Conservationists and law enforcement agencies in South Africa are launching a new Gillnet Reporting App to combat the rising problem of illegal gillnetting in rivers and…
The closures sound the ‘death knell’ for the seabirds
Decades before today’s migrants boarded small boats to Europe to ‘take their jobs’, European fishing ships were trawling West African waters, taking food and jobs from the…
Concentrate on renewable energy, rather than putting the sensitive habitats and species, whales at risk by drilling exploration wells
Small-scale fishers, abalone farmers, commercial trawlers, poachers: all have been affected, if not by fishing quotas, then by the pandemic
The Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys are heading to court for urgent interdict against Searcher Seismic, an Australian exploration outfit
Yet plans are underway to import more plastic waste into the country and it has not signed global plastics treaty
The documentary ‘Seaspiracy’ is a textbook display of disingenuous interviewing
We must act now to secure the world’s oceans as a common good — and prevent catastrophic repercussions, argues Halemariam Desalegn
A Dutch court has ordered the energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary to pay farmers compensation over oil spills
Government panel blames killer whales for the depleted population of great white sharks, but experts say overfishing is the big culprit that is not being addressed
Global food companies avoid paying taxes by shifting profits around the world. Finance Uncovered reports on the case of Icelandic fishing giant Samherji’s operations in Namibia
I’m going fishing on Friday. Watch the sun rise, smoke a spliff, tangle a line in the sea. Unless NDZ is tempted to do a level U-turn
The recreational fishing industry, employing 94 000 people and generating R36-billion a year, pleads for permission to return to work before it collapses
No-take zones in estuaries may be the solution
The department of environmental affairs wants trout declared an invasive species, but a lobby group says this move will kill an important industry
The new app – known as Abalobi – signals a lifeline for fisherfolk who were marginalised and never had legal rights to fish marine resources.
Sometimes, delivering mixed messages is a good thing, as an integrated project in the Lake Tanganyika region has proved.
Despite Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s address on the fishing rights allocation process, some line fishers are still unsure about the controversial process.
A former legal adviser for ex-fisheries minister Valli Moosa says the department’s scoresheets – giving fishermen permits to work – are unlawful.
