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 ...

In 2024, poachers stripped the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline of an estimated R1.2-billion worth of perlemoen, which ends up in Asia via the black market. Hundreds of illegal divers operate along the ...

Two Eastern Cape policemen who worked in a court dealing with cases of perlemoen poaching were themselves arrested this week for allegedly plundering the endangered species. Wayne Kuhn and Willem van ...

While the authorities were launching the country's first environmental court in Hermanus last week in a bid to stamp out poaching, Marine and Coastal Management inspectors were investigating a ...

Cape Town - A bloody battle, apparently with links to China, is playing out in the Western Cape as a tussle for control of the lucrative perlemoen trade in the province intensifies. According to ...

A proposal that could curb the illegal trade in perlemoen has fallen between two stools, with neither the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism nor its fisheries arm able to explain why the ...

In little over a year, a dedicated anti-poaching operative has recovered 100 bags of illegally harvested perlemoen along the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline. Working with his team from Dark Water Ops, a ...

Perlemoen worth R86,000 was confiscated and a suspect arrested after a high-speed chase by Gqeberha flying squad members and Humewood police on Thursday. Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van ...

A haul of perlemoen worth about R1-million was found hidden in the bushes along Port Elizabeth’s Marine Drive on Friday. Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said members of the Port Elizabeth ...

Two men were busted at a routine roadblock on Randfontein Road when they were found in possession of perlemoen (abalone). The two men driving a stolen white Nissan Pathfinder were stopped on Thursday ...