The great white sharks in South Africa's False Bay may have deserted the area because of fishing practices in the area—not because killer whales had started hunting them, as was previously ...

False Bay is one of South Africa’s biodiversity hubs, and no-one knows what impact the octopus fishing industry is having on all other marine species.” Picture: Conservation Action Trust ...

Octopus fishing off the coast of Cape Town is supposedly being carried out for ‘research purposes’. ... Here in False Bay, from all the observations that Craig Foster, ...

THE Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is considering an emergency moratorium prohibiting permit holders in the False Bay area from fishing, as a measure to reduce the illegal ...

Four months after Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy put a temporary halt on octopus trapping in False Bay following an online petition and local condemnation of the ...

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The government has temporarily stopped exploratory fishing for octopus in False Bay in the Western Cape following the deaths of two whales. The animals died after becoming entangled in fishing nets.

False Bay, on Cape Town's eastern coast, has long been one of the world's premier locations to spot and interact with white sharks - and a key attraction for the region's $2.5 billion per-year ...