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Police were busy with patrols on Sunday when they spotted a double cab Ford Ranger and people loading boxes onto a truck.
Officers in the Overberg acted on a tip-off about a vehicle travelling from Buffeljags near Swellendam to Stanford.
The eight suspects were apprehended and taken to Cape Town harbor for processing.
They were cornered in Gqeberha yesterday. When officials pulled over the vehicle, they found 430 kilograms of abalone stashed inside. They're due in court tomorrow according to the Hawk’s Yolisa Mgolodela.
Officials stopped two vehicles on the N7 and found 70 boxes containing more than 23,000 units of dried abalone.
On Monday, the Hawks, in partnership with SAPS and officials from the Environmental, Forestry and Fisheries Department, reacted to information about the transportation of illegal abalone.
Eyewitness News takes a look at what can be done to deal with abalone poaching, which costs the fiscus hundreds of millions of rands every year.
The country's fiscus loses hundreds of millions each year to sophisticated syndicates who illegally exploit the natural resource and experts said that despite ongoing busts, poaching had gotten worse in the last five years.
Despite regular success, abalone poaching remains a thorn in the side of the authorities, with the nation's fiscus losing hundreds of millions of rands to sophisticated syndicates who illegally exploit the natural resource.
Early on Wednesday morning, police were called to a house where a gas bottle exploded.
During a multidisciplinary operation on Monday, officials uncovered an illegal abalone facility in Edgemead.
They were pulled over during a roadblock along the R45 over the weekend.
The alleged poachers were nabbed in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route Park.
Over the past year, more than 400 suspects were arrested for the crime and police confiscated abalone worth at least R130 million in the Western Cape.
Police responded to a tip-off on Thursday afternoon that a white BMW X5 was transporting abalone.
Ten properties were searched and more than 30 people were questioned.
With the Western Cape recording the most abalone seizures in the country between 2014 and 2019, Zokwana has called on fishing communities to assist in police in curbing the crime.
Since December, there have been at least R5 multi-million abalone busts by police and government officials.