Fishing Trawlers

The Icelandic fisherman who fought the sharks – and won

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

Simon Allison

8 min read

COMOROS

18 JUL 2016

There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching

France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?

Geoff Hill

6 min read

CLIFTON

16 MAY 2012

Tide turns on stranded Cape Town trawler

Attempts to salvage a 50m-long fishing trawler that was stranded off Clifton beach in Cape Town have been hampered, largely by low tides.

Sapa

2 min read

A 50m Japanese fishing trawler runs aground at First Beach in Clifton

CAPE TOWN

12 MAY 2012

Crew at risk as fishing trawler runs aground in Clifton

Crew still aboard a 50m Japanese fishing trawler that has run aground in Clifton are at risk as fog and rising tides hamper rescue operations.

Staff Reporter

1 min read

Fishing Trawlers

The Icelandic fisherman who fought the sharks – and won

​There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching

Tide turns on stranded Cape Town trawler

Crew at risk as fishing trawler runs aground in Clifton

There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching