A job that builds dignity and self-respect thanks to our fair, ethical and inclusive labour policies. With widespread unemployment and poverty, the community deals with high levels of crime, drug addiction and gender-based violence.Īs a company, we provided Atlantis families with much-needed employment. We positively impact a further approximately 1 500 family and extended family members who are supported by our employees, many of whom are the sole breadwinners.Ītlantis Seafood Products (ASP) has its roots in Atlantis, Cape Town, which is a previously disadvantaged community established in the 1970s when the Apartheid government’s draconian laws uprooted coloured families to the outskirts of the city. Today, Atlantis Seafood Products employs 359 people from the community. This broad-based BEE transaction resulted in 100% of the company’s economic rights being transferred to the Atlantis community members, the majority being previously disadvantaged black women. In a landmark decision, Atlantis Seafood Products was sold to the Atlantis Workers’ Trust in 2016. This business soon provided hundreds of jobs and contributed towards the economic empowerment of the poverty-stricken community. The community, so far from employment and scarred by the removal, quickly became a poverty trap, known by some as a forgotten town.ĭue to the potential for uplifting this forgotten community, the original owners decided to build a seafood production and processing factory in Atlantis in 2006. The FRAP 2021 process has the potential to significantly transform the lives of the beneficiaries of the Atlantis Worker’s Trust and the community of Atlantis.Ītlantis was established in the 1970s when coloured families from District Six in Cape Town’s city centre, were forcibly removed from their homes under the Group Areas Act and placed there, 45km from the city. In the 2015/2016 allocation process Atlantis Seafood Products was successfully awarded rights in the Hake Inshore Trawl (HIT), West Coast Rock Lobster and Horse Mackerel sectors.Īccess to additional fish supply through increased quota would allow the factory to be less dependent on sourcing products locally and internationally. The South African Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) is reviewed every 15 years with the intention of allocating fishing rights in an equitable process that promotes equality, transformation, job creation, competition and investment in the industry. The Atlantis Seafood Products factory is closely linked to the well-being of the local community and our focus is to create employment and uplift the Atlantis community. At the time, the factory employed over 496 people, with 444 previously disadvantaged staff members from the community, the majority black women, being beneficiaries of the trust. In 2016, the business was sold to the Atlantis Workers’ Trust. We believe that further quota granted to our business will directly benefit our workforce and the local Atlantis community that we support, for many years to come. In 2021, ASP became a shareholder in a hake longline vessel as well as in a pilchard and anchovy vessel, both operating in South African waters.Ītlantis Seafood Products is committed to ongoing investment in the South African fishing industry.This joint venture allows us to collaborate with other small quota holders to establish and sustain a viable fishing business. In 2019, ASP purchased shares in Lwandlekazi Fishing (Pty) Ltd, a commercial fishing company which owns a hake fishing trawler.The success of our factory, to date, has been dependent on imported seafood products and outsourced processing work.ĪSP has invested in local commercial fishing ventures: An economically viable quota, especially in the hake sector, will allow the business to be less reliant on imports and become truly vertically integrated.įor our long-term sustainability, we have placed a lot of emphasis and hope on the upcoming allocation process. It’s for this reason that the upcoming FRAP applications are so important. Unfortunately, this was not sufficient to have a significant effect on production. In the Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) 2015/2016, Atlantis Seafood Products successfully obtained a small quota in the Hake Inshore Trawl, West Coast Rock Lobster and Horse Mackerel sectors. We need guaranteed, sustainable access to locally caught hake and other seafood products. To service our existing markets without relying on imports, ASP depends on sufficient fishing quota.

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