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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – 2017 Protea and SADSAA

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To all Clubs

Please send to all your interested anglers , I am now calling for the SGDSAA Nominations for the

  • HEAVY TACKLE NATIONALS
  • LIGHT TACKLE NATIONALS

This is for the Southern Gauteng teams now !

The SADSAA and PROTEA nominations have all been received and sent through to SADSAA now for selection.

DUE DATE :         15TH AUGUST 2017

SGDSAA  DEEP SEA
083 588 0217
admin@sgdsaa.co.za

Nominations to be with Lynette Adams no later than 20th July 2017.

Anglers wishing to nominate who do not have a nomination form can contact Lynette direct.

Regards

SGDSAA  DEEP SEA

0835880217

admin@sgdsaa.co.za

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

PROTEA – XV International Fishing Tournament Guatemala 2017

Nominations are hereby called for a 3 person team to represent South Africa (Protea Colours) at the XV International Fishing Tournament Guatemala 2017.

This will be a light tackle billfish tournament fished on 10 kg line held at Club Nautico de Guatemala.

The tournament dates October 19th to 23rd 2017. The entry fee is USD 1,800 per team and the team have to charter their own boat (The organisers will help in securing a boat)

The entry fee excludes Boats, accommodation and airfares.

 

SADSAA – Light Tackle Billfish National Championships 2017

Nominations are hereby called for a 3 person team to represent SADSAA at the Light Tackle Billfish National Championships 2017.

The host province is Mpumalanga and the tournament will be fished on 10kg line at Sodwana Bay Zululand between the 18th to 25th November 2017. This is an own boat tournament.

The entry fee is R 5,850 per team which excludes travelling and accommodation.

 

SADSAA – Heavy Tackle Billfish National Championships 2017

Nominations are hereby called for a 3 person team to represent SADSAA at the Heavy Tackle Billfish National Championships 2017

The host province is Mpumalanga and the tournament will be fished on 37kg line at Sodwana Bay Zululand between the 18th and 25th November 2017. This is an own boat tournament.

The entry fee is R 5,850 per team which excludes travelling and accommodation.

 

SADSAA Masters – Light & Heavy Tackle Billfish National Championships 2017

Nominations are hereby called for 3 person Masters teams for both the Sodwana Nationals above.

South African Tuna Tagging Project

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From: Recovery Officer [mailto:iccatrecovery@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 July 2017 01:07 PM
Subject: Tuna Tagging Program update

Hi Sally,

I hope this mail finds you well. Thank you so much for your help spreading the awareness around the tuna tagging project a few months ago.

To fill you in on where we are now, our tagging efforts were severely hampered by bad weather and a distinct lack of tuna for the time of year. This meant we were nowhere close to the (very optimistic) target of tagging 3000 tuna in 3 months, and only managed to tag little over 200 tuna. Tagging operations have now ceased for the time being, so that is what we have to work with until next season. Understandably this compromises the program somewhat, but more importantly there is now more emphasis on each and every tag out there. Therefore, for us it is utterly important that as many people as possible are fishing for tuna, are aware of the program keeping their eyes open for tags and will report the tags when landed.

With this is mind please could I ask you to send out this information to your mailing list to keep the tuna tagging program on everyone’s mind when going out fishing? This would be a really big help to us, and would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions/concerns or information from your side please feel free to get hold of me.

Kind regards

Craig Haley
Recovery Officer
CapMarine (Pty) Ltd

From: Recovery Officer [mailto:iccatrecovery@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 06 February 2017 3:05 PM
Subject: South African tuna tagging project

Good day,

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) have initiated the Atlantic Ocean Tropical Tagging Program (AOTTP) to collect information on tuna abundance, movement and growth to improve the management of tuna in the Atlantic Ocean. The AOTTP has now been launched in South Africa with a tagging team that aim to tag up to 3000 yellowfin and skipjack tuna over the next three months.

The success of this project is hugely dependent on the awareness of all tuna fishermen to look out for and report on any tagged fish caught.

Over the next three months 3,000 tuna will be tagged with either red, yellow tags on their left hand side, and some will have an additional tag on their right hand side. Tagging will predominately take place in the Western Cape, but tuna are likely to be caught all around the South African coastline. Our job at CapMarine is to retrieve as many tags as possible over the next three years, and this is where we could really use your help.

If anyone catches a tagged tuna during the program, we ask to please get hold of us by sending an SMS to 063 634 2503, after which we will call you back as soon as possible to record some information,including:

  1. tag code(s)
  2. fish length
  3. location caught
  4. date caught

A small cash reward and AOTTP t-shirts will be issued upon the retrieval of the tags. We will also buy the tuna back from you should it have a red tag on it.

Please could I ask you to forward this information on to all your members, this would greatly help us get the word out and create awareness around this exciting project and greatly contribute to its success.

Kind regards

Craig
Recovery Officer
CapMarine PTY

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