Covid-19: Inland fisheries plead with minister for 'essential' status

Fishing rights group Masifundise has asked environment minister Barbara Creecy to add “inland fisheries” to other fishing sectors allowed to continue operating in the interests of national food security.In a memo to Creecy this week, Masifundise director Naseegh Jaffer said some of the fishermen had been blocked from fishing, notably at the massive Vanderkloof dam in the Northern Cape where there is a large subsistence fishing community.

“We have been receiving reports from some inland fishers who have been told by the SA Police Service and local nature and conservation authorities that fishers will not be allowed to carry out their fishing activities during lockdown and, if found practising fishing activities, that they will be prosecuted in accordance with the ... lockdown regulations,” Jaffer said.

“We note these reports with great concern as inland small-scale fishers play a vital role as food providers in their communities, especially in local rural areas. “This means that they play a vital food security role in the context of the current national disaster, a time in which many rural people will have decreased access to food and nutrition, especially to animal protein and fats.”

Clarence Oliphant, Vanderkloof subsistence fishing representative, said fishermen were currently “sitting at home unsure what to do”.

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