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About Us – Abalone Poaching

About Us

All Life - People, Animals and Plants – form an integral part of the entire Eco-System!

About Us

CAAP, Community Against Abalone Poaching, came into being as a mouthpiece and lobbying voice for the community because of the tremendous increase and extent of the lawlessness in the greater Gansbaai area, which originated in the authorities' inability to prevent the poaching of abalone. Residents and visitors feel afraid and threatened by the poachers who are becoming arrogant and brazen in their actions.

The community feels that their rights and privileges, as citizens, are being denied by the authorities' lack of decisive action against these evils and that it will soon lead to violent conflict.

Goals

CAAP's objectives are based on the following analysis of the problem:

# Prevention: We want to prevent the poaching of abalone by convincing the law enforcement authorities to fulfil their statutory duties in respect of the protecting, policing and monitoring the resource.

# Legal harvesting: We want to see that the resource is shared by the community as a source of income and food. To achieve this, thorough monitoring of the resource and control through seasonal limits needs to be carried out by law enforcement with similar goals and intentions.

# Rehabilitation: The abalone resource needs to be restored so that it can be harvested in a legal and responsible manner. This must be done in conjunction with aquaculture farms by releasing abalone larvae back into the ocean.

# Prosecution: The reclassification to a Category 1 offense for abalone poaching needs to be a priority, so that courts can enforce heavier sentences for first time offenders and especially against the heads of crime syndicates and gangs that drive the poaching trade.

# Community Education: To connect with people and form partnerships with organizations to protect people that are essentially soft targets and become victims of this vicious cycle of crime. This must be done through community upliftment, job creation, training and education from as early as foundation schooling stages. By achieving this it will uplift communities and give people better self respect and a want to live a crime free life.

# Sports Diving: To have the area that is currently a restricted diving area reopened for sports and recreational divers.

CAAP’s premise is that the Earth and All Life - People, Animals and Plants – form an integral part of the entire Eco-System. For the survival of the Eco-System, it is essential that people respect, maintain and preserve nature to the fullest.