Proposals to protect penguins would cripple R5.5bn fishing industry, court told

Two conservation organisations have asked the courts to impose tougher no-take zones for fishing in penguin breeding areas.The matter has been set down for hearing in the Pretoria division of the Gauteng High Court in October.Implementing proposals by conservationists for revised"no-take" fishing zones around African Penguin breeding islands would cost the pelagic fishing industry as much as R190 million a year, the South African Pelagic Fishing Industry Association says.

Creecy hoped this would be a stop-gap measure while the fishing industry and conservationists negotiated a long-term agreement on the equitable sharing of limited fish stocks between birds and humans. The applicants have now used the Panel's recommended trade-off mechanism to propose a set of new no-take zones around the six islands that they argue will be more effective in protecting penguins. They want a court order substituting this proposal for Creecy's interim closures.

In his affidavit Bergh challenges many of the"theoretical elements" in the calculations of Weideman and colleagues to determine the applicants' proposed new closures. Copeland says the new proposals for closures around the six islands are"scientifically contentious, disputed and incomplete".

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