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Following steadfastly in the shoes of the ruinous ANC Minister of Fisheries, the DA's latest fisheries Minister, Willie Aucamp, has filed a self-review application in the small pelagic fishery 5 months after Dion George first said he would do so.  The self-review application seeks to farcically turn the fishing rights allocation clock in this fishery all the way back to January 2022. It effectively seeks to pretend that -  1.     fishing rights were never allocated to some 160 companies that target pilchards and anchovies; 2.     dozens of rights were allocated to new entrant applicants who today are no longer "new entrants" and these businesses have over the past 4 years invested; employed; have incurred long term loans and debt BASED ON THE FACT THAT RIGHTS were allocated to them for 15 years in 2022. It is truly incomprehensible how self-defeating this DA-led fisheries ministry is.  We will be advising our clients on how best to approach this self-r...