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As you should know if you have been following me, I go to the St. Lucia estuary mouth every morning. This is part and parcel of information gathering and taking time to understand the dynamics of estuary management and the impacts on the ecology associated with the St. Lucia lake and estuary management process as well as action plans in place by various organisations with the main one being the IWPA or the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority.
To read more about who or what the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority is visit their web site at www.isimangaliso.com the IWPA is in place and very well structured to manage the affairs of the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park World heritage site as declared in December 1999.
I need to start using the information gathered here on the beaches of St. Lucia, every morning, and related environmental data about our region and using my influence generated over time, within the online environment to manage the public perceptions and thinking strategies of you, the reader, along with many others... The issue is what you believe to be correct, may just be some other organisation manipulating the discussion to create a specific view on a specific topic for political or financial gain or both.
Misinformation , disinformation and righteous information are difficult to seperate and place in the correct box. Political and financial pressures can twist the public understanding of topics in strange and nasty ways. Then there is still the social issues and financial issues that creep into the picture. These social issues are rather huge, coz the financial generation that takes place around the exploitation (consumption) is really huge. Think of this in terms of the tonnes of prawns that are sold at supermarkets every where. If the lake was working properly we would be able to supply more than one hundred thousand tonnes of prawns per annum to the retail market
The ecological issues associated with the management of lake St.ucia and the St. Lucia esturine systems as well as the Umfolozi Flats and the Umfolozi esturine systems are strangely intertwined along with political interference with ecological issues to suit the local economy and produce well paying jobs through the capture, processing and sales of fish, crabs, prawns, oysters and other delicacies and the general agricultural use of the fresh water flood plains associated with the five different rivers feeding into lake St. Lucia and the St. Lucia estuary systems.
It is time for an update of the St. Lucia Estuary management plan, as part of the South African national I DP PROCESS. I DP or Integrated Development Plans are mandated by law these days, so the IWPA ( iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority) is forced by legislation to hold public participation process meetings. When and where is an issue that we need to keep our eyes and ears open for. If you here of any such meeting please advise us at 4u2fish@infi4u.co.za
We need to attend these meetings in numbers
#Frankie2Socks
In the past when one Andrew Zaloumis was the CEO at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority these mandated estuary management plans were held in secret and never discussed openly in any local IDP meeting held by the MtubaTuba municipality.
I do need to pay the Mtubatuba municipality a visit and find out about the current round of local municipality IDP process meetings to be held in January and February 2024.
The #4u2fish campaign does need to be one better organized and properly funded. So work is plentiful.
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