A South African fishing trawler, the Sandile, was seized by the authorities in Cape Town docks on Tuesday with 300 tons of snoek on board. The vessel was licensed to catch hake, but not snoek. The ...

LAMBERT'S BAY, South Africa – The boats line up along the jetty, bobbing in the cold south Atlantic waters, to bring in the day's catch in the early afternoon. The long, thin silver snoek fish is one ...

Cape Town - The arrest on Tuesday of the Sandile, a deep-sea trawler, for flouting its fishing permit conditions by catching 300 tons of snoek as a by-catch, has focused the debate on whether fishing ...

Both offshore and rock and surf anglers enjoyed some beautiful weather and sea conditions into early last week resulting in some excellent fishing and notable catches. The tropical storm moving down ...

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Salmon is so last season and snoek might be taking its place. A recently published study lauded ...

To date 1,500 parcels have been distributed to assist fishers in the Overberg Region, and Southern Cape from Witsand in the west, to Bitou in the east. From 4 May, registered small-scale fishers in ...

Kevin Tait successfully landed this 5.5kg snoek off Tinley Manor at the weekend. Sardines continued to be netted around Durban last week, including at Snake Park Beach on Saturday. The lingering ...

The snoek-fishing community in the Western and Northern Cape can breathe a sigh of relief after the government announced they would be allowed to take advantage of the snoek run despite the 21-day ...

"Everybody needs the snoek run to make it through the year," Naaim Jacobs, a line fisherman from Lavender Hill who grew up fishing at Kalk Bay harbour, tells GroundUp. The current lockdown regulations ...

Fishers in the Northern Cape and Western Cape have been allowed to travel within and across the province to catch snoek, Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy announced on Friday ...