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RESORT AND CONFERENCE CENTRE - SWAKOPMUND, NAMIBIA |
Fishing Regulations
Regulations, as set out in the Fisheries Act (Act 29 of 1992), as provided by the Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources.
** Please Note that the Regulations may be changed from time to time and you are advised to obtain the latest Fisheries Act from the Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources. Strand Street, Tel. 064-405744, Swakopmund.
PROHIBITED SPECIESProvisions for methods of collecting or catching
Trading, exportation & importation
PROHIBITED SPECIESNo person shall pursue, willfully disturb, catch, shoot, kill or be in possession of any great white shark, whale, dolphin, marine turtle or polychaete (bristle) worm. This means that angling with worms as bait, is now prohibited.
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The season for catching Rock Lobster is: 1 November to 30 April The minimum size for Rock Lobster in your possession: 65mm carapace length
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The maximum number which a person may catch and retain, is five to seven per day. No more that 21 lobster shall be transported at any time in or on a vehicle and such lobster shall be in a whole state.
No person shall on any one day catch or convey or be in possession of more than:
| 5 | Barnacles; |
| 50 | Black, brown or ribbed mussels; |
| 5 | Coelenterates such as sea-anemones, sea firs, blue bottles, jelly fish, corals and sea-pens; |
| 5 | Echinoderms such as brittle stars, starfish, sea-urchins, sea-cucumbers, feather stars and sea-lilies; |
| 5 | Hermit crabs; |
| 15 | Limpets; |
| 5 | Molluscs other than black mussels, brown mussels, ribbed mussels, limpets, periwinkles and white mussels; |
| 5 | Prawns; |
| 25 | Periwinkles; |
| 2 | kg Red bait, washed-up ashore and weighed without shell; |
| 25 | White mussel which may not pass through a ring with an inner diameter of 38mm; |
| 1 | kg Aquatic plants other than brown seaweed; |
| 10 | kg Brown seaweed; |
| 10 | kg or 50 Sea-shells. |
Provisions for methods of collecting or catching
Anglers from the shore or from an angling boat may not use more than one fishing rod and line or hand line or more than two hooks on the line. When engaged in spear fishing, no artificial breathing apparatus except a snorkel may be used.
Except when catching fish from a fishing vessel or when engaged in angling, marine organisms may generally be caught or collected only by hand, provided that for collecting of sea-anemones, barnacles, limpets, brown or red seaweeds, an implement, the blade or flat edge of which shall not exceed 40mm, may be used. In the case of rock lobster, a ring-net may be used.
Trading, exportation & importation
No person without a
licence or permit to catch fish on a commercial basis, or with the written
authority of the Minister shall sell any fish or other marine organisms
including plants, provided that any such organisms imported into Namibia,
may be sold. No written authority shall be granted in respect of red bait,
coelenterates, limpets, periwinkles, chitons, bivalves, slugs, hermit
crabs, echinoderms and galjoen.
The written authority of the Minister is needed to import or export any
live marine organisms.
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Angling is now allowed only in the following areas:
No person shall on any one day catch from the shore or an angling boat or, if for own use, from a licensed fishing vessel, and retain more than 30 fish in total of any one or more of kob (kabeljou), steenbras, blacktail (dassie) or galjoen, provided that on any one day no more than 8 (eight) galjoen shall be caught and retained. For transport purposes, no person shall convey in or on or have on any vehicle more than 30 fish referred to above, or if not all the fish are in a whole state, more than 30kg, provided that in the case of galjoen, it shall be a maximum of 8 in whole state, or 8kg if not all are in a whole state. A person may convey in or on a vehicle fish on behalf of somebody else, provided that such a person is present in or on a vehicle and that at no time more than 60 whole fish or 60kg if all are not in a whole state, of the fish of the species mentioned, or in the case of galjoen more than 16 whole fish or 16kg if all galjoen are not in a whole state, may be so conveyed. A fish of which any one or more of the following parts have been removed, shall be deemed still to be in a whole state: the head, tail, scales or intestines. |
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DASSIE/BLACKTAIL/ |
The Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource are asking for help from fishermen on their tagging project. Please report any details of fish caught with tags to the Ministry of Fisheries, Research Department, Strand Street, Tel. 064-405744, Swakopmund.
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