SASSI

No-sale species that should never be bought or sold (* denotes species that are also prohibited for recreational fishers)

Common Name Scientific Name
Baardman (bellman, tasselfish) Umbrina spp.
Banded galjoen Dichistius multifasciatus
Blacktail (dassie) Diplodus sargus capensis
Brindle bass Epinephelus (Promicrops) lanceolatus *
Bronze bream Pachymetopon grande
Cape knifejaw Oplegnathus conwayi
Cape stumpnose Rhabdosargus holubi
Galjoen Dichistius capensis
Garrick (leervis) Lichia amia
Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias *
John Brown Gymnocrotaphus curvidens
Kingfishes Caranx spp and Carangoides spp
Large-spot pompano (moony, wave garrick) Trachinotus botla
Leopard cat shark Poroderma pantherinum
Natal knifejaw (cuckoo bass) Oplegnathus robinsoni
Natal stumpnose (yellowfin bream) Rhabdosargus sarba
Natal wrasse Anchichoerops natalensis *
Pipefish & seahorses Family Syngnathidae*
Potato bass Epinephelus tukula*
Ragged tooth shark Carcharias taurus
River bream (perch) Acanthopagrus berda
River snapper (rock salmon) Lutjanus argentimaculatus
Sawfishes Family Pristidae*
Seventy-four Polysteganus undulosus*
Southern pompano Trachinotus africanus
Spotted grunter (tiger) Pomadasys commersonnii
Spotted gulley shark Triakis megalopterus
Springer (ten pounder) Elops machnata
Stonebream Neoscorpis lithophilus
Striped cat shark Poroderma africanum
West coast steenbras Lithognathus aureti
White musselcracker (brusher, cracker) Sparodon durbanensis
White steenbras (pignose grunter) Lithognathus lithognathus
Zebra (wildeperd) Diplodus cervinus hottentotus
   
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