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Poacher : confessions from the abalone underworld / Kimon de Greef and Shuhood Abader.

Title
Poacher : confessions from the abalone underworld / Kimon de Greef and Shuhood Abader.
Author
De Greef, Kimon,
Publication
Cape Town : Kwela Books, 2018.

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Additional Authors
Abader, Shuhood,
Description
223 pages; 20 cm
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Abader, Shuhood
  • Abalone industry
  • Abalones > South Africa
  • Abalones
  • Poachers > South Africa > Biography
  • Poachers
  • Poaching > South Africa
  • Poaching
  • South Africa
Genre/Form
Biography.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 219).
ISBN
  • 079570867X
  • 9780795708688 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780795708695 (canceled/invalid)
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries