Govt to ban fish quotas for individuals
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President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says a new policy is being developed to shift fishing quotas from individuals to industry operators, because there is not enough fish to go around. She said this during her first-ever town hall meeting at Swakopmund on Friday. “We are now with not enough fish to give the quotas, and the quota cannot belong to individuals. We are now bringing that to an end,” she said.Nandi-Ndaitwah said the fishing sector is centralised with many rights holders countrywide, whom she accuses of “selling off” the industry. “It went back to where we thought we didn’t want it to
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