The Total Allowable Catches (TAC) for the 2009/10 season has finally been completed with the help of the MV Edinburgh. The TAC at Tristan was the most difficult to forefilled, not because the status of the stock but due to the lack of fishing days, weather and workable harbour conditions.
Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times)
The sign-board that awaits you when finally reaching Tristan da Cunha Island after a week-long South Atlantic sea voyage from Cape Town says “Welcome to the World’s Remotest Island”.
The 7th South African International Commercial Fishing and Maritime Services Exhibition Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has met in Cape Town. Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times)
The former M/V KELSO, renamed M/Y TIANIC, is in the news again because an RNLI lifeboatsman helped co-ordinate a Caribbean sea rescue while out DIY shopping in Britain after a friend called to say he was on sinking ship called Titanic.