Sustainable Fishing – SASSI Red List
There are groups of fish that are unsustainable as well as those that are illegal to sell. Some of the species on the red list are important recreational fishing types and can only be caught for enjoyment and use. In order to qualify to keep the fish you landed in Hermanus and other fishing spots in the Overberg it is important to have a fishing license.
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 red list is the most unsustainable, here are the fish that you aren’t allowed to buy or sell…
Baardman (No sale species)
Banded galjoen (No sale species)
Blacktail (No sale species)
Brindle bass (No sale species)
Bronze bream (No sale species)
Carpenter (Inshore demersal trawl)
Striped catshark (No sale species)
Dageraad (Linefishery)
Elf (Linefishery – KZN)
Galjoen (No sale species)
Garrick (No sale species)
Geelbek (Inshore demersal trawl)
Argentine hake -(Bottom trawled)
Jacopever (Inshore demersal trawl)
Janbruin (No sale species)
Kingfish (No sale species)
Cape knifejaw (No sale species)
Natal knifejaw (No sale species)
Dusky kob (Linfishery, inshore demersal trawl)
Silver kob (Inshore demersal trawl)
Squartail kob (Shallow water prawn trawl)
Black mussel cracker (No sale species)
Natal wrasse (No sale species)
Panga (Inshore demersal trawl)
Pompano – Southern, Largespot (No sale species)
Potato bass (No sale species)
River bream (No sale species)
River snapper (No sale species)
White edged rock cod (Linefishery)
Yellowbelly rock cod (Linefishery)
Sawfish (No sale species)
Scotsman (Linefishery)
Seventy four seabream (No sale species)
Smoothhound shark (Inshore demersal trawl)
Soupfin shark (Inshore demersal trawl)
St Joseph shark (Inshore demersal trawl)
Skates (Inshore demersal trawl)
Spotted grunter (No sale species)
Spotted gully shark (No sale species)
Springer (No sale species)
Red steenbras (No sale species)
West coast steenbras (No sale species)
White steenbras (No sale species)
Stonebream (No sale species)
Cape & Natal stumpnose (No sale species)
Red stumpnose (Linefishery)
White stumpnose (Inshore demersal trawl)
Albacore tuna (Imported)
Bigeye tuna (Imported longline)
Bluefin tuna (All regions)
Skipjack tuna (Imported longline)
Yellowfin tuna (Imported longline)
Zebra (No sales species)
Source: Sassi
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different. – Rafael Nadal