Seeding its own destruction

“A fishing right is only valuable if there are fish available to catch. It is therefore disingenuous of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to claim that setting an unsustainable total allowable catch supports fishers’ socioeconomic sustainability, when in fact it undermines the very resource upon which their livelihoods depend.” — Theressa Frantz, head of WWF-SA’s environmental programmes, left