{"id":8799,"date":"2022-06-24T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinct.co.za\/site\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2024-10-06T21:48:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:48:39","slug":"the-news-is-out-the-sardines-are-on-their-way-up-the-coast-of-kwazulu-nata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/the-news-is-out-the-sardines-are-on-their-way-up-the-coast-of-kwazulu-nata\/","title":{"rendered":"The news is out, the sardines are on their way up the coast of KwaZulu-Natal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the cooler current, between 14 and 20 degrees experienced between the months of May and August, the sardines start their migration up our coastline. The Southern African pilchard Sardinops sagax, commonly known as the Sardine, spawn in the waters of the Agulhas Bank and move north along our east coast. Shoals are often more than 7km long, 1.5km wide and 30 meters deep \u2013 the biggest shoal on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Pockets have been sighted off south coast so it\u2019s only a matter of days before they reach our shores.<\/p>\n<p>Images courtesy of Andy Coetzee &#8211; Adventurer Andy (@adventurer_andy)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8801\" src=\"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cooler current, between 14 and 20 degrees experienced between the months of May and August, the sardines start their migration up our coastline. The Southern African pilchard Sardinops sagax, commonly known as the Sardine, spawn in the waters of the Agulhas Bank and move north along our east coast. Shoals are often more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-and-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibayaprecinctmgt.co.za\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}