Is the tide turning for Namibia’s fishing sector?
Namibia’s ‘Fishrot’ scandal exposed evidence of huge corruption in the fishing sector. But politicisation of the rights and quotas allocation process runs deep
06 February 2020 - 05:00
In the world of industrial fishing and economies of scale, fishing rights and quotas are everything. Yet Seawork Fish Processors, Namibia’s most successful seafood-processing company, does not have a single catch quota. And it’s not interested in lobbying for one.
"We just stay out of the politics completely," shrugs Seawork CEO Peter Pahl, sitting in his temporary office at the former Cadilu plant in Walvis Bay. It’s up the road from the company’s main plant on "Factory Road", where a R50m state-of-the-art upgrade is being finalised...
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