Court Says No to Interdict Application to Restrict Horse Mackerel Fishing

The Western Cape High Court has delivered the judgement for the court case brought by 17 companies over the allocation of commercial fishing rights in the 2015/2016 fishing rights allocation process (FRAP 2015/2016) in the horse mackerel fishery. The Minister wanted all existing Category B right holders to stop fishing until litigation has been finalised, but one of the right holders refused to accept this. The court agreed this would do more harm than good.