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Aerial view over the wild coastline of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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A large hottentot seabream swims by fronds of sea bamboo in Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area.
With a growing network of marine protected areas, a new generation of South Africans like nine-year-old Laila Ntlantlu will hopefully see a return of the country’s iconic reef fishes to healthy numbers.
A Hottentot seabream shot with a speargun. Spearfishing and hook-and-line fishing have caused the collapse of many of False Bay’s fish stocks, despite being selective fishing methods.
Skipper Naaim Jacobs and deck hand Yaseen Almazon navigate the Kalky’s 5 towards Cape Point. False Bay’s traditional hand-line fishermen have made this journey for generations, but it’s uncertain how much longer they will be able to continue.
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A Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) uses a paddle boarder's foot as a chew toy. Living up to their name as "dogs of the sea", most seals are naturally inquisitive and playful. Like true dogs, they don't draw blood when play-biting. Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
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Hottentot seabream are one of the few reef fishes that are still encountered in large numbers in False Bay. Most species are slow growing and highly resident, making them extremely susceptible to overfishing.
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On a warm summer day in December, 25-year-old Jonathan Lewis (right) was among many dozens of people gathered to catch reef fishes off Kalk Bay harbor’s jetty.
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Victor Andrews (age 47, years fishing 28, skipper and crew) plays game to pass the time on three hour leg from Kalk Bay Harbor to fishing location, on board Kalky's 5.
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Khoisan rock paintings thought to depict a group of shaman performing a ritual to summon rain in which they capture an elephant. Cederberg, South Africa.
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Kalky’s 5 is one of the larger hand-line boats with a crew of up to twelve. The South African traditional linefishery is made up of close to 600 vessels and just over 4,000 crew. 28,000 households depend on fishing for food security.
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White steenbras in Ocean Basket Kelp Forest Exhibit, Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town.
A blue shark caught on a traditional linefishing boat in False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa.
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A Cape fur seal regulates its body temperature in the cool Atlantic waters off the Cape Peninsula by floating upside down with one of its highly vascularized flippers sticking out of the water to catch the warmth of the sun. Photographed at Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
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Conservation biologist Lauren de Vos uses baited underwater video systems to gather critical information for effective fisheries management in False Bay, including the diversity, abundance, and distribution of fishes.
A roman caught near Cape Point. Because roman are born female and change sex later in life, intensive fishing skews their sex ratio, hurting a population’s ability to bounce back.
In December 1968, Geoff Fridgeon posed for a picture holding a white musselcracker he had speared off Dalebrook beach. A fish this size would have been close to thirty years old. Forty-six years later he stands in the same spot posing with an enlargement of the picture. Today, reef fishes of this size and age have all but disappeared from the bay, and the white musselcracker is near threatened with extinction.
With a growing network of marine protected areas, a new generation of South Africans like nine-year-old Laila Ntlantlu will hopefully see a return of the country’s iconic reef fishes to healthy numbers.
Red stumpnose in Ocean Basket Kelp Forest Exhibit, Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town.
Neoprene and leather sleeves provide some protection for Garth Henry’s scarred fingers when he pulls in strong fish such as snoek. Henry has been a hand-line fisherman since 1998.
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An inquisitive Cape fur seal enters a forest of sea bamboo at Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
A Cape fur seal swims over a kelp bed at Duiker Island off Hout Bay, South Africa.
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A Hottentot seabream seeks shelter amid kelp fronds. Hottentot seabream are among dozens of species found only on the Southern African coastline and nowhere else in the world.
Catch of the day, smooth-hound sharks are landed without heads in Kalk Bay Harbor in False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa.
A large roman swims in one of False Bay’s no-take zones. Marine protected areas are proving to be the light at the end of the tunnel for the future of the country’s iconic reef fishes and the people that depend on them.
With a growing network of marine protected areas, a new generation of South Africans like nine-year-old Laila Ntlantlu will hopefully see a return of the country’s iconic reef fishes to healthy numbers.
Speared Hottentot seabream (Pachymetopon blochii), Smitswinkelbaai.
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