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Seventy-four seabream


Seventy-four seabream

Polysteganus undulosus
 

SA Names

Seventy-four
 

SASSI Category

Red
 

Capture or Production Info

Commercial boat linefishermen
 

Biological Info

Spawning migration and aggregation

Habitat

Inshore and offshore rocky reefs
 

Distribution

Endemic, Knysna to southern Mozambique
 

Conservation Notes

Specially protected species and thus illegal to catch or sell. The moratorium in 1998 resulted from a stock collapse due to intensive fishing on its spawning migrations. It was formerly the most common linefish consumed in KZN

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