We have noted that, despite the Minister's comments referred to earlier, there continues to be serious conflict between traditional and academic scientific knowledge regarding the sustainable status of certain of our natural fishing resources. In one instance, at Klein Vishoek, despite an abundance of yellowtail, treknet fishers who had been operating there for centuries, have since 2002 been unduly deprived of access to their traditional measure of food security and livelihood opportunity, as a result of incorrect decisions taken by academic scientists. The same unnecessary decision applied for two fishing seasons in respect of abalone fishing.