#Sardine

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Sardine Report 23 May 2024 from Cintsa, Coffee Bay and Mdumbi

A big thanks to all who sent in videos and information on this beautiful 23 May in 2024. The sardines are definitely well on their way up towards KZN. With some cooler water about making things easier for the sardines to keep moving.

Predators

Are in full attendance. Nobody ever misses this parade once it gets going. The gannets lead the charge by spotting the sardines first and leading up the attack.

All this commotion is easily honed in on by the sonar-equipped cetaceans and fish that follow on.

Obstacles

The sardines have many obstacles to overcome on their grand tour north each year. There are the predators. And then there are what seems human predators too. Hanging around our international waters boundary. Far too close to the sardines, anchovies and red-eyes that we, and our ocean, count on.

Take a look on the AIS websites like marinetraffic.com and please see if you can work out why there are thousands of unidentified little great boats all the way to Australia like this?

Contributions

If you happen across any cool vantage point and sardines are in attendance, please snap a few pics or videos and send them along to us. So we can use all the information to cross-reference what is actually going on with the saridnes at any given moment.

Sardine Sightings Map

Is up and live at the moment. Keep checking this page at...

https://thesardine.co.za/sardine-run-...

...and we will make sure you never miss a single sardine!

Affiliated YouTube Channels
   / @brucifire   – entertaining surf reporting

   / @thesardinenews   – neva miss out

   / @mydotackletalk   – highly technical sport fishing

   / @surflaunchingsouthernafrica   – getting out there safely

   / @waterwoes   – complain here

Affiliated websites
https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za – sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing