South African mullet

Smoked mullet or harder.
South African mullet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Mugilidae
Genus: Liza
Species: L. richardsonii
Binomial name
Liza richardsonii
(Smith, 1846)
Hanging bokkoms - whole, salted and dried mullet. Paternoster, Western Cape.

The South African mullet (Liza richardsonii), also called a harder mullet or simply harder, is a species of mullet. It is found in South African coastal waters from Walvis Bay (Namibia) to KwaZulu-Natal, and grows to a maximum length of 40.5 cm.[1]

It is also found inland in the waters of the Olifants River (Western Cape).[2]

Local delicacy in South Africa

Mullet fish caught in the sea and estuaries of the West Coast region are processed by salting and air-drying into bokkoms by small local factories around Velddrif and Laaiplek.

See also

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Liza richardsonii" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
  2. The Olifants River harder fishery (Lisa richardsoni)
  3. Harder common name