An edible South African sea bream of shallow waters.
〈南非〉白海鳊
Sparodon and other genera, family Sparidae
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Species such as the seventyfour, red steenbras and musselcracker have been so severely depleted that they represent no more than 5% of their original abundance in linefish catches.
A person may not for recreational purposes in one day harvest more than a total of ten fish comprising any one or more of the following species: blacktail, galjoen, kob, West Coast steenbras and snoek.
What else is there for them to catch other than pilchard, small hake or line-fish such as cob, steenbras or black tail,’ he said.
Garry Rusteberg with a prize 12,95 kg copper steenbras he caught using a mullet hook and line (light tackle) while fishing for live bait off Gonubie Point.
The biggest steenbras will net the winner $3000.
Fish species such as galjoen, white steenbras and spotted grunter that feed within the intertidal zone cannot survive where the beach has been denuded.
Regarding the various catches, the regulations stipulate as follows: The species referred to may not include head and tail, be shorter than 25 cm for blacktail, 30 cm for galjoen, 40 cm for steenbras.
As usual, a fair to strong current was running from north to south, and we let it glide us through the schools of game fish, big-eye jack, yellow-tail jack, Bank steenbras, and mangrove snapper.
The others have noticed increasing numbers of small black and silver steenbras being caught.
Iyambo also announced that some of the line-fish species, such as kob and steenbras, are under pressure.
Having fished from Kei Mouth for 23 years as a skiboat skipper when he saw daily catches of up to 250 kg of black steenbras brought in by one boat; another pulling 90 dageraad off one reef.
Discussing unusually large catches of red steenbras at this time, it was mentioned this was attributable to lack of current along the continental shelf.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Afrikaans, from Dutch steen 'stone' + brasen 'bream'.