Tag: barracuda

Gambia artisanal fishery – Hook and line fishing

Credit: Peter K Mendy (Gambia) The photos show a typical fishing boat in Gambia artisanal fishery. Hook and line fishing is used when fishing of large value species like; giant African threadfin, and Barracuda is targeted. Because of the warm climate, fishermen normally carry along those boxes and ice with them when going fishing to …

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Recreational fishing (Hamata – Red Sea – Egypt) – barracuda – Video

Photo credit: Waleed Masood (Egypt)                                 Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal Hamata is the most southerly diving resort in Egypt’s Red Sea; situated about 180 km south of Marsa Alam, and about 360km south of Hurghada. Recently, Hamata is quickly becoming one of the …

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Historic fish market in Zanzibar (1950)

Source: Last chance in Africa by: Negley Farson. 1950. Publisher: Victor Gollancz (London) The attached photo describes a fish market in Zanzibar as exactly cited in the source as follows: Zanzibar’s other scene of striking beauty is the harbour on a still sunset. Fish market, rich with the smells of dried shark and the reeking …

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Fish catch on a fishing boat in Khasab fishing port (Sultanate of Oman) In Arabic

Credit: Hussein Ali Mohammed Alshihi (Oman): هذه الصورة لأحد الصيادين فى ميناء الصيد فى ولاية خصب فى قارب الصيد المصنوع من الفيبر جلاس والمزود بمحركين قوة كل منهما 75 حصان. الأسماك الموضحة هى لأسماك الباراكودا والمسماه محليا (القد). يعرض الصياد  أسماكه للبيع والتى غالبا ما يتم تصديرها إلى دبى Note: We decided not to watermark …

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