Fishing Industry News and Aquaculture SA

This week’s hydrology report on the status of water reservoirs released by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) shows that the country’s dam...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE) recently updated the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on its performance during the first two quarters of the...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) says there is misinformation on social media about the status of the commercial abalone fishing...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has long been a pillar of South Africa’s trade relationship with the United States, granting duty-free access...

Namibia is soon to undergo its first Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) re-assessment of its hake trawl and longline fishery. Its’ hake TAC has been...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and its economic significance to South Africa hangs in the balance as debate rages about whether or...

The Western Cape Government together with CapeNature have unveiled a provincial biodiversity plan and protection strategy to strengthen environmental resilience. These strategies will support the...

For many it is a pleasingly development that greater scrutiny will be on the state of safety compliance by fishing companies regarding their fishing...

There are truly some terrible images on social media of the damage to beaches up the West Coast due to coastal mining activities. Many contaminated sites remain in a "care and maintenance" phase, where the focus is on containment rather than achieving permanent remediation. Last month, to comply with an agreed order of the Western Cape High Court, mining company Trans Hex finally delivered its updated Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) to mine near the Olifants River Estuary and surrounding coast. However, according to a team of scientists and lawyers, it contains serious flaws that render it non-compliant with the order. In another case Protect the West Coast (PTWC) raised a red flag over a diamond mining application that will destroy 3184 hectares of critical biodiversity biome in the Northern Cape. But apparently there are solutions to the problem…

By Kevern Cochrane, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Makhanda In 2007, I published an article “Marine Protected Areas as Management Measures: Tools or Toys?”,...