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 On 27 May 2022, the Department and Minister of Fisheries issued an email requesting applicants to either object or consent to the making public of their personal and commercial information recorded in their respective applications.  The question we keep getting is "HOW DO WE RESPOND?" Here is our advice. Respond to the Minister as follows: You must object in totality to the making public of any of your corporation / personal data for the reasons below.  Fill out the form they require and in Part C insert the following:  The Minister of Fisheries Barbara Creecy I refer to your department’s email below of 27 May 2022 pertaining to the issuance of personal information recorded in my corporation’s application(s) (APP NUMBER / S).  I OBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE AND MAKING PUBLIC OF THIS DATA IN ITS ENTIRETY FOR THE REASONS STATED BELOW: 1. Your proposal is to make this data public in either EXCEL format or some other format on the internet via your department’s FRAP ON...

And so the inevitable has happened ... again. Barbara Creecy, the Fisheries Minister, has now extended the deadline to submit FRAP Appeals by 60 days to 29 July 2022. In reality, these appeals will never be decided. This is why. The funny thing is that the Minister's spokesperson complained to a journalist that it is being made out that the department and its Minister do not know what they doing!  As someone who has run multiple successful fishing rights processes and fixed no less than 2 SA FRAP failures, TRUST ME, YOU LOT DONT HAVE A COOKING CLUE! This is why you literally cant keep to single deadline you set for yourselves!  And Creecy and her team admit to this in their latest communication about having to make applications available. They say -  "However, on the new online platform, applications are not available as they used to be since the electronic system was not designed to allow applicants access to the applications of other applicants. In ...