Poacher

"Locked up for boaching abalone, Shuhood Abader began writing his life story. For over fifteen years, he had been a small cog in a criminal industry stretching from the Cape underworld to China's luxury seafood market. As abalone--perlemoen, perly--vanishes from the South African coast, Shuhood's first-person account takes us right into the heart of the crisis. Kimon de Greef's postgraduate research on poaching led him into journalism, and today he is the pre-eminent local expert on the illicit abalone trade. He contextualises Abader's raw tale by showing how the system works: from desperate fishing communities via gang strongholds on the Cape Flats, tik or meth, guns and police complicity to the harbours of Morocco and Hong Kong."--Page 4 of cover.