COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

MINIMUM SIZE/MASS

BAG LIMITS

CLOSED SEASON

Anchovies

Family Engraulidae

None

Unlimited

Carpenter (silverfish)

Argyrozona argyrozona

35 cm

4

Chub mackerel

Scomber japonicus

None

Unlimited

Garfishes

Family Belonidae

None

Unlimited

Hake (stockfish)

Merluccius capensis and Merulccius paradoxus

None

Unlimited

Halfbeaks

Family Hemiramphidae

None

Unlimited

Horse mackerel / maasbanker

Trachurus trachurus

maasbanker capensis

None

Unlimited

Kob

Argyrosomus spp.

50 cm

5 but may only land or be in possession of one kob > 110 cm per day

Mulletts / harders

Family Mugilidae

None

Unlimited

Sardines (pilchard & red-eye)

Family Clupeidae

None

Unlimited

Sauries

Family Scomberesocidae

None

Unlimited

Scads

Decapterus spp.

None

Unlimited

Snoek (Cape snoek)

Thyrsites atun

60 cm

Unlimited

Squid (Chokka)

Loligo vulgaris

None

20

25 October to 22 November in any year