With the abalone season open, poaching is the biggest threat to this delicacy and its illegal trade has exploded in recent years. Abalones are one of the many organisms threatened with extinction due to overfishing and poaching. Their high market worth no longer allows them to grow to full maturity and what is taken from the oceans, is becoming smaller and smaller. This is probably because of the unique socialeconomic circumstances existing in South Africa and the deplorable living circumstances of poor communities such as Valhalla Park and Mitchells Plain. Large and well organised Chinese syndicates run the abalone underworld in collaboration with local street gangs. Click here to read more https://nca247.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PROJECT-ABALONE-POACHING-JANUARY-2022.pdf
