The company that holds the exploratory octopus trapping permit for False Bay will be allowed to resume work - subject to stringent mitigation measures.
Twenty weeks after Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Barbara Creecy placed a temporary ban on octopus fishing in False Bay, the exploratory industry will be allowed to put boats back into the water and fishers on the sea. But the bay will be empty of octopus gear over this weekend.
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