We
the KZN SUBSISTENCE Fisher folks are concerned about the sighting of the
suspicious fishing trawlers once again off our coastline. The vessels have been
fishing illegally close to our coastline out of international waters.
This continues to happen during the winter months when the sardine shoal
and other game fish enter our shores.
The
present of the international fishing trawlers continues to occur for a number
of years without any of the necessary monitoring vessels from the fisheries
department guarding our coastline .We find only once the society starts
complaining is there any effort to put a vehicle in the ocean to monitor these
fishing trawlers raping our fishing stocks which are depleted already by a
number of factors such pollution and mining.
One
vessel is not going to be able to monitor this vast ocean of water and there is
a need to use more boats to monitor our delicate coastline.
Comment:
Your report is noted and frankly our department
had been unabatedly been receiving reports of this suspicious vessel movements
off the coast of Port Edward as of late. These reports had been escalated to
the DAFF Fishery Patrol Vessel Unit under Mr. Andile Moshane and Mrs.
Nwabisa Lutshete (copied above) and also to the Vessel Monitoring Unit (VMS) to
track the movements of the suspicious vessel. It was also informed that a
patrol vessel is soon to be deployed to area concerned _ Delricia Augustus
For more information Contact:
Desmond D’Sa
South Durban Community
Environmental Alliance
Contact: 031 461 1991 /
083982 6939
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