Permits for Whale Watching and White Shark Cage Diving

Interested parties have been invited by Marine and Coastal Management to apply for annual permits which are renewable for 5 years in the boat-based whale watching and white shark cage diving industries. There are a host of criteria, policy and rules applicable to the completion and submission of applications. Feike has compiled a user-friendly document that identifies and categorises the various criteria and rules for applications. Applications must be submitted by no later than 16h00 on 6 October 2009. Permits will be area based and allocated as follows:

1. Boat-Based Whale Watching Areas

• Port Nolloth (1 permit)
• Lambert's Bay (1 permit)
• St Helena Bay-Sandy Point (1 permit)
• Saldanha Bay (1 permit)
• Cape Town (1 permit)
• Hout Bay (1 permit)
• Cape Point-Kalk Bay (1 permit)
• Gordons Bay (1 permit)
• Hermanus (3 permits)
• Gansbaai (1 permit)
• Kleinbaai (1 permit)
• Arniston and Struisbaai (1 permit)
• Stilbaai (1 permit)
• Mossel Bay (1 permit)
• Knysna (1 permit)
• Plettenberg Bay (2 permits)
• Cape St Francis (1 permit)
• Port Elizabeth (1 permit)
• Kenton-on-Sea (1 permit)
• Port Alfred (1 permit)
• East London (1 permit)
• Kei-Umgazi Rivers (2 permits)
• Shelley Beach (2 permits)
• Durban ( 2 permits)
• Richards Bay (1 permit)
• St Lucia (2 permits)
• Sodwana Bay (1 permit)

2. White Shark Cage Diving Areas

• Seal Island, False Bay (3 permits)
• Dyer Island, Gansbaai (8 permits)
• Quoin Rock, Quoin Point (2 permits)
• Sea Island, Mossel Bay (1 permit)
• Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth ( 2 permits)