Fish Species Research & Recordings Between Bushman's & Fish River - Kenton, Kleinemonde, Kasouga, Port Alfred
The main goal of this
Eastern Cape coastal
research project focuses around the fish species of the area; their
habits, growth, maximum sizes, depth selection, vulnerability, habitat,
preferred food and recording information on new species, rare species
and adding valuable data to current information. This page is where all
the fish species that have been identified in this area can be viewed in
the table below. Below is a list of the fish that occur from the
Bushman's River Mouth to the Fish River Mouth.
Learn more about
these areas in the research here. Every fish listed below will be
studied and a lot of information will be available to you. Enjoy and
please feel free to
contact me
if you have any questions. All information is accurate and to the point,
if it is not accurate or verified it will be mentioned. To work out the
weight of the fish, the SASAA tables were used.
The records of the fish
were all recorded within the research area. These records have all been
verified by myself.
The fish species of the Kenton, Port Alfred and Fish River areas listed below are species that have been caught from the shore, if a fish you are familiar with in the area is not listed below, please contact me.
All Fish Species Recorded In The Research Area To Date. Please Click A Fish Name To See It's Full Bio & Information
| Fish Common Name | Current Record |
| African Longfin Eel | 0.5kg's |
| Agile Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| Aimee's Goby | 0.2kg's |
| Baardman | - |
| Banded Galjoen | 0.7kg's |
| Barehead Goby | - |
| Bartail Flathead | 1kg |
| Black Musselcracker | 7kg's |
| Black Seacatfish | 0.3kg's |
| Blackhand Sole | - |
| Blacktail | 2kg's |
| Blacktip Kingfish | 0.2kg's |
| Blue Kurper | 1.1kg's |
| Blue Ray | 25kg's |
| Bluntnose Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| Bronze Bream | 4.2kg's |
| Bronze Whaler | 10kg's |
| Brown Ray | - |
| Brown Shyshark | 1.5kg's |
| Cape Stumpnose | 1.2kg's |
| Cape Moony | 0.5kg's |
| Cape Silverside | 0.1kg's |
| Cape Sole | - |
| Catface Rockcod | 0.6kg's |
| Coelacanth | 48cm |
| Diamond Ray | 40kg's |
| Estuarine Pipefish | - |
| Estuarine Round Herring | - |
| Evileyed Puffer | 0.2kg's |
| Flathead Mullet | 0.7kg's |
| Fransmadam | 0.3kg's |
| Freshwater Mullet | 0.2kg's |
| Galjoen | - |
| Garrick | 1.8kg's |
| Geelbeck | 1kg |
| Giant Kingfish | - |
| Grass Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| Grey Shark | - |
| Groovy Mullet | - |
| Honeycomb Moray Eel | - |
| John Brown | 0.3kg's |
| Kappie Blenny | - |
| Knysna Sand Goby | - |
| Kob, Dusky | 45.7kg's |
| Kob, Silver | 1kg |
| Koester Rockcod | 0.5kg's |
| Largescale Mullet | - |
| Leopard Catshark | - |
| Lesser Sandshark | 8kg's |
| Longarm Mullet | - |
| Maasbunker | - |
| Natal Moony | - |
| Natal Stumpnose | 2.5kg's |
| Oldman Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| Pickhandle Barracuda | - |
| Pike Conger | 0.5kg's |
| Pinky | 0.5kg's |
| Prison Goby | 0.1kg's |
| Ragged Tooth Shark | 177kg's |
| Red Fingers | 0.4kg's |
| Rippled Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| River Bream | 0.2kg's |
| River Goby | 0.1kg's |
| River Snapper | 0.5kg's |
| Robust Klipfish | 0.2kg's |
| Russell's Snapper | 0.1kg's |
| Sand Steenbras | 0.6kg's |
| Sergeant Major | 0.2kg's |
| Shad | 2kg's |
| Smoothound Shark | 0.3kg's |
| Southern Mullet | 0.3kg's |
| Spotted Grunter | 2.5kg's |
| Spotted Gully Shark | 13.4kg's |
| Springer | 1.9kg's |
| Steentjie | - |
| Stonebream | 2.2kg's |
| Strepie | 0.7kg's |
| Striped Mullet | 0.3kg's |
| Super Klipfish | 0.1kg's |
| Thornfish | 0.3kg's |
| Tiger Shark | 5kg's |
| Twotone Fingerfin | 0.4kg |
| White Musselcracker | 0.6kg's |
| White Seacatfish | 1.1kg's |
| White Steenbras | 11kg's |
| White Stumpnose | 0.1kg's |
| Whitespotted Rabbitfish | - |
| Yellowbelly Rockcod | 0.7kg's |
| Zambezi Shark | 80kg's |
| Zebra | 2.1kg's |
