Freshwater fish
Infographic - World Fisheries Day - Help Us Save Our Indigenous Fish Species
Video World Environment Day: Ecosystem Restoration with Mbali
Join Mbali as she interviews experts that are involved in ecosystem restoration. Available in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
Infographic: Freshwater fishing guide
Fancy fishing? Find out where and how you can fish in the Western Cape.
Video: Webinar - Biodiversity State of Conservation Report 2020
In this interesting webinar, learn about the state of conservation in the Western Cape, what the threats are to biodiversity and what is being done to conserve it.
Effect of an intensive mechanical removal effort on a population of non-native rainbow trout in a SA headwater stream.
Invasions by non‐native species can compromise the conservation value of otherwise pristine headwater streams. While both developed and developing countries recognize this threat, few of the latter have suitable budgets to implement control programmes.
Shelton, J., Weyl, O., Van der Walt, J., Marr, S., Impson D., Maciejewski K., Dallas, H., Tye, D. and Esler, K. 2017.
Unexpected survival of sharptooth catfish during acute rotenone toxicity trials will complicate management of invasions.
Biological Invasions. Jordaan, M.S., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Slabbert, E. and Weyl, O.L.F. 2017.
Vulnerability of cape fold ecoregion freshwater fishes to climate change and other human impacts.
Shelton, J., Weyl, O., Chakona, A., Ellender, B., Esler, K., Impson, D. Jordaan, M., Marr, S., Ngobela, T., van der Walt, R., Paxton B., and Dallas, H. 2017.
Rethinking refuges: Implications of climate change for dam busting
Biological Conservation 209: 188–195. Beatty, S., Allen, M., Lymbery, A., Jordaan, M.S., Morgan, D., Impson, D., Marr, C., Ebner, B. and Weyl, O.L.F. 2017.
Successful mechanical eradication of spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) from a South African river
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Van der Walt, R., Marr, S., Wheeler, M., Impson, D., Garrow, C. and Weyl. O. 2018.
Record of Blue tilapia Oreochromis aureus in the Eerste River catchment Western Cape Province South Africa
African J. Aquatic Sciences pp 187-193. Marr, S.M., Gouws, G., Avlijas, S., Khosa, D., Impson, D., vd Westhuizen, M. and Weyl, O. 2018
Radio Interview: Alien Invasive Fish - English
Reconstruction of the historical distribution ranges of imperilled stream fishes
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 30:144–158. Chakona A, Gouws G, Kadye WT, Jordaan MS & Swartz ER. 2020.