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Sardines are here

Sardines are here

Date: 2018-06-22

The annual sardine run has begun in KwaZulu Natal and the fisherman on the South Coast has a bumper weekend filling hundreds of crates of sardines on the coast. KZN may be in for a bumper, early sardine run.

The North Coast has had many sightings of the fish, however nothing like the South Coast, with many fisherman out and about trying to net this local delicacy.

The KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board has removed its nets between Scottburgh and Port Edward, and is looking to remove more as the sardines move up the coast.

"We do this so we don't catch the dolphins, Cape gannets and sharks following the sardines," said KZN Sharks Board head of operations, Mike Anderson-Reade.

He said it was exciting to see the sardines along the KZN coast as they had not been seen in large numbers for a number of years.

"It is very difficult to try to predict when and if this spectacle will reach KZN, and the timeline could be anything from a few days to possibly a week or two. Should the fish continue northwards, it appears that we may be in for one of the better sardine runs seen in a long while," he said.