Marine Recreational Fishing - Regulations for Linefishing

MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHING Regulations For Linefishing 1. Closed seasons: Elf/Shad: 1 September to 30 November in any year, both dates inclusive. Galjoen: 15 October of one year to the last day of February in the following year, both dates inclusive. Chokka: 25 October to 22 November in any year, both dates inclusive. 2. No fish may be sold or offered for sale. 3. No person may catch and retain more than 20 squid per day. 4. No sport angler or spearfisher may sell or offer any fish for sale. 5. Fish must be measured in a straight line along the side from the tip of the snout to the extreme end of the tail or caudal fin. 6. Any person above the age of 12 years needs to obtain a recreational angling permit. Children under the age of 12 years have been exempted from obtaining a permit for recreational angling. For more information phone: (021) 402-3911 or consult the Amended Regulations (R24 of 14 January 2000) in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 BAG & SIZE LIMITS SPECIALLY PROTECTE D LIST CRITICAL LIST RESTRICTED LIST EXPLOITABLE LIST RECREATIONAL LIST BAIT LIST SIZE RESTRICTION MASS RESTRICTION Bag limit: No fish may be taken in this category. Bag limit: 2 per person per day Bag limit: 5 per person per day Bag limit: 10 in total per person per day Bag limit: 10 in total but only 5 of the same species per person per day Unlimited Brindle bass Potato bass Natal wrasse Great white shark Saw fishes Seventy-four Poenskop Red steenbras Bludger Blue hottentot Dageraad Dane Elf/Shad Englishman Hake Kob (salmon, squaretail, daga) Red stumpnose Rock cods # Roman Scotsman Slinger West Coast steenbras Zebra Blueskin Cape gurnard Cape snoek Cape yellowtail Carpenter/Silverfish Dorado/Dolphinfish Elasmobranchs # (excluding Great white shark, Ragged tooth shark, Spotted gulley shark, Leopard and Striped catshark) Geelbek Hottentot Javelin grunter King mackerel/Couta Panga Queen mackerel/Natal snoek Red tjor-tjor Sand soldier Santer (Soldier) Snapper salmon Tunas # White stumpnose Squaretail kob Baardmans Banded galjoen Billfishes # Blacktail Bronze bream Cape knifejaw Cape stumpnose Galjoen Garrick/Leervis John Brown Kingfish # (excluding Bludger) Large-spot pompano Leopard catshark Natal knifejaw Ragged tooth shark River bream River snapper Southern pompano Springer Spotted grunter Spotted gully shark Stonebream Striped catshark Swordfish White musselcracker White steenbras Natal Stompneus Anchovies # Chub mackerel # Fransmadam # Garfishes # Glassies Half beaks # Horse mackerel Mullets # Pinky Sardines # Sauries # Scads # Steentjie Strepie Cutlassfish Wolfherring 2.5cm: Glassy 7.5cm: Pinky 15cm: Strepie 20cm: Cape stumpnose, Dassie/Blactail 22cm: Hottentot 25cm: Natal stumpnose River bream, Carpenter/Silverfish, Slinger, White stumpnose 30cm: Bronze bream, Dageraad, Elf/Shad, Roman, Santer/Soldier, Scotsman, Red stumpnose, Zebra 35cm: Galjoen, Squaretail kob 40cm: Bellman, Kob, Red steenbras, River snapper, Seventy-four, Spotted grunter, West Coast steenbras, Spotted rock cod, White-edged rock cod, Yellowbelly rock cod, 50cm: Poenskop, 60cm: Geelbek, Musselcracker, Snoek, White steenbras 70cm: Garrick/Leervis 3.2 kg: Bigeye tuna, Yellowfin tuna 6.4 kg: Bluefin tuna 25 kg: Swordfish The # indicates that the regulations apply to all species belonging to the group. NOTE: Adjustments might be forthcoming in the near future given the acknowledgement of the crisis of linefish