Angelo Louw, the director of Greenpeace Africa’s documentary 'Gutted: The Fight Of Kalk Bay Fisher', poses with volunteers and interviewees Moegamat Alie Fortunate and Ferial Davids.Boats in every colour rock gently as the tide comes in on the chillingly quiet harbour. When I first visited here in my youth, the market was as vibrant as the boats docked along its piers.
What is clear from our conversations with the fishing communities is that people are losing their birthright due to unfair laws preventing them from carrying on their age-old tradition of small-scale commercial fishing. This has caused unemployment and stripped away the communities’ means to sustain themselves.
Fortune explained one of the key challenges faced by small-scale fishers was that they struggled to obtain licences from the government due to the stringent requirements which most fishers, due to the informality of their businesses, fail to meet. “It’s not a lot of fish around now lately. I suppose it’s because of the big trawlers that are around. There used to be hundreds and hundreds of snoeks here on the harbour, but nowadays, it’s like 10 snoek, 20 snoek, not even a 100 snoek for the day,” she said.
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