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September Article (2022)
LINE-FISH IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT, PROPAGATORY TENDENCIES, RE-INFORCEMENT OF ADJACENT AREAS, FRAP2022, AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS (MPAs). Based on my logic,…
Recreational Fishing Permit Conditions (2022)
Recreational Fishing Permit Conditions Please note that this whole document is to be read as one with all conditions, wherever…
Commercial Linefish (2022)
Boat only saleable Line-Fish caught by Rod and reel or Handline. Click on link to view or download PDF file.
Artisinal Fishing (2022)
Artisinal Fishing The irony of all the fuss that has been made about artisanal fishing this century, is the fact…
Artisinal Regulations (2022)
Artisinal and Small Scale Co-Op Fishers 1) This Permit entiles the holder to fish the Non- Saleable Line-fish list Annexure…
The Enigma Projected by Marine Protected Areas (2022)
Chapter : THE ENIGMA PROJECTED BY MARINE PROTECTED AREAS. Now in my dotage, after a lifetime of fishing for fun…
Unravelling FRAP 2022 further (2022)
It certainly is taking some doing, and still leaves one with a lot of inexplicable facts and unanswerable questions. A…
Greatest Shoal on Earth (2022)
I recently missed an article about South Africa’s massive “Sardine Run” published in Fishing Industry News South Africa in their…
The farce of FRAP 2020 - The Fisheries Resource Allocation process (2022)
The story actually commenced in the mid 1990’s when a small % of of deep-sea hake trawl quotas were awarded…
Marine Seismic Surveys and Terrestrial Fracking (2021)
Truths that the Activists, Greens, Objectivists, and far right Extremists, do not want to hear! Let us start with the…
Failure of FRAP 2020 - Incompetence or Political Expediency? (2021)
You are, unfortunately, more likely to squeeze water out of a stone than obtain any information out of Branch Fisheries,…
Declining line-fish resources (2021)
OUR DECLINING LINE-FISH RESOURCES I do not know where to start, but I do think I know where to start…
The SASSI Initiative (2021)
THE SASSI INITIATIVE, AND ITS RELEVANCE IN 2021 Under the auspices of the WWF, the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative…
Foreign trawler activity in SA waters (2021)
Recently, once again rumours and statements are circulating about foreign trawlers operating in our waters. This has occurred…
Sardine Run Ban? (2021)
I, the sometimes contrarian, have been meaning to comment on a number of Fisheries related matters for a while…
Fisheries Resources (2020)
I, the sometimes contrarian, have been meaning to comment on a number of Fisheries related matters for a while…
Great White Shark Mystery (2020)
First question is, ‘are they a mystery?’ To me, a mystery is an event or experience, for which there is…
Inshore Resources Exploitation Controls (2020)
During last decade and a half, I have repeatedly written about the ever-increasing problems at Branch Fisheries, and their failure…
Marine Resources: Some conclusions and my legacy (2019)
We live in a confused and confusing world guided by a set of principles that, by their very nature generate…
The search for understanding. A lifetime of research on our marine resources (2019)
I guess it all started in 1951, my first year at high school in Grahamstown, when my father, apparently giving…
Who should (be allowed to) catch what? (2019)
As many friends and associates know by now, I am very passionate about the Marine Environment and all that lives…
Fishing Industry and it's fishes future? (2017)
As a line fisherman from the past (1952-1962), then occasionally, until I voluntarily gave up my commercial licence in 1992,…
Inshore Resources 2015: Please listen to me!!?? (2015)
As a line fisherman from the past (1952-1962), then occasionally, until I voluntarily gave up my commercial licence in 1992,…
Ministerial Industry Meeting (2006)
As a line fisherman from the past (1952-1962), then occasionally, until I voluntarily gave up my commercial licence in 1992,…
A predator of the past! Mee? (1995)
As a line fisherman from the past (1952-1962), then occasionally, until I voluntarily gave up my commercial licence in 1992,…
Trawl By-Catch (1989)
BY-CATCH is to environmentalists almost as emotive a subject as seal culling. This applies to all types of fisheries, though…