OWN Correspondent OUSTED from their homes in District 6 during the apartheid era, many of South Africa’s fishing families were re-located to places like Saldanha, Gansbaai and Kalk Bay to continue their craft.
One such family were the Fortunes, now headed by Ishmael Fortune, a third generation fisherman who now lives the picturesque deep south village of Kalk Bay.
In summer they would sell their hake and snoek, and in winter, abalone or “perlemoen” was the staple diet – until, that is, the government put a price tag on the fish that the fishers were harvesting from the ocean.
Up until 1994, quota systems regulated who got what, with expensive resources set as a condition on which allocation rights would be distributed.
On September 1, 1998, the Marine Living Resources…
