White steenbras
| White steenbras | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Sparidae |
| Genus: | Lithognathus |
| Species: | L. lithognathus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lithognathus lithognathus (Cuvier, 1829) | |
The white steenbras (Lithognathus lithognathus) is a species of fish in the Sparidae family[1] endemic to South Africa.[2] Due to overfishing, primarily by seine netting operations in False Bay, the white steenbras is now critically endangered and is about to become a 'no keep' species in South Africa. Massive breeding shoals are illegally wiped out by beach seine netters each year,[3] with the authorities doing little to prevent this.[4]
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
- ↑ Skelton, P. 1996. Lithognathus lithognathus.
- ↑ Link to illegal hauls of White Steenbras
- ↑ Public Vow to stop Illegal White Steenbras hauls being made by Beach Seine Netters