After nice white shark populations round Cape City’s False Bay dwindled, Setting Minister, Barbara Creecy, is looking for public touch upon a proposal to increase the shark cage diving working space nearer to Strandfontein seaside within the Western Cape.
The proposal is out for public remark till 2 October and if authorized, will enable for the short-term working space of shark cage diving inshore, adjoining to Strandfiontein seaside – allowing operators to work 1.3 to 2.5 km offshore.
The proposed extension is meant to revive the ailing shark diving tourism business, which has been struggling since nice whites started disappearing in 2017.
In July of this 12 months, a examine scientific examine confirmed that Cape City’s nice whites probably disappeared due to the presence of orcas in False Bay that triggered an en-masse migration.
‘False Bay is the one space of the three shark cage diving operations that haven’t acquired an inshore working space, as a result of even when the white sharks had been right here, our enterprise was all the time curtailed to white shark patterns and couldn’t work together with the bronze whalers,’ Rob Lawrence, Founding father of African Shark Eco-Charters informed Day by day Maverick.
With the disappearance of nice whites, constitution firms need to utilise different shark species prevalent within the bay to revive the business. ‘We wanted to restructure our enterprise and begin working with different species of sharks,’ stated Chris Fallows, co-founder of Apex Shark Expeditions.
False Bay can be house to different species like bronze whalers and sevengill sharks.
The general public can submit their remark to [email protected] For phone queries, contact 012 399 8816, or 060 834 2477.
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