Namibia: More Than 600 Unemployed Fishermen Re-Enter Service On Hake Quota Sweetener

By Adolf Kaure.

The Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Uaripi Katjiukua, recently confirmed that the ministry has reached employment agreements with 681 fishermen, who were left jobless since 2015.

The agreement will see the fishermen receive an eight metric tonne quota per person for hake under the government’s employment redress programme.

“It is an active employment but the ministry is not entertaining the allowance per month type of employment for the…