April 2006

A REVIEW OF THE COMMERCIAL, SHALLOW WATER PENAEID PRAWN RESOURCE OF SOUTH AFRICA:

APRIL 2005

Marine & Estuarine Research

A copy of the above report is available as a file. Click on the icon to download the file.

September 2004
 

A REPORT of the above workshop COMPILED BY: Susan Taljaard, Lara van Niekerk and Prof Janine Adams is available as a file. Click on the icon to download the file.

September 2004

Guy Bate has received a suggestion that he provide some pictures of diatoms to illustrate what they look like. The two pictures below were produced by Pat Smailes working at the the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Guy's team has found about 500+ species in the rivers and estuaries of RSA, so these two are just examples of a very diverse flora.

August 2004

Some of the CERMers are currently conducting research at St Lucia and have sent the pictures below (to see a larger version of the picture click on the thumbnail; to get back to this page use your browser's "back" button).
 

Guy Bate slurping up diatoms from the surface of the sediment	Caroline Fox and Mark Olbers collecting sediment cores
Inspecting the sample. Diatoms from this sample will be identified and the assemblage characterised based on the relative abundance of the species present	The upper 1 cm of the core is collected. From this the chlorophyll is extracted into acetone and quantified to give a measure of photosynthetic activity

6 July 2000

The final Report on the state of South African Estuaries is now available on the web site of the
Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Trevor Harrison