| Common Names |
Minimum size/mass |
Bag limits |
| Anchovies |
none |
none |
| Baardman (bellman, tasselfish) |
40cm |
5 |
| Banded galjoen |
none |
5 |
| Billfishes (marlin, sailfish) |
none |
5 |
| Blacktail (dassie) |
20cm |
5 |
| Blue hottentot |
none |
5 |
| Bronze beam (bluefish) |
30cm |
2 |
| Cape knifejaw |
none |
5 |
| Cape stumpnose |
20cm |
5 |
| Carpenter |
35cm |
4 |
| Catface rockcod |
50cm |
5 |
| Chub mackerel |
none |
none |
| Cutlassfish (walla walla) |
none |
none |
| Dageraad |
40cm |
1 |
| Dane |
none |
5 |
| Elf (shad) |
30cm |
4 |
| Englishman |
40cm |
1 |
| Fransmadam (Karel groot oog) |
none |
10 |
| Galjoen |
35cm |
2 |
| Garfishes |
none |
none |
| Garrick (leervis) |
70cm |
2 |
| Geelbek (Cape salmon) |
60cm |
2 |
| Glassies |
none |
none |
| Hake (stockfish) |
none |
5 |
| Halfbeaks |
none |
none |
| Horse mackerel / Maasbanker |
none |
none |
| Hottentot |
22cm |
10 |
| John Brown |
none |
5 |
| Kingfishes |
none |
5 |
| Kingklip |
none |
1 |
| King mackerel |
none |
10 |
| Kob caught from a boat at sea |
| [Cape Agulhas to Umtamuna River] |
50cm |
none |
| [The Province of Kwa-Zulu Natal] |
40cm |
none |
| [East of Cape Agulhas only] |
60cm |
1 |
| Kob |
| [West of Cape Agulhas only] |
50cm |
5 |
| Large-spot pompano (wave garrick) |
none |
5 |
| Leopard cat shark |
none |
1 |
| Mullets / Harders |
none |
50 |
| Natal knifejaw (Cuckoo bass) |
none |
5 |
| Natal stumpnose (yellowfin bream) |
25cm |
5 |
| Pinky (piggy) |
7.5cm |
10 |
| Poenskop (black steenbras or musselcraker) |
50cm |
1 |
| Queen mackerel |
none |
10 |
| Ragged tooth shark |
none |
1 |
| Red steenbras (copper steenbras) |
60cm |
1 |
| Red stumpnose (Miss Lucy) |
30cm |
1 |
| River bream (perch) |
25cm |
5 |
| River snapper (rock salmon) |
40cm |
5 |
| Roman |
30cm |
2 |
| Santer (soldier) |
30cm |
5 |
| Sardines (pilchard & red-eye) |
none |
none |
| Sauries |
none |
none |
| Scads |
none |
none |
| Scotsman |
40cm |
1 |
| Slinger |
25cm |
5 |
| Snoek (Cape snoek) |
60cm |
10 |
| Southern pompano |
none |
5 |
| Spotted grunter (tiger) |
40cm |
5 |
| Spotted gulley shark |
none |
1 |
| Springer (ten pounder) |
none |
5 |
| Steentjie |
none |
10 |
| Stonebream |
none |
5 |
| Strepie (karanteen) |
15cm |
10 |
| Striped cat shark |
none |
1 |
| Swordfish (broadbill) |
25kg |
5 |
| Squid (chokka) |
none |
20 |
| Tunas (tunny) |
none |
10 |
| Albacore / longfin tuna |
none |
10 |
| Bigeye tuna |
3.2kg |
10 |
| Bluefin tuna |
6.4kg |
10 |
| Yellowfin tuna |
3.2kg |
10 |
| West coast steenbras |
60cm |
1 |
| White edged (Captain Fine) rockcod |
40cm |
5 |
| White musselcracker (brusher, cracker) |
60cm |
2 |
| White steenbras (pignose grunter) |
60cm |
1 |
| White stumpnose |
25cm |
10 |
| Wolfherring |
none |
none |
| Yellowbelly rockcod |
60cm |
1 |
| Yellowtail |
none |
10 |
| Zebra (wildeperd) |
30cm |
5 |
