Court lifts suspension on hake fishing
The Western Cape High Court yesterday lifted an interdict preventing existing and new entrants from operating in the Hake Inshore Trawl sector, says a Fin24 report. In January, Judge Lee Bozalek made an interim ruling after an application had been submitted by Viking Inshore Fishing, which was unhappy about the new quotas which came into effect since the beginning of 2017.
In its application, Viking was seeking for the total suspension of hake fishing rights until an internal appeals process for fishing rights had been concluded and Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Minister Senzeni Zokwane had taken a final decision regarding the quotas. The Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement the application to interdict the granting of fishing rights to previously disadvantaged new entrants had been dismissed with costs. ‘The court held that the department explained fully the entire allocation process (of fishing rights),’ it said.
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