PRIORITY SPECIES TO BE TAGGED IN SOUTH AFRICA
A. Sandy beach/soft bottom species
Baardman/bellman/tassel fish
Cock grunter
Dusky kob/daga salmon
Geelbek/Cape salmon
Javelin grunter/mof grunter
Largespot pompano/wave garrick
Natal stumpnose/yellowfin bream
Perch/river bream
Silver kob (make sure of your ID)
Snapper kob
Southern/African pompano
Spotted grunter
Squaretail kob (make sure of your ID)
Tripletail
White steenbras/pignose grunter
B. Gamefish species
Albacore/longfin tuna
Bigeye kingfish
Black marlin
Blacktip/yellowtail kingfish
Bludger
Bludger
Blue marlin
Blue/Ferdy kingfish
Bluefin kingfish
Brassy/greenspot kingfish
Cape/giant yellowtail
Couta/king mackerel
Elf/shad
Garrick/leervis
Giant kingfish
Great barracuda
Greater amberjack/yellowtail
Largemouth/talang queenfish
Longfin amberjack/tropical yellowtail
Longfin kingfish
Natal snoek/queen mackerel
Pickhandle barracuda
Prodigal son/cobia
Sailfish
Shortbilled spearfish
Springer/ladyfish/tenpounder
Striped marlin
Swordfish/broadbill
Wahoo
Yellowfin tuna
Yellowspotted kingfish
C. Rocky shore fish species
Banded galjoen
Blue emperor
Bronze/copper bream
Catface/brown-spotted rockcod
Cave bass
Galjoen/damba
Lemonfish
Minstrel rubberlip
River snapper/rock salmon
Speckled snapper
Stone bream/stinker
White musselcracker/brusher
Yellowbelly rockcod
Zebra/wildeperd
D. Offshore reef fish species
Blue hottentot
Dageraad
Dusky rubberlip
Englishman
German
Halfmoon rockcod
Hottentot
Kaakap/green jobfish
Lyretail/swallowtail rockcod
Malabar rockcod
Moustache rockcod
Poenskop/black musselcracker
Potato bass
Red stumpnose/Miss Lucy
Red/copper steenbras
Roman
Sailfin rubberlip
Scotsman
Seventy-four
Soldier/santer
Tomato rockcod
White-barred rubberlip
Wreckfish
Yellowfin emperor
E. Sharks
Blackspot shark
Blackspot smoothhound (make sure of your ID)
Blacktip/blackfin shark
Broadnose sevengill cow shark
Brown shyshark
Copper shark/bronze whaler
Dark shyshark
Dusky/grey shark
Flapnose houndshark
Giant hammerhead shark
Giant sandshark/guitarfish
Grey reef shark
Hardnose smoothhound
Java shark
Leopard catshark
Longnose blackfin/spinner shark
Puffadder shyshark
Sandbar shark
Scalloped hammerhead shark
Shortfin mako shark
Sliteye shark
Smooth hammerhead shark
Soupfin shark/vaalhaai
Spotted gully shark
Spotted ragged-tooth shark
Striped catshark
Thintail thresher shark
Tiger shark
Zambezi/bull shark
* No lesser sandsharks
F. Rays
No ray species are to be tagged
SPECIES TO BE TAGGED IN MOZAMBIQUE
Amberjack
Black marlin
Blue marlin
Couta/king mackerel
Giant kingfish/trevally
Largemouth/talang queenfish
Natal snoek/queen mackerel
Sailfish
Southern/African pompano
Striped marlin
Swordfish/broadbill
Wahoo
Yellowfin tuna
Please note: The tagging of fish using ORI tags is specifically restricted to South Africa and Mozambique. No fish are to be tagged with ORI tags in Angola, Namibia, Tanzania and/or Kenya