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The number of anglers and boats participating in the Eastern Cape ski-boat line fishery is high, and at the Port Elizabeth Deep-Sea Angling Club effort increased by a factor of 1.6 between 1975 and 1982. Ski-boat fishfng is principally a weekend recreational activity, and estimated annual landings are only 37 per cent of commercial line-fish catches in the study area. It is, however, considered to be economically important in terms of equipment outlay(± R17 million) and running expenses (± R 1,65 million). Sampling of catches in 1979 and 1980 showed that of 79 recorded species only 17 were important. Ski-boaters compete with commercial line fishermen for target species, but there is little overlap with the trawl fishery. The paucity of historical line-fish catch records, the multispecies nature and the seasonality of the fishery make management problematical.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Research Division:	Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences
Research Group:	Fisheries sciences
Research Field:	Fisheries sciences not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
UTAS Author:	Buxton, CD (Professor Colin Buxton)
ID Code:	49220
Year Published:	1985
Deposited By:	TAFI - Marine Research Laboratory
Deposited On:	2007-08-01
Last Modified:	2010-01-20
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