The Institute for Marine and Environmental Law (IMEL) in the Department of Public Law, together with the Marine Research Institute at UCT and Interpol’s Project Scale, hosted a Fisheries Crime Symposium at the Faculty of Law in July 2013. The symposium brought together international, regional and domestic experts from academia and government for a one-day seminar to discuss the challenges and opportunities for improving fisheries compliance and enforcement.
The symposium preceded a two-day consultation on fisheries crime convened by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in collaboration with the Interpol Environmental Crime Programme, through its Project Scale. One of the positive outcomes of the initiative is that IMEL, together with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, received a generous grant from the Ministry of Fisheries in Norway to carry out this initiative – a three-year project commencing in 2014 .
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