A Post-Graduate Research Project on fish diversity in the Knysna Estuary
Andrew Meiklejohn – Masters Candidate Rhodes University, Department of Icthyhology and Fisheries Science The final two samples for my master’s were made up of the second seine net sample set and second beam trawl sample set. Seine netting is a method of sampling used to target a wide variety of fish in shallow water habitats of estuarine systems. The use of a beam trawl is a new method of sampling in the Knysna estuary, it has however been used in other South African estuaries. Beam trawl sampling allows better targeting of early juvenile fish species. It was hypothesised that a large number of fish species would be present in this summer sample set as well as a large number of...
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