Silverfish also called carpenter is an under rated table fish that is fast gaining popularity on the South African dinning room table – and it should as it ticks all the boxes if caught in the right manner. Living on deeper rocks anything from 50-80m, they have become a staple in the Western Cape hand line fishery around Struisbaai and Gaansbaai. Carpenter (silverfish) have a legal size limit of 35cm on traditional handline boats. The benefit of hand line fishing is that if a fish is caught that is too small it can safely be released to grow and breed for the future.
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