Academics, conservationists and a number of divisions within the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment all participated in the annual surveillance audit of the South African trawl fishery for…
Hake landings to the port of Lorient came to 330 tonnes in 2022, but this year landings had jumped to 950 tonnes by the end of May. Local fishing vessels…
SADSTIA researcher Fisokuhle Mbatha has been awarded a grant from the Marine Stewardship Council’s Ocean Stewardship Fund (OSF) to improve knowledge about the hake stocks that support the South African trawl fishery.…
Despite positive news that came out of the recent Council of Ministers for fishermen operating from Spain’s Atlantic coast, hard times are still here for Mediterranean fishermen, according to industry…
Galicia’s Minister of the Sea Rosa Quintana has welcomed the Pescaenverde certification awarded to the Port of Burela PO’s (OPP-7) demersal longline fleet. According to the government of Galicia, this…
After an exacting 12-month re-assessment, the South African hake trawl fishery has been certified ‘sustainable’ by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for a fourth five-year period. ‘The South African hake…
An engineering company at Saldanha Bay in South Africa that employed five people in 2007 has grown into a multifaceted organisation with 72 employees, thanks to its association with the…
MSC certification of Namibia’s hake trawl and longline fishery recognises progress made by the Namibian government and fishing industry in rebuilding hake stocks as it becomes the first fishery in Namibia,…
According to industry body SADSTIA, the South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association, the 2016 allocation of rights to the hake inshore trawl fishery was a costly policy and administrative mistake…
The South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) has elected Sea Harvest chief executive Felix Ratheb as the Association’s new chair, taking over from his Sea Harvest colleague, Terence Brown,…