Dear Mr. Maimane,
We, the Fishers Movement for Change, need political Parties in the GNU to help us get the Minister and his Department to listen to our problems, which we experience in the Fishing Industry.

During the 2020 season, the previous Minister, Barbary Creecy, implemented the Fishing Rights Applications process for long-term, 15 years, knowingly the equity court rule for sustainable and equitable participation in the industry for subsistence, traditional, and Interim Relief Fishers, which was for 17years, depending on Interim Relief in the Fishing industry.

Some of us serve as Consultative Forum Observers, and then warned and asked her that she can't allocate all the Main Value species to the FRAP, and she should at least ringfence some for the Small Scale Fishers, which they are busy implementing in two years, but she ignored us.

Coming 2023, we all as "Small Scale Fishers" applied to be recognised as such, but in the end, we could not apply for fishing rights. No, DFFE under Creecy decided to register Primary Co-operative, one per community, and forced us into that Co-operative without our Constitutional rights observed for freedom of speech or association and also one have no rights to move from one to another because you can't move with your allocation due it was not allocte to you but to the Co-operative although you register individually.

The Marine Living Resources Act is by now a fossil and needs to be wright over and they only amend those acts as it suits them. The equity court ruling was never implemented, and we, as members of the Co-operatives, received a Basket of species. But the allocation in that basket is Line Fish, 33 Kg WCRL, shellfish for own consumption, washed out Kelp, while the Minority whites business has a concession, and we don't receive Kelp where there is a concession in the area.

We took the streets from Port Nolloth to Paternoster to get the Minister to the table, but instead, he referred to Creecy's mistakes in the past in his Media Statements. We need urgent help because we are educated human beings and want to, while we can, engage with the minister and ask him to listen. We can still fix this, but if he is still stubborn, we have to take action.

Kind Regards