Greenfish Blog

This past Sunday I went to sea off Hout bay in search of tuna, the weather in the morning was incredibly unpleasant, cold and bumpy. I had a videographer on board to capture some of our day so we can share and show our story to our customers, how we fish and the impacts we have with our style of harvest so that the consumers are best informed to make their choices.   Tuna are amazing predators, perfectly designed to cut through the water at high speeds, with big eyes to visually hunt down prey such as sardine, garfish, squids and...

MODERN DAY CAVE MAN I am very fortunate to harvest most of my own protein from the ocean and land.  This means that I am intimately involved in the journey my food takes from the ocean or farm to my table. This involvement in the harvest and preparation, ensures that I know exactly where my food comes from, how it was produced and, ultimately, what I am consuming. This is a privilege, but it is not the same for everyone. We live in a time where we are further apart from our food than ever before. Driven by the pressured...

The fight for survival: Turtles facing more and more threats from plastic filled oceans. This past week, we assisted the Two Oceans Aquarium with their Turtle Rescue Programme ( Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation) and successfully transported yet another turtle in need. Greenfish has been actively involved in this programme for the past few years. This week’s project involved the largest turtle we have had a direct hand in assisting- a sub-adult Hawks Bill Turtle. The turtle was found stranded between Struisbaai and Agulhas this past week. Although super weak, our patient is currently stable. The X-rays showed no foreign matter...

Due to its geographic location, Cape Town lends itself perfectly to world class tuna fishing. The warm Mozambican current that runs down the east coast, overlapping with the cold Benguela current that moves down the west coast, brings with it an abundance of nutrients and baitfish. This upwelling, along with the hake long lining and trawling, congregated contours and depths are all contributing factors to why tuna congregate here. The typical season tuna starts in October and is brought on after a good strong blow by the south-easterly wind which drives the warm currents closer to shore. The first half...

Plastic in our Oceans – and what each of us can do. Recently I caught a dorado off Cape Point. These fish are not common around Cape Town and only visit us when the waters are very hot or when a piece of debris drifts down, like in this case a tree, that carried many fish underneath it in its own little eco system. Dorado are famous for being the “chicken of the sea”, so I prepared this one to take home for dinner. While filleting the dorado, I felt something unusual in the stomach. It is very common practice...