Sustainable Fishing – Orange List
Hooked a large fish while salt water fishing in Hermanus? Know your fish species to determine if they are classed under SASSI’s sustainable fishing list. The fish that fall under the orange list are species that have been overfished or because the method of fishing can cause damage to the surrounding environment .
The species that is found on the orange list can be sold by large retailers and commercial fisheries. Sadly, if the demand for these fish increases it could very well compromise the sustainable supply.
Fishing methods:
Pure Seining – involves the use of a large net to encircle shoaling fish.
Demersal trawling – also known as bottom trawling or dragging, is one of the most widely used industrial fishing methods around the world. It involves towing a large net across the seabed targetting the species that live on the sea bottom.
Line fishery is one of the oldest fisheries in South Africa and operates from both small boats or from the shore. Linefishing is done with either a handline or a rod and reel, which must have less than 10 hooks per line.
Demersal longlining is also known as bottom longlining and is one of the major industrial fishing methods used around the world. Longlines can be up to 100km long with as many as 20 000 baited hooks.
Jigging is a specialised method used to target squid or tjokka, which is also known as calamari. Squid are attracted to boats at night by powerful lights and caught with barbed lures that are halued vertically through the water.
The orange list has fish that are cause for concern, people are encourage to understand the implications of their choices when it comes to buy, selling and eating these species…
Abalone (Farmed & collected)
Carpenter (Linefishery)
Cat fish – African sharptooth (Farmed)
Dory (Inshore & offshore demersal trawl)
Englishman (Linefishery)
Geelberk (Linefishery)
Gurnard (Inshore demersal trawl)
Hake (Deep water and shallow water longline)
Harders (Beach seine)
Jacopever (Offshore demersal trawl)
Kingklip (Demersal longline & demersal trawl)
Dusky kob (Farmed in ‘at’ sea cages)
Silver kob (Linefishery)
Sqauretail kob (Linefishery)
King mackerel (Linefishery)
New Zealand Ling (Offshore demersal trawl and longline)
Panga (Linefishery & offshore demersal trawl)
Pangasius (Farmed)
Prawns – All species
Red roman (Linefishery)
West coast rock lobster (traps & pots)
East coast rock lobster (hand collection)
Cat face rock cod (Linefishery)
Atlantic salmon (Farmed)
Smoothhound shark (Linefishery)
Soupfin shark (Linefishery)
Skates (Demersal longline, offshore demersal trawl)
Slinger (Linefishery)
East coast sole (Inshore demersal trawl)
White stumpnose (Linefishery)
Swordfish – South Africa, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (Pelagic longline)
Albacore tuna (Local longline)
Big eye tuna (Local longline)
Skipjack tuna (FAD associated pure seine, local longline)
Yellowfin tuna (Local longline)
Yellowtail (Farmed in ‘at’ sea cages)
Source: SASSI
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