A useful contribution to science or a clumsy yet well-intentioned way of doing damage to fish? Matt Kennedy investigates what the science of fish tagging
What are you doing here? You should be fishing! Spring time means the rivers have thawed, and our bones, soft tissue and muscles are being
The Broederstroom, the small montane stream that flows down the escarpment valleys of South Africa’s Limpopo province, eventually joining the Letaba River, is in the
In February 2022, the Wilge River, was poisoned by a mass influx of acid mine drainage from an abandoned shaft owned by Thungela Resources, a
No, the fish don’t all leave en masse! We’ve all seen those distributing social media clips of people cast-netting for kob and garrick as they
Changing your name on a regular basis is not something one would consider a good life choice. But the gentleman of the sea appears not
If you fish at sea in South Africa – in the surf, from the rocks or in an estuary – you know what a dusky
Dusky kob have dominated Dr JD Filmalter’s work life for the past few years and few in South Africa know the species (and its plight)
JD Filmalter is doing invaluable research on one of SA’s most iconic fish. The man is a mine of information on everything Argyrosomus japonicus. Here he shares some insights:
Ah the garrick, aka ‘leerie’. It’s like the starter game fish that gets so many hooked on the light-tackle and fly game. And then, even
