Regulations for Fishing of West Coast Rock
Lobster
Permit needed. Permits can be obtained from local post offices.
MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2003:
The new season for recreational fishing
of West Coast rock lobster will open on
15 November 2003 and will close on 1
February 2004. From 15 November 2003 to
31 December 2003 fishing will be allowed
every day of the week, but from 1
January 2004 to 1 February 2004 fishing
will be restricted to weekends only, the
Minister of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism, Mohammed Valli Moosa, has
announced today.
The shorter recreational
fishing season forms part of the
Department's stock rebuilding strategy
to maintain a successful recovery
process, which had been instituted after
the resource had been depleted as a
result of over fishing during the first
half of the 20th century associated with
changing environmental conditions.
The bag limit is four (4)
lobsters per person per day and the size
restriction is 80 mm carapace length.
Fishing for West Coast rock lobster will
be limited from 8:00 till 16:00 on the
days open for fishing.
No person catching west
coast rock lobster with a recreational
West Coast rock lobster permit may sell
it. Any West Coast rock lobster caught,
collected or transported must be kept in
a whole state.
A maximum of 20 rock
lobsters may be transported per day, on
condition that all the persons who
caught such rock lobster are present in
the vehicle, vessel or aircraft during
transportation, and that such persons
are in possession of recreational rock
lobster permits.
West Coast rock lobster
permits will only be sold to persons
above the age of 12 years.
MARINE
RECREATIONAL FISHING
General Reculations
1. No person
shall, except on authority of a recreational
permit obtaineble from South African Postal
Services, engage in recreational fishing.
2. No person shall
sell, barter or trade any fish caught
through recreational fishing.
3. No recreational
fishing permit is transferable form one
person to another.
4. A persona of a
recreational permit shall not use any
artificial breathing apparatus, other than a
snorkel.
5. No person shall,
engage in fishing, collect or disturb any
fish by means of a gaff, club, flail, stick,
stone or similar implement.
6. No person shall
engage in fishing, except for octopus,
cuttlefish or squid, by the jerking of a
hook or jig in the sea jigging, with the
intention of imp.....
7. No person shall
engage in the fishing collection or
disturbing of any fish with a speargun in a
tidal river or tidal lagoon.
8. No person shall use
any cast net for fishing form sunset to
sunrise.
9. No person shall
disturb, catch, kill or be in possession of
any dolphin or any part or product derived
thereof.
10. No person shall,
except with the authority of a permit,
disturb, catch or kill any whales at any
time, or approach closer than 300m to a
whale.
11. No person shall,
except with the authority of a permit,
attract by using bait or any other means,
any great white sharks, or catch, attempt to
catch, kill or attempt to kill any great
white shark, or purchase, sell or offer for
sale any part or product derived thereof.
12. No person shall,
except with the authority of a permit,
damage, uproot, collect or land or attempt
to damage, uproot, collect or land any live
or dead coral.
13. No person shall,
except with the authority of a permit,
engage in fishing, collecting or disturbing
any live or empty pansy shell.
14. No person shall,
except with the authority of a permit,
engage in fishing, collecting or removing
any aquatic plants, except for own use and
in quantitties not exceeding 1
No vehicles are allowed on beaches.
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