Articles
Fishing Articles
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Controlled Exploitation of Inshore Resources
We live in a confused and confusing world guided by a set of principles that, by their very nature generate…
Marine Resources: Some conclusions and my legacy
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.
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?
We live in a confused and confusing world guided by a set of principles that, by their very nature generate…
SASSI and South Africa's inshore fisheries resources
Some 70 years ago at the age of twelve, the writer, having already learnt its potential for great excitement, fun,…
Trawl By-Catch
BY-CATCH is to environmentalists almost as emotive a subject as seal culling. This applies to all types of fisheries, though…
A predator of the past! Mee?
As a line fisherman from the past (1952-1962), then occasionally, until I voluntarily gave up my commercial licence in 1992,…
SASSI, a worthwhile initiative?
Under the auspices of the WWF, the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative came into being last year. It mirrors similar…
Political Articles
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Ramadelusion, Jack Walsh and David Bullard Response and 2020!
The Private Sector must transform faster Cyril Ramaphosa | 25 November 2019 Cyril Ramaphosa says it is wrong that upper…
The Crossroads of 2018
In 2018, as Cyril Ramaphosa took over the Presidency, a kind of euphoria swept the country. Generated as much by…
Book Excerpts
Correcting the mess of Tertiary Education in South Africa - Book Excerpt
Correcting the mess of Tertiary Education in South Africa Let us immediately, for convenience sake deal with the question of…
A Lifetime of Fishing - Excerpt
It is hard to understand how strict the factories were in those days. Their fish was their fish, for the…