Sardine catch limits imposed as fishery reels from mass die-off
Fisheries escape full closure despite uncertainty The department’s Small Pelagic Scientific Working Group (SWG-PEL) met on 4 September to weigh diagnostic results, mortality estimates and fishing data before making its recommendation.
Similar strandings were recorded at Walvis Bay’s Langstrand, Swakopmund and Henties Bay in Namibia, though the department cautioned that it had not confirmed a link to the South African event.
The department suggested warmer inshore waters there may have slowed the shoals’ northward movement during the annual sardine run, but stressed this was “a plausible oceanographic interpretation rather than a confirmed barrier to the mortality event.
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