by Masifundise | Oct 16, 2020 | Coastal Links, Featured News, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
Masifundise held a long-awaited virtual meeting with the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on 8 October to address various obstacles holding up the cooperative registration process. The meeting was a result of many engagements with small-scale fishing...
by Masifundise | Sep 30, 2020 | Coastal Links, Featured News, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
Following the promulgation of the Small-scale Fishing Policy (SSFP) in 2012, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) began registering new cooperatives along the coastline in 2016. From the beginning of the process, small-scale fishing (SSF)...
by Masifundise | Sep 16, 2020 | Featured News, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
The mismatched species allocation by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) has created major challenges for small-scale fishers in KwaZulu-Natal. The allocations do not speak to the customary practices of KZN fishers nor do they recognise or...
by Masifundise | Sep 16, 2020 | Featured News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) is going ahead with the registration and training of small-scale fishing cooperatives in Langebaan on 14 September 2020. The Department has admitted that the training they have provided in other communities...
by Masifundise | Sep 3, 2020 | Featured News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Uncategorized
On 4th of June, Masifundise, together with Coastal Links and other organisations’ representatives, addressed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on the state of small-scale fishing communities and subsistence fishers as...
by Masifundise | Feb 26, 2018 | Coastal Links, Customary Rights, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Coastal Links KZN leaders and fishers are in shock. They have realised that DAFF’s understanding of the words ‘co-operative’, ‘co-management’ and ‘human rights’ is not the same as theirs. Fishing communities in this province have been waiting for the implementation of...
