South Africa’s first harbour-based fishing-net recycling facility has opened its doors at the V&A Waterfront, in Cape Town.

South Africa’s first harbour-based recycling facility has been launched at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town to process ...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is central to South Africa’s ecological and economic future. Yet we are operating in a constrained fiscal climate. A R2.5 billion ...

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A sawfish, a species thought to have vanished from South African waters for decades, was recently found washed up on a beach ...

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has officially launched South Africa’s first harbour ...

South Africa’s fishing industry has secured access to export fish and fish products from listed fisheries to the United States beyond January 2026. This comes after South Africa’s fish products were ...

With just 10,000 breeding pairs left, the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) could be extinct in the wild by 2035 if the current rate of population decline continues. To protect the bird ...

Researchers in South Africa are looking for a way to save the African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) from extinction while balancing the needs of the fishing industry. At the turn of the 20th century, ...

In May 2012, a satellite transmitter was attached to a subadult female white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) by OCEARCH as part of its shark expeditions in Gansbaai, a fishing town in Western Cape, ...