Entanglements from discarded and lost fishing gear.
In the last week of March 2023, two graphic examples of lethal marine entanglement with abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (#ALDFG) were reported on a local Garden Route stranding […]
Category Archives: Fishing entanglement
Reef Clean Up : Knysna Heads
In conjunction with Knysna Basin Project, Strandloper Project volunteers conducted a clean up dive to remove lost and snagged recreational fishing gear on the eastern side of the channel flanking […]
Fish For the Future
Ocean Harvest As South Africans prepare for their summer break with the annual rush to our beautiful coastline, many will be planning to spend time indulging in some shore based […]
Strandloper Project survey sites in the garden Route
Documenting the different methods of fishing tackle snagging. Since the onset of our reef surveys for snagged recreation fishing in January 2018, the Strandloper Project has been able to distinguish […]
Reef assessment in the Garden Route
This morning, visiting our fixed point photography locations at Gericke’s Point to get progress photographs of the reef condition, I decided to check under a shelf afterwards. There is a […]
The essence of capturing marine life
Last night, while doing some underwater photography, a group of three young fishermen approached me and asked what I was doing. Interesting they said. In response to my query of […]
Marine Stranding’s in the Garden Route : information for rescue, handling and recovery.
Washed up. The Southern Cape coastline boasts a dynamic ocean and shoreline driven by strong winds and strong currents and the relatively shallow seabed of the Agulhas Bank which extends […]
Coastal Cleanup Day in the Garden Route.
International Groundswell. As part of the International Coastal Cleanup Day on the 21st September, the Strandloper Project undertook a combined beach and reef clean up. Locals Caring in the Garden […]
Marine biodiversity disrupted by recreational fishing entanglements and discards in the Garden Route.
On the 30th June, members of the Strandloper Project set off down to their primary reef transect at Gericke’s Point to attempt a reef survey and to recover snagged recreational […]
Hiking through the origins of human thought in the Southern Cape.
‘On this intertidal shelf, you can forage for 90 minutes and collect more than your daily energetic requirements’ Archaeological Sites in the Garden Route. We had arrived beneath the pastel […]
Chasing Windmills and Sunbeams 