Sky full of gannets but no sardines… - 03:41 pm

15 Jun 2009

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This morning we were greeted after our pre-dawn launch with skies full of gannets just north of Port St Johns. Bailing overboard in an attempt to film the action beneath, we glimpsed snatches of hunting behaviour as clusters of three to four common dolphin careered past us in chase of red eye sardine. The visibility was not great however, around three to four meters, and with large dusky sharks lurking below the action we made a call to focus on capturing the topside action. According to reports from the Natal Sharks Board, the most significant concentration of Sardinops sagax sardine was sighted off the Mbashe River on Thursday last week, some 100km’s down the coast. Tomorrow morning, weather permitting, our plan is to run south past Coffee bay to see if we can find this action in clean water.

Posted by Earth-Touch Marine Crew: Roger Horrocks, Barry Skinstad, Ian Cook.

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1 posted at 09:32am on 16 June, 2009 by Allan Vorster

Hi guys
Just in case you arent aware of it,plenty, if not most upcountry sardine-run anglers rely on your reports to make travelling decisions for the pending sardine run fishing mania.
Keep up the great work
Cheers
Allan aka Kitefisher

2 posted at 04:37am on 07 September, 2009 by Josh

Wow what a breathtaking photograph.  Extremely well done.

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