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Umzimkulu Turtle Trap featuring HUGO Fishing #ugu #anc #municipality #bridge #umzimkulu

Umzimkulu Turtle Trap featuring HUGO Fishing #ugu #anc #municipality #bridge #umzimkulu

Umzimkulu Turtle Trap featuring HUGO Fishing #ugu #anc #municipality #bridge #umzimkulu

Umzimkulu Turtle Trap featuring HUGO Fishing #ugu #anc #municipality #bridge #umzimkulu: HUGO Fishing has been documenting the plight of a turtle stuck in the inadvertently built fish trap in the Umzimkulu Mouth right now…

good early morning welcome back
I wonder if you caught the breakfast show
even earlier than this this morning
we’re gonna try and keep that up but okay
luckily every now and then
we meet someone who’s very
considerate and careful and caring about nature
and this guy Hugo certainly is
he discovered something a bit disturbing
and we’re only here to report
we’re not here to give opinions or anything like that
but there is quite simply a fact here
that there’s turtles stuck in that
what you gonna call it
I don’t know what you gonna call it
looks like a fish trap to me
this is a genuine
look at the shape and match the two up here
that’s a fish trap you know
they made a fish trap
now these turtles are getting stuck inside there anyway
I’m just gonna let Hugo play out these two videos
hey Hugo
thank you ever so much I’m gonna send this to Ori
we’re gonna try and find out what we can possibly do
to stop the poor okes getting stuck in there
we’re gonna put a sign up for the turtles that say
go to the other mouth now because we’re busy here
you know we’re gonna be busy here for the whole time
and now you can’t come through your own river alright
thank you very much hugo
this is the pylon that they want to fix this one here
you can see how it’s actually sagged
so this is the one that they want to fix
now what is the ocean doing
what is the sea doing they’ve blocked it off here
and it looks like if it’s a continual thing oh
here’s a big turtle look at this turtle guys
I just hopefully it’s on video
but just came out now
I think what he wants to do is to come up in the river
but now he can’t let’s see if he’s gonna come up again
hmm if I only had a breath hold like that alright so now
um
they are still closing this here
so the
the vehicles are crossing onto the sea from this side
now they are crossing so now
they are
creating a
a retainer cause
now the sea is coming to take away all of the sand
again so they’re creating a retainer
so the sand must stay here
there’s a turtle turtles right there right there
so this is what it is looking at
these guys are driving it’s a proper wall here
and they going to open up
uh pylon 1
2 they can open up 3
try and open up 3 pylons for the sea to go for
for for the estuary to go out
but see there on that side
the parking area is already flooded
all the parking area there is already flooded
yeah so that’s it for today
it’s a like a long one there up and down
oh I feel so sorry for him anyways
he’s gonna come up now yeah he comes up
there he is there
there he is there sorry my boy
Ei
he’s stuck in this little
supposed to go back into the river
hey thank you
Hugo for going to all that effort
and going back down there again this morning
to find the same guy in that
in that thing whatever you wanna call it
but yeah thank you
Hugo we gonna all support Hugo’s channel
Hugo Fishing on YouTube there
gonna go there and push this subscribe button and say
thank you very much for for these videos here
and please keep it up Hugo
and anybody else who got some cool stuff like this
where we can help
get in touch with authorities and try and
and make a bit of a difference
wherever we can just send us the information yeah
just like Hugo did this is gonna go straight to Orion
whoever else I can find to to sort this out okay lekka
like and subscribe Ciao ciao

Sardines and Sighting Maps

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps. With instructions on how to install The Sardine News right on your phone, tablet, or even desktop.

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

Channels

Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining  surf reporting

Master Watermen – news from way down deep

The Sardine News – neva miss a single  sardine

FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus

MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical  sport fishing

Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely

Water Woes – complain about your municipality here

Websites

umzimkulu.co.za – everything Umzimkulu
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single  sardine
masterwatermen.co.za – news from under water
fishbazaruto.com – dreams
brucifire.co.za – surf retorts

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East is gonna BLOW in KZN Today by Adam Kamdar in Durban

East is gonna BLOW in KZN Today by Adam Kamdar in Durban

East is gonna BLOW in KZN Today by Adam Kamdar in Durban

East is gonna BLOW in KZN Today by Adam Kamdar in Durban: Although these big east winds might wreck the ocean completely, they do make for really lekker summer weather. KZN is gonna bask in typical Natal summer conditions all day today. With a welcome sea breeze as the day heats up.

Over to Adam, on the spot in Durban…

Thank you Adam! Check out Township Hyper’s Black November promotions right HERE on their Facebook page.

Surfing

Unless you want to go surfing of course. The waves completely break down when this wind blows. Durban in particular gets shut down fast with it’s north facing beaches. The south and north coasts are much the same although there are some places you can find a nook or cranny to hide away in. And catch some unruly waves leftover from the last few days big ocean.

Fishing

Same story…we are right at the end of the winter gamefish season. Garrick, kob, brusher and snoek still hanging around and enjoying the somewhat stable conditions we are in right now.

22 Days until Shad Season opens!

Township Hyper are running their Black November promotions on their Facebook Page which is available at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064584376009.

Diving

Nothing to report at the moment but The Bear will be checking in with his Friday weekend dive and conditions report later this afternoon.

Synoptic

Aside from an ominous-looking low pressure sneaking across the landmass from the west, we seem to be ok for weather and wind for the weekend. That low is hemmed in on both sides by 1024 grade high-pressures indicating some stability to rely on.

The next cold front will hit Cape Town tomorrow and over the weekend. So we look to be clear of moisture-rich air until that front reaches us next week. It looks to be quite a serious front with a long reach right up to the continent this time. And should arrive Wednesday or so. The little South West puff we are gonna get on Saturday afternoon is a result of the little low-pressure hanging about. This is gonna make for a magnificent Sunday.

And of course – Monday!

Sardines and Sighting Maps

It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 191,000 times and just keeps growing.

Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado! And recently a capsized KZNSB boat! We have been updating the map with recent catches too…

These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.

Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

Channels

Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining  surf reporting

Master Watermen – news from way down deep

The Sardine News – neva miss a single  sardine

FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus

MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical  sport fishing

Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely

Water Woes – complain about your municipality here

Websites

umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there

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Geelbek Salmon at night

Geelbek Salmon at night: with umzimkulu.co.za

A great evening out on the Niteshift, with John van Reenen and Elvis Olimpio as crew…

“Winter time is Geelbek time, and although the ‘Bek do feed during the day time, night time, is the right time.

So when conditions do play along, and the surf is small…and the tides are right, and the Umzimkulu Mouth acts like a harbour…and it lets us out for a 3 or 4 hour window.
The night previous had produced nothing but an Englishman, and we had a lot of trouble with the anchor at Boboyi…there must be so many anchor ropes and chains down there, after all these years!
But the current did turn out to be be very slack…so this last night we used the conditions to buzz around all the spots we could, sounding around…and dropping baits, to see where these Geelbek have been hiding.
There was heaps of bioluminescence in the water, and fishing on the seaward side of the boat, John Fever and I both clearly saw a white mushroom cloud burst up silently into the total blackness, some distance in front of us?! All sorts of thoughts. And then the sound…it was a whale exhaling, the cloud of air illuminated with bioluminescence. The things you see at sea at night?!
But no fish at this stage. Nothing. So after scouring the Port Shepstone reefs, the Old Man, on a hunch, took us 4 miles south through whale infested water…to one of his very first Geelbek stomping grounds.
The new Garmin CHIRP system on the Niteshift, is so powerful, it picks out our baits! So when we we got our first showing of red, the anchor went straight down.
And spot on. Dad goes away immediately. We found them!
I got one next, but on my next down something huge took my middle bait, and after a huge tug-of-war, my trace broke on the snootie?!
Then Elvis starting making weird noises as the biggest Geelbek of the night tried to pull him overboard.
By this time my Dad had his quote of two, so he helped Fever catch two more. I had more trouble, this time with a shark, and that’s how I ended up. Then just before our safe window of conditions were up, Elvis’ rod doubled over…but he made short work of the fish this time…which turned out to be half a fish. Tax.
Then the huge shape appeared around the anchor rope…milky white in the ultra clean and flourescent, phosperous water. It might have been a great white for it’s size, and it leered up at us circling underneath…breaking the water with it’s tail a few times, in some sort of defiant  gesture.
The whales had also been barking at us some more, we were surrounded on a few occasions, so we pulled anchor and hightailed it into the outgoing tide at the Umzimkulu River.
Total fish – 7.5!
A hard days night!”

For more information on the Umzimkulu Marina…click here.

Or check out their current promotion…

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Check out the catch and cook series on thesardine.co.za for how to best savour the flavours of Geelbek Salmon…

And a gallery of photos…

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First stone laid for new Maputo fish market

First stone laid for new Maputo fish market

by John Hughes (AIM)

Maputo, 3 Jul (AIM) – Mozambique’s Minister of Fisheries, Victor Borges, on Thursday laid the first stone for the construction of the new Maputo fish market.

The market will have a hundred fish stalls with refrigerated storage to conserve the produce and a restaurant area.

The project is budgeted at 11.3 million US dollars, of which 8.6 million will be provided by the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The Maputo Municipal Council will provide 1.4 million dollars, with the remaining funds coming from the Mozambican government.

Speaking during the ceremony, the minister said that artisanal fishing in Mozambique makes up over 85 per cent of the fishing sector, with the rest being composed of aquiculture and industrial fishing. Borges added that the artisanal sub-sector produced 196,000 tonnes of fish last year out of a total production of 220,000 tonnes.

The minister said the quality and safety of the fish will be checked in the laboratory of the National Institute of Fish Inspection (INIP).

Borges stated that the country currently only has one internationally accredited laboratory, situated in Maputo. However, two laboratories, in the central cities of Beira and Quelimane, are in the process of being accredited, with a third laboratory planned for the northern city of Nacala.

Maputo’s mayor David Simango pointed out that the fish market is the capital city’s third major public construction project currently underway. Work is already taking place on the Maputo Ring Road and the capital’s coastal defences.

(AIM)

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