Close to 700 unemployed fishermen at Walvis Bay have secured permanent and full-time jobs at four fishing companies.

This follows an agreement signed by the Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister with the companies recently.

The fishermen were part of the mass resignations witnessed at Walvis Bay in August last year.

Over 600 resigned because they were not happy with being paid the N$4,000 monthly allowance while they had no active jobs.

The more than 600 fishermen who allegedly resigned from the Cavema Joint Venture at Walvis Bay have appealed to the government to give them active employment instead of a monthly allowance.

The Ministries of Fisheries and Labour, together with the joint venture, reached an agreement in 2020 to employ the fishermen in exchange for quotas.

The workers were responding to Derek Klazen, the Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, who urged them to withdraw their alleged resignation from Cavema.