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Big Swell Building from the South 15 August 2024 and Sardines Spotted on the KZN South Coast

BIG Swells Building from the South 15 August 2024

Big Swell Building from the South 15 August 2024 and Sardines Spotted on the KZN South Coast

Big Swell Building from the South 15 August 2024 and Sardines Spotted on the KZN South Coast: It’s never over ’til it’s over!

More sardines have made the perilous journey up from the Cape and have been spotted at Shelley Beach and Uvongo over the last 24 hours.

Over to Adam in Durban…

Netters

This might not be enough to entice the netters back into action. Especially with the building swell that is said reach over 4 meters out at sea. It’s a strong south direction and so at the moment is missing the piers in Durban completely.

So maybe the netters will be fortunate enough to have more sardines come around the corner and into the shelter of the bay. Where it’s far easier to get at them.

Durban AM Gallery

Shad

There will definitely be shad following those sardines spotted and hopefully this is gonna be a turning point and the shad will come back on the bite. Unless they have all been caught already?! Since DAFF under the ANC were a complete joke and it was a free-for-all for quite a few years.

However, now that there are a new bunch in charge, DAFF has reportedly been quite active. And after some valid public confrontation, they might even be picking on the real criminals.

And who would be in charge of policing the litterbugs that leave a world of rubbish behind when the shad come on the bite? I wonder if that is a DAFF responsibility? Because if it is, what a fail!

Big Seas

Although it is thankfully neap tides, these impending waves are going to be big enough to cause the odd storm surge. Be especially careful near river mouths. It’s not really a swimming day.

Dead Whales

It’s that time of the year again when the odd dead whale rolls in onto the beach. I saw photographs and some video of two of them at Peace Cottage on the KZN north coast yesterday and I could see no sign of shark net lacerations. It is just especially sad that it was a mother and newborn calf.

I never saw any pics of the other one further south but if you guys ever do become unlucky enough to witness such sadness, please take photos. Shark nets help nobody by killing marine wildlife willy-nilly every day with complete impunity. Whilst nobody is actually in the water hardly ever anyway.

Anyway, they could at least consider removing all the nets during the whale migration. Which continues until November or so. Then carry on killing in December and through summer?

This next story happened recently, take a look if you care about rare and endangered marine wildlife. This is not an isolated incident.

Death by Shark Net? – The Sardine News

Sardine Maps

Having intel to make the right decisions can save you hours and hours of frivolous sardine hunting. We have taken great care to log the activity of each sardine run since 2021. These records are available for anyone to look at.

If you study the maps year to year, you will see that right now we are only just in the middle of good sardine conditions. And that in previous years catches were made right into the summer months.

Sardine Map 2024

Sardine Map 2023

Sardine Map 2021