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Sardine frenzy hits Durban beaches By Frank Chemaly Share Durban’s beaches were a hive of activity yesterday as the first sardines of the season were netted at Country Club Beach. Netter Goolam Essack was excited about this year’s run. “It’s the biggest in years,” he said. “It’s the biggest since 1974.” The veteren netter has been following the fish for 60 years. “I’m 70, and when I was 10 I used to row out in a boat and throw my net around the fish.” Yesterday they netted at their third attempt. “We took the boat out at Suncoast, b...

Seine netters pulled in at least 120 crates of the silvery fish at Port Edward on Monday. Watch sharks and birds feast on the sardines here. But netting was hampered on Tuesday along the South Coast on Tuesday by the inclement weather including heavy rainfall and flooding, seasoned Durban fisherman Goolam Essack told the South African. However, Essack said netters were selling crates of sardines caught at Port Edward on Monday for the “too dear” price of R1500 per crate. He said a crate would ordinarily sell in Durban for up to R800. “Today there were sardines but all the rivers came ...