Fishing Industry News and Aquaculture SA

South Africa’s small-scale fishery sector stands at a dangerous crossroads. For thousands of coastal households, fishing is not merely an economic activity - it...

A court case that matters for the whole of South Africa is to do with Block 5/6/7 - an area 60km off Cape Point identified...

At the recent 17th Alternative Mining Indaba delegates were given food for thought when they heard about some faith-rooted community-led alternatives to extractive development. The...

The 11th World Recreational Fisheries Conference gets underway at Mpekweni Beach Resort in the Eastern Cape this week. Hopefully this will lead to a...

Eastern Cape fish and seafood suppliers had the opportunity recently to connect with a German delegation looking to source their produce for the European...

An unusual visitor from Antarctica was spotted along the Cape’s coastline this week. A female crabeater seal, a species seldom seen in South African...

An agreement has been reached by South African trawler owners and operators and seabed habitat experts on 10 seabed management areas (SMAs) that the...

A recent meeting with the Portfolio Committee on Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has revealed where the most energy has been applied to the...

New research - New limits on global trade of sharks won’t be enough to save them from overfishing, writes Hollie Booth, University of Oxford;...

Urgent attention needs to be paid to the systemic inequality facing small-scale fisher communities. A formal submission has been made to the South African...