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You need to have a licence to fish or to collect molluscs (mussels, periwinkels/alikreukel etc) sea worms and sea plants. Kreef (West coast rock lobster commonly called crayfish) have very limited seasons that usually stretch from late November to April but are limited to specific days mostly around Christmas and Easter).
Traditionally the permits were available at a post office. Currently the online system is working and it is recommended that you register on line and apply for your permit on the Dept Forestry, Fisheries and Environment website. They have a specific page for permit applications and payment www.fisheries.dffe.gov.za Download the pdf below describing how to use the online system.
The Marine Recreational Fishing Brochure gives details of the regulations and also provides lists of permitted specieis and some illustrations of fish and shellfish.
Traditionally the permits were available at a post office. Currently the online system is working and it is recommended that you register on line and apply for your permit on the Dept Forestry, Fisheries and Environment website. They have a specific page for permit applications and payment www.fisheries.dffe.gov.za Download the pdf below describing how to use the online system.
The Marine Recreational Fishing Brochure gives details of the regulations and also provides lists of permitted specieis and some illustrations of fish and shellfish.
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Alikreukel - periwinkels - Littorena littoria - are popular - they can be tough but very good when cooked correctly and minced
The mussels along Rooiels are mainly those that are alien, brought in on the hulls of ships and common in Belgium (Mytilus galloprovincialis) but there are also some locally indigenous mussels (Perna perna) among them and apparently the alien species, while taking over from the local, may not further extend its range.
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Crayfish Season 2017-2018
The 2017/18 WCRL recreational fishing season will open on Saturday, 2 December 2017 and will close on Monday, 2 April 2018. Based on the unchanged TAC of 69.2 tons for the recreational fishing sector, the 2017/18 WCRL recreational fishing effort will remain at 21 days and will be split as follows, following consultations:
· Fishing allowed from 2 December 2017 to 3 December from 9 December 2017 to 10 December from 16 December 2017 to 17 December from 23 December 2017 to 26 December from 30 December 2017 to 1 January 2018 (3 days) · from 6 January 2018 to 7 January 2018 from 13 January 2018 to 14 January 2018 from 30 March 2018 to 2 April 2018
Attention is also drawn to Regulation 51, issued under the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998 (MLRA), which provides that only persons over the age of 12 years may obtain from any authorized office, a recreational fishing permit to engage in fishing, collecting, keeping, controlling, landing or transporting of, or to be in possession of not more than four WCRL per day subject to the payment of permit as determined by the Minister under section 25 of the MLRA and published under Government Notice No. 795 in Government Gazette No. 33518 of 10 September 2010. Permits are valid for the entire west coast rock lobster recreational fishing season.
Fishing times for WCRL will be from 08h00 until 16h00 and the bag limit is four per person per day and the size restriction is 80 millimetres carapace length. No person catching WCRL with a recreational fishing permit may sell his/her catch and any WCRL caught, collected or transported must be kept in a whole state. A maximum of 20 WCRL’s may be transported per day on condition that all the persons who caught such WCRL’s are present in the vehicle, vessel or aircraft during transportation and that such persons are in possession of WCRL recreational fishing permits.
Recreational west coast rock lobster permits are obtainable at the Post Office -- with so few post offices now open it is now more common to use the online system - see above.
For further information please contact: Wendy West, Deputy Director: Large Crustaceans Fisheries Management Directorate: Inshore Fisheries Management Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Phone: +27 021 402 3120 or on +27 076 128 2245 E-mail: [email protected] Issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, www.daff.gov.za
The 2017/18 WCRL recreational fishing season will open on Saturday, 2 December 2017 and will close on Monday, 2 April 2018. Based on the unchanged TAC of 69.2 tons for the recreational fishing sector, the 2017/18 WCRL recreational fishing effort will remain at 21 days and will be split as follows, following consultations:
· Fishing allowed from 2 December 2017 to 3 December from 9 December 2017 to 10 December from 16 December 2017 to 17 December from 23 December 2017 to 26 December from 30 December 2017 to 1 January 2018 (3 days) · from 6 January 2018 to 7 January 2018 from 13 January 2018 to 14 January 2018 from 30 March 2018 to 2 April 2018
Attention is also drawn to Regulation 51, issued under the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998 (MLRA), which provides that only persons over the age of 12 years may obtain from any authorized office, a recreational fishing permit to engage in fishing, collecting, keeping, controlling, landing or transporting of, or to be in possession of not more than four WCRL per day subject to the payment of permit as determined by the Minister under section 25 of the MLRA and published under Government Notice No. 795 in Government Gazette No. 33518 of 10 September 2010. Permits are valid for the entire west coast rock lobster recreational fishing season.
Fishing times for WCRL will be from 08h00 until 16h00 and the bag limit is four per person per day and the size restriction is 80 millimetres carapace length. No person catching WCRL with a recreational fishing permit may sell his/her catch and any WCRL caught, collected or transported must be kept in a whole state. A maximum of 20 WCRL’s may be transported per day on condition that all the persons who caught such WCRL’s are present in the vehicle, vessel or aircraft during transportation and that such persons are in possession of WCRL recreational fishing permits.
Recreational west coast rock lobster permits are obtainable at the Post Office -- with so few post offices now open it is now more common to use the online system - see above.
For further information please contact: Wendy West, Deputy Director: Large Crustaceans Fisheries Management Directorate: Inshore Fisheries Management Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Phone: +27 021 402 3120 or on +27 076 128 2245 E-mail: [email protected] Issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, www.daff.gov.za
Fish, Kreef and all the other non-mammalian sea animals
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Ral Meredith reported that a sole was found in the lagoon unable to get back to the sea.
Heteromycteris capensis - the ‘Cape Sole’ - RooiEls - 7. 2. 2016 Message from Ral Meredith: “During the 1980’s Bruce Relly, who is a resident of Rooiels, told of an event which had taken place in about 1983, when he was walking along the beach,and saw a Cape Clawless Otter running across the sand carrying an object in its mouth. He decided to give chase, and the Otter then dropped the item, which, upon inspection, was found to be a Sole ! Being rather partial to Sole, Bruce took the prize home and cooked it for breakfast ! This was an astonishing story, but clearly accurate. What it did, was (a) establish that Soles were present in the Rooiels estuary, (b) establish that Otters , include Soles as part of their diet, along with many other fish and shellfish. In a 2016 Survey some information was given about the species recorded in Rooiels Historical studies of the icthyofauna of the Rooiels River estuary include surveys conducted in 1968, 1978, 1979 and 1981 Estuarine and Coastal Research Unity surveys. These surveys recorded six species including estuarine resident and estuary-dependent marine species. Harrison (1999), sampled the estuary in 1994 when the mouth was open, recording four species with the southern mullet dominating these samples. A total of nine species were caught in the 2016 survey, bringing the total number of species recorded for the estuary to date to ten. Small white steenbras were found recruiting to the Rooiels River estuary as this endangered sparid is known to undertake spawning migrations to the Eastern Cape, which is thought to be the only spawning area. No freshwater species were recorded in any of the surveys, but this may reflect the relatively high salinities in the areas that were sampled. Sampling further upstream may reveal the presence of some indigenous or alien freshwater fish. For the first time since August 1986, and up to 6th Feb 2016, the Rooiels river was seen to have stopped flowing into the sea. The `lagoon ‘ was now a still stretch of water cut off by about 50 meters of sand to the shoreline. The water in the lagoon was warm and contained a great deal of aAlgae. One of our family members, Richard Berg, mentioned that he had seen a Sole ,motionless, in a puddle adjoining the still water of the lagoon. The writer collected the Sole, placing it in a plastic bag before putting it into the deep freeze. There was no hint of decay .This fish weighs 250 grams, its length is 27.5 cms, and its width, with pectoral and dorsal fins not extended is 10.3 cms. It is brown in colour on its upper side, but with fine darker dots which resemble dark sand. It is near white on its underside. This record suggests that the Cape Sole is an inhabitant of the Rooiels estuary. Professor Charles Griffiths of the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT, has suggested that the fish possibly succumbed due to high levels of fresh water in the lagoon. He explained that if fresh water was still flowing in from the catchment area of the Rooiels river, the accumulating fresh water forces the saline water out towards the sea lowering the salinity to a point where marine fish die. The CSIR Report 1982 Griffiths “Estuaries of theCape ,” number 8. CSIR report 407 part 2 report no 8 ( CSW10)”. This report contains many interesting observations. In one instance: December 1979- ` During the ECRU survey in Dec 1979, no water was flowing out to the sea at low tide.’ [ It would be interesting to know how many times the river has ceased to flow into the sea in the last 100 years ! ]. What is of particular interest is the listing of aquatic fauna found in the river. One specimen of Heteromycteriscapensis- the Cape sole - is listed. The only other fish from the river mentioned in the table was Lithognathusmormyrus, the `Sand steenbras.’ In 1968 GF van Wykaslo netted White Steenbras, Gobies and Harders. In 1978 S.Grindley recorded Psasmmagobiusknysnaensis (Knysna sand-goby) Heteromyteriscapensis (Cape sole) Lithognathusmormyrus (Sand steenbras) and Hepsetiabreviceps (now Atherinabreviceps – the Cape silverside). The CSIR report is worth reading , especially for those who may be interested in the finer points relating to RooiEls, its fauna , flora and all the scientific information of the area that has been presented. There will, hopefully, be more information in regard to the status of the Cape Sole in our estuary in due course.” Click here to link to the CSIR Report 1982 |
