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DA QUESTIONS INTEGRITY OF PERLEMOEN QUOTA PROCESS.
Over half the fishermen who were recently granted permits by the department of environmental affairs to harvest limited quantities of perlemoen (abalone) in South African waters, obtained their quotas on false pretences. This is according to Democratic Alliance sea fisheries spokeswoman Antoinette Versfeld, who told a media briefing at Parliament on Friday that 100 out of a total of 185 perlemoen quotas were questionable. "The allocations should never have been made because these 100 applicants are already employed," she said. It is understood the department received well over 500 applications. One of the criteria it applied in deciding which applicants qualified for a quota is whether they were employed elsewhere, or had another source of income. This was confirmed later on Friday by the department's deputy director-general, Horst Kleinschmidt. He told Sapa: "The way this issue was dealt with is... (if) a limited-rights quota applicant... had another source of income, or another main source of income, then they would have fallen out of the system." The limited-rights perlemoen quota allows its holder to harvest under 850kg of the highly-lucrative resource over a four year period. The main aim of the system is to nurture micro-enterprises that may eventually grow into fully-fledged businesses. The department overhauled the entire rights allocation process for all species of commercial fish, including ...
- Players.(Florida executive appointments)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend May 1, 2001 700+ words
...previously was an economic development specialist for the Florida Department of Commerce. Education -- The fourth president of St. Petersburg...Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm's litigation department. Prior to her 18-month term as under secretary, she was...
- Mission Aborted.(Citrus canker detection from air)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Vogel, Mike May 1, 2001 700+ words
...enough. He says the parties involved also began to fight over who owned the rights to the technology, and that made U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher Tim Gottwald, the program's central scientific authority, skittish. As it turns out, Gottwald...
- Coming Of Age.(long-term care insurance in Florida)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Barnett, Cynthia May 1, 2001 700+ words
...home aren't too worried about this," says Bentley Lipscomb, state director of the AARP and former head of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. "The ones who have are beginning to say 'Where do I sign up?"' for long-term care insurance. The...
- Balancing Form and Function.(architect Guy Peterson)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend May 1, 2001 700+ words
...private home on Sarasota Bay; the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Critical Care Center on South Tamiami Trail; and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement headquarters in Tallahassee. Currently working on a new police station and town hail for Longboat Key...
- ISE Sells Trams To Anaheim.(ISE Research Corp.)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal May 28, 2001 700+ words
...a spokesman for ISE. The project was managed and funded by the city of Anaheim, with additional funding from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee and from a U.S. Department of Transportation grant, he said.
- Temp Services Offer Some Economic Encouragement.(Brief Article)(Statistical...
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal PATTA, GIG May 28, 2001 700+ words
...weaknesses in some industries, but are offset by others. For San Diego County, the California state Employment Development Department reported the county's unemployment rate at 2.7 percent in April, compared to 4.7 percent for all of California. The...
- California Businesses Need Direct Energy Access.(Assembly Bill iX recently...
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal Bahl, Robert May 28, 2001 700+ words
...Such is the case with recently passed legislation -- Assembly Bill iX -- that made the California government, through the Department of Water Resources, the largest electricity buyer in California and directed the California Public Utilities Commission...
- Experience the Power of the Playground -- Teambuilding for Groups.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal Cadwell, Kim May 28, 2001 700+ words
...to common ground and enables them to share common moments. They share a situation. So, even if they work in different departments, with very dissimilar job responsibilities, they now have a collective memory. They were all together; they were a real...