MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Chair of the Midbrak Conservancy as well as the Little Brak River Forum, Robin Fick, says the system at the Little Brak River estuary has stabilised.
This follows complaints of hundreds of spotted grunter fish that were illegally caught by hand on Sunday, 19 January, hours after the mouth of the Little Brak River was mechanically opened by the Mossel Bay Municipality as a precautionary measure, to prevent houses next to the riverbank from flooding.
Fick says he received many photos of many grunters being taken.
He says grunters take three years to mature before they start spawning.
"They spawn at sea and the small ones come back into the estuary as it provides them protection. Our problem is that mature grunter were caught in large numbers, grunter that were supposed to go out to sea to spawn."
Fick says the mouth of the river is still open but there is still a lot of fresh water in the system. "Unfortunately piles of sand are being washed into the channel. We will continue to monitor the situation."
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