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    Artisanal fisheries in the Ndumo area of the Lower Phongolo River floodplain, South Africa

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    2015
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    Coetzee, Hendri C.
    Nell, Werner
    Van Eeden, Elize S.
    De Crom, Engela P.
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    The aim of this study was to investigate the status of artisanal fisheries in the lower Phongolo River floodplain in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A cross-sectional quantitative survey design was used that included the development of a questionnaire and a systematic survey among the five villages bordering the Ndumo Game Reserve. Data were collected over a 5-day period by a group of 16 fieldworkers and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 21. The results revealed that fish was the third most consumed protein in the area, that people consumed fish on average twice a week, that at least six fish species (and one recently introduced crayfish species) were consumed regularly, and that most fish were obtained from local vendors, who in turn bought it from local fishermen and -women. Fishing activities also appeared to occur predominantly along the river system and targeted mainly red-breasted tilapia (Tilapia rendalli) and Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) and, to a slightly lesser extent, African sharptooth catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and brown squeaker (Synodontis zambezensis)
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/18710
    http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe
    http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v57i1.1248
    http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/1248
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