Monitoring of Endangered, Threatened and Protected (ETP) species landed in five major South African fisheries

Aim:

Identify Endangered, Threatened and Protected (ETP) species caught, mostly as bycatch, in five major South African commercial fisheries, including the hake inshore trawl, the hake offshore trawl, the hake longline, the horse mackerel midwater trawl, and the tuna and swordfish longline fisheries.

Results:

A review of scientific literature, governmental reports and other grey literature, and onboard observer data was conducted, and an assessment of the target and bycatch species reportedly caught in each of the five fisheries was made. The conservation and protection status of each species caught was reviewed, and any ETP species caught in each of the five fisheries were identified. An index was developed to determine those ETP species at higher risk of becoming overfished.

Project Implementer

Associate Professor Colin Attwood and Laura Weston (University of Cape Town)

Monitoring-of-ETP-species-in-SA-fisheries-2018.pdf

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