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 On 22 February 2023, Minister Creecy issued her third appeals timetable in as many months! Does she and her staff even know what they said the previous month? And to Parliament? They are literally just making it up as they go along. And she continues to insist that she has completed the shark demersal appeals and yet there is simply no record of these appeals, anywhere! The third revised appeals timetable is as follows: The phases and anticipated finalisation dates for each phase is as follows ( verbatim from the Minister's press statement of 22 February 2023 ): Phase one of the appeals process, which was completed on 2 December 2022, dealt with the appeals in the demersal shark sector, the KwaZulu-Natal crustacean trawl sector and with miscellaneous and non-compliant appeals. [ Neither the appeal decisions for shark demersal or the "miscellaneous and non-compliant appeals" have been published some 85 days later] Phase two of the appeals process is presently under consid...

Yep, that's right! Less than 50 days since publishing her "5-phase appeals process" statement on 15 December 2022, the fisheries minister, Barbara Creecy, summarily dumped her appeals process timetable when she addressed parliament at the beginning of February 2023!  And she did not have the slightest decency to even explain why she is dumping a committed timetable that was less than 50 days old!  Her "old" 15 December 2022 appeals timetable can be read here . We have detailed the many lies Creecy and her Fisheries DDG, Sue Middleton, told Parliament on our twitter timeline which can be accessed here . Creecy's "new" unofficial timetable stated before Parliament now commits to the finalisation of only the traditional line fish appeals by February 2023. She had previously committed to finalising all the tuna pole and south coast rock lobster appeals by February 2023. Now, she seems have delayed those to "October 2023". Maybe. Perhaps. Actu...