01/04/2025
‘If you want to see the fishers, pick a bad weather day!
When the south easter is howling, then people will attend.’ - overheard at fishers gathering in Muizenberg.
Apologies for being late with the weekly roundup [24-30.3.25] (we are trying to get it out on Mondays)
This past week was spent predominantly in deep listening, further informing ourselves around issues related to small scale fishing.
We attended a False Bay small scale fishers meeting wonderfully mediated by marine biologist + conservationist, .dunga and his team at The Seas of Good Hope in association with .
Loyiso is a marine biologist, a ‘kelp’ scientist whose roots are in the Eastern Cape where his grandfather works with seaweeds and other natural organisms in his spiritual and medicinal practice. Loyiso is a living bridge between indigenous knowledge and empirical science, something we deeply admire.
Loyiso and his team nurtured the spirit of cooperation in a difficult situation and in the true sense of the word ‘meeting’ a productive connection was made.
Later with Nina Braude, senior attorney from the Biodiversity Law Centre and a Simonstown resident, we met up with ‘Skipper’, the head of the trek netters crew in Simonstown (long beach), for a fascinating sit down on the beach while the fishers waited for the lookouts to signal fish in the bay.
Thursday we connected with the wonderful humans at the to discuss a very exciting collaboration planned for later in the year. They recently re-introduced a previously extinct fish, the ‘Witvis’ or White Fish Barbus andrewi back into the Berg River which we tagged along for (excuse the pun) > look out for it in our reels!
On Friday a caracal was killed by a speeding car on Glen Cairn expressway,
One of the hot spots recognised in the research. Please slow down. It’s better for you anyway.
