The newly appointed mayor of Saldanha Bay, Andre Truter, has great ambitions to reinvigorate the impoverished fishing communities on the West Coast. His wish list includes creating a portfolio for fishing and agriculture within the municipality.
Poaching is usually associated with lucrative illegal syndicates in South Africa and the Asian mafia. But in Paternoster along the West Coast, unemployed fishermen say poaching three or four lobsters to put on the table is poverty alleviation. Poaching is usually associated with lucrative illeg.