PRED-ATOR Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 G'day Raiders, Been reading alot lately about giant mulloway being captured off the coast on WA. Indeed they have massive jewfish with some records of 40kg! The mulloway, however is also found in other parts of the world including the coast of south africa. I have seen pictures and records of mulloway or 'Kob' as the south africans call them of over 66kg! If they are the same species, why are they getting so much bigger over there? im sure mulloway in Australia have access to the same amount of food and i would imagine commercial and reacreational fishing impact would be the same over there also. Does anyone know of jewfish grownig that big over here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret69 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 G'day Raiders, Been reading alot lately about giant mulloway being captured off the coast on WA. Indeed they have massive jewfish with some records of 40kg! The mulloway, however is also found in other parts of the world including the coast of south africa. I have seen pictures and records of mulloway or 'Kob' as the south africans call them of over 66kg! If they are the same species, why are they getting so much bigger over there? im sure mulloway in Australia have access to the same amount of food and i would imagine commercial and reacreational fishing impact would be the same over there also. Does anyone know of jewfish grownig that big over here? Good question Predator, I'm also interested in the below: On average, why does south Africa grow bigger great whites than we do? Our great white are on average 3-4 Metres in length, the average for South Africa is 4-5 Metres in Length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Squidy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I believe it relates to genetic variations between the two populations over such a long period of time rather than availability of feed or fishing pressures. Its the same in a lot of species, if two populations are completely separated for an extended period each will develop its own different traits including variations in size, colour, etc. Still, perhaps its time for fisheries to import some fingerlings from SA for their stocking programmes would love to come across a 66kg model!!!! R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpig Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I have seen with my own eyes a fish of 55.45Kgs caught off a beach on the mid north coast. Now it was 38 years ago. My brother got one 38.6kgs about 12 years ago. These are two biggest i have seen and we used to fish for them hard and in many locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macnaz Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I believe it relates to genetic variations between the two populations I think this may be right, not only are African fish much larger im sure most women will swear African men are as well lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiG_G Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I think this may be right, not only are African fish much larger im sure most women will swear African men are as well lol Hahaha i like that one. Nice call. In regards to the topic, i am pretty sure it will be the 'genetic variations between the two populations' as Mr Squidy said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjc123 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Check this out! 84kg Jewie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRED-ATOR Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 Check this out! 84kg Jewie!!! Yeah i seen this today when i did a google image search for giant Kob lol. they keep referring to this fish as a kob even though it was caught in AUS? he must of rolled it back in the water, there was no way he was going to lift that lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjc123 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Yeah, that must have been caught in WA or SA. Still, it would be great to lock onto one of those around here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewdreamer Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Holy SHEET!!!! What a fish. I am going to bed right now so I can have a "Dream" Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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