Activists say that the litigation to protect the birds’ feeding grounds has been dragged out for months by the state, despite the urgency of the situation
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The two groups are challenging the rationality and legality of a decision by George’s predecessor, Barbara Creecy, to only partially implement the recommendations of an international panel of experts that she appointed to help break deadlock over competition between penguins and commercial fishers. George, two of his deputy directors-general and two fishing groups – the South African Pelagic Fishing Industry Association and the Eastern Cape Pelagic Association – are respondents in the case that was scheduled to be heard in late October, but has been postponed to March next year.
On 21 August, the State Attorney delivered a “without prejudice” letter from George to the applicants and to the fishing industry respondents, inviting them to a meeting to explore a possible out-of-court settlement and proposing the establishment of a working group to resolve, alternatively to suspend, the litigation. answering affidavit
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