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…
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.…
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…
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,…
A panel of five international fisheries experts has encouraged South Africa to work more closely with neighbouring Namibia in managing deep-water hake stocks. The experts, who spent a week in…
The South African hake fishery was one of the first fisheries in the world to be certified as sustainable and well-managed by the Marine Stewardship Council, and it remains the…
Ask Celeste Diest how she got her start in fishing and she’ll tell you about running errands for her father, Harry Cottle, a ‘coloured’ entrepreneur who through sheer determination established…
The South African Deep-Sea Trawling Industry Association (SADSTIA) has welcomed the publication of a Government Gazette which effectively suspends the Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) that would have culminated in…