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, an independent Department in the
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 getting to the end of
The SASSI Initiative (2021)
THE SASSI INITIATIVE, AND ITS RELEVANCE IN 2021 Under the auspices of the WWF, the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative came into being in 2005.
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 no logical explanation…
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 to reduce exploitation on Line
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 conundrums, which are almost unanswerable.
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 in to the son’s love