Fishing Industry News and Aquaculture SA

The MFV Seaflower, owned by National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor), has run aground near Penguin Island, Luderitz. Severe weather conditions had apparently been the...

The overwintering team at Marion Island are being evacuated and will return to South Africa. This news follows a notification that the departure of the...

The United Kingdom has become the first State to ratify the IMO Cape Town Agreement since its full ratification in February 2026. With the UK’s...

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Mr Willie Aucamp, has highlighted that the Strategic Action Programme of the Benguela Current Convention (BCC)...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is urging all water users across the country to register or update their water use information as...

Public observations of shark and ray species (elasmobranch) in Mozambique are just as important to research data collected traditionally by scientists onboard research vessels...

The Oceana Group’s R330 million investment on the Cape West Coast - its canned fish and fishmeal plant and its canned meat plant -...

The DTIC’s proposed amendments to the B-BBEE Codes are almost certain to trigger legal challenges - not because transformation is being rejected, but because...

Sea Harvest Group Limited has confirmed it has disposed of its value-added dairy business, Ladismith Cheese Company Proprietary Limited (“Ladismith Cheese”). The business has been...

Gary Simpson was not a man who blended quietly into the background of South Africa’s fisheries sector. He stood out - often deliberately so....