Category: AQUACULTURE

In pre-pandemic days, and before the disappearance of white sharks from the bay, shark cage diving was booming. After Boulders Beach, shark tourism in False Bay was the largest marine tourism venture in the southern peninsula, co-founder of Apex Shark Expeditions Chris Fallows told DM168. “It attracted more than 7000 people to Simon’s Town each year,”…

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) will soon be launching a revised Standard which will have implications for certified tuna fisheries. Later this month, the MSC will launch a new Fisheries Standard for certified tuna fisheries. This also sets new requirements for harvest strategies for fisheries managed by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), including purse seine and long line tuna…

Seafood importer, packer and distributor, Atlantis Food Holdings, is to acquire Snoek Wholesalers. The Competition Commission South Africa has given the nod to the deal, with conditions. Atlantis Food Holdings is controlled by Cenon Holdings (Pty) Limited and Cenon is controlled by Lonrho Africa Holdings Limited which in turn is controled by Lonrho Holdings Limited. These companies make…

To conduct her research, she has been using the zebrafish – a 5cm long tropical fish native to Southeast Asia. She says “they are globally becoming immensely popular in drug discovery research, as well as research into drug safety.” She adds, “What makes zebrafish such an amazing research tool is that they are genetically more…

The start date for the second surveillance audit of the Namibian hake trawl and longline fishery, has been announced. The Marine Stewardship Council has informed the Namibian demersal hake trawl and longline fishery that its second surveillance audit will start on 23 January 2023. The audit, which will be conducted by a team of specialists from Control…

China’s role in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has a disproportionate impact on Africa. There has recently been some controversy surrounding the mining of bauxite (a precursor to aluminium) in Ghana, with the role of Chinese investment taking centre stage. Bauxite promises to inject big money into the lower-middle-income country, but there are also serious…

The Rwandan government has issued a statement warning any persons bringing live fish illegally into the country after tilapia lake virus (TiLV) was identified in various countries. Following the discovery, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) banned the importation of tilapia fingerlings (young tilapia fish). The virus affects both wild and farmed tilapia…