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) Fishing families chased away from dam
Moratorium tackled Julian Rusconi and his son, Antonio (5) of Durbanvil le are enjoying a legal outing, sailing their boat on the Sonstraal Dam in Durbanville. Fishing at this dam, as well as the Vygeboom Dam, is illegal. The City of Cape Town plans to reconsider the moratori um on fishing at these dams. Photo: Carina Roux
ESMÉ ERASMUS
The thorny issue of fishing at the two retention dams in Durbanville flared up this weekend again with residents crying out for a reconsideration of the moratorium on fishing. A moratorium was placed on fishing at the Sonstraal and Vygeboom dams in 2007. It was the result of numerous complaints about noise, drunkenness, camping, parking problems, littering and injury to waterfowl. Anglers were then accused of
leaving behind fishing lines and hooks. Waterfowl subsequently got caught up in the fishing tackle and were maimed, even killed. Notice boards were then put up at the dams to prohibit fishing. The latest outcry came after about nine families who were enjoying a picnic and fishing at the Sonstraal Dam on Sunday morning were chased away at about 10:30 by law enforcement officers. According to a father from Durbanville, who was fishing there with his son after church, about 15 teenagers who came to the dam on their bicycles and motorbikes to
fish, were also chased away. “We are decent people and were just enjoying ourselves. The dam was jampacked with activity. “As soon as we sat down and started chatting, I looked around and felt proud to have such a great dam with families having picnics and young teenagers stopping with fishing rods to fish. It was a great sight to see,” he wrote to TygerBurger. “Then the law enforcement officials arrived and walked to everyone sitting at the dam and threatened us with a R1 000 fine if we carried on fishing.
“They chased away the teenagers, fathers and sons that were there to bond and forced families to pack up a day at the dam to go elsewhere. The father added he found it “absolutely pathetic” that the Durbanville community allows this. He admitted they (law enforcement) were just doing their job and were polite, but firmly believes the ban on fishing should be reconsidered. “These youngsters were only having good, clean fun fishing at the dams. “In a society full of alcohol and
drug abuse by our youth, surely an innocent fishing trip should be allowed, especially on a Sunday morning,” he said. Malcolm King, a representative of the Western Province Freshwater Angling Association and chairman of the Cape Town Angling Club, said he grew up fishing at the two dams in Durbanville. “They really should reconsider this moratorium on fishing. “Our children need ways to relax and have good, clean fun without being harassed, instead of hanging out in shopping malls,” he said. . To page 2.
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