FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS: REVISED DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS: REVISED DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 24 January 2025
• Fisheries & Aquaculture
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has called for input by 23 February 2025 on revised draft regulations among other things intended to ‘minimise illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing’ by foreign vessels in South African waters. First released in January 2024 for comment, the proposed new regulations now reflect some of the input received.

Developed under the 1998 Marine Living Resources Act, once in force they are also expected to:

• provide foreign fishing vessels ‘certainty’ regarding the processes and procedures entailed when entering South African waters
• ‘ensure that South Africa is aware of the presence of foreign fishing vessels in its waters at any given time’
• ‘ensure that if fishing gear is carried on board, it is properly stowed’, and to
• ‘regulate trans-shipment at sea’.

Please click the links below for more information:

• revised draft regulations
• SA Legal Academy report on the original version

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