A major police operation in the Eastern Cape resulted in the seizure of illegal abalone and stolen goods worth millions. A day after East London police nabbed suspected perlemoen divers diving with ...

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Poverty and crime in South Africa are driving a surge in the illegal harvesting off its shores of the abalone, a large sea snail coveted as a delicacy in some parts ...

It is one of the stranger quirks of crime history that a marine snail became one of the key drivers in the development of the South African synthetic drugs market from the 1990s onwards, as well as ...

The war to halt perlemoen (abalone) poaching has pitched R180-a-kilogram divers on the one side against R4 000-a-month marine inspectors on the other, MPs heard on Wednesday. A briefing to members of ...

Calm seas and a full moon triggered a spike in perlemoen poaching along the Gqeberha coast last week. Police and private anti-poaching units intercepted multiple suspects and confiscated more than ...

Perlemoen poachers are wiping out South Africa's marine resources, but sometimes the pirated shellfish hit back. A Gauteng pilot, Tony Robinson, died in bizarre circumstances some time ago when the ...

Cape Town, South Africa, 5 February 2007—South Africa has taken a decisive step towards stemming the illegal harvest and trade of its endemic abalone species, Haliotis midae, by listing it in Appendix ...

HONG KONG: Connoisseurs of fine food are coming to terms with the news that abalone from South Africa may soon be off the menu here. The South African government has announced plans to make Haliotis ...

Pretoria — Perlemoen poaching is out of control and threatens the survival of some species. According to the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT), authorities last year confiscated ...