty by the government’s “flawed and corrupt” fishing permit processes.
Behind the Cape’s illicit perlemoen trade are whole communities that rely on the income the illegal abalone fishers bring in.
Indigent fishermen may have been thrown a lifeline in the fishing industry, which is facing unprecedented turbulence.
Acting deputy director for fisheries Desmond Stevens denies any foul play in the reduction or issuing process of traditional line-fishing licences.
The fisheries department has announced fisherman who were refused line fishing rights may apply for exemptions pending an appeals process outcome.
South Africa has for years taken pride in having well-managed fisheries.
Activists and fishing groups are at odds with the department over ‘unsustainable’ catch allowances.
Mining on land very evidently leaves scars and long-term problems such as acid mine drainage.
What harm could mining do to the sea bed?
Fishing is the lifeblood of Cabinda, a small exclave of Angola separated from the rest of the country by a sliver of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fishermen believe the new ‘experimental’ permits are an ANC ploy to gain their votes. Fiona Macleod reports.
Consumer choice drives production and capitalism and colour-coding is changing demand patterns and the species caught, writes Sipho Kigs.
Researchers find that it is making them increasingly vulnerable to predators.
Marine interests are up in arms after vital areas were left out of its transfer to the agriculture department.