A.B.F. Figures & Results
A.B.F. Figures & Results
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The A.B.F. has tagged a total of 32,753 fish since 1990, the pie chart above left
represents the break down of tagged fish.
Of that total tagged, 77% were sailfish (red) with 27,548 fish tagged, 8%
were striped marlin (green) with 2,999 fish tagged, 8% were fish other than billfish
(yellow) such as
giant trevally, shark, tuna, etc. with 2,823 fish tagged, 3% were broadbill
swordfish (orange) with 891 fish tagged, 3% were black marlin (black) with 970 fish
tagged and finally with 1%
blue marlin (blue) with 386 fish tagged. The graph above right represents in red the total of all billfish reported caught in Kenya (tagged, released or killed). While the black shows the total of billfish tagged. The graph represents how successful the A.B.F. has been in educating the fishing concerns the importance of conserving this incredible fishery. Back in the early nineties around twenty percent of all billfish were been tagged compared to 2008 when nearly ninety percent of all billfish were tagged. The graph below shows the different billfish that were tagged from 1992 to 2009 (please note that sailfish numbers are indicated on the left axis while the number of all other species are on the right axis). |
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Kenyan Seasonal Catches (includes all fish reported tagged, released or dead)  |
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The graph above shows the entire Kenyan sport fishing catch of billfish and shark (tagged, released
or
killed) per season from 1984 to 2009 (again only sailfish on left axis).
Record seasons include sailfish in 94/95 with 7,051 fish, striped marlin
in 98/99 with 902 fish, broadbill swordfish in
97/98 with 219 fish, blue marlin in 05/06 with 135 fish and black marlin in 06/07 with
260 fish. The
vast improvement and number of boats and techniques over this 25 year
period is certainly a factor that should be taken in to account.
 The graph to the right is the annual Kenyan catch of yellowfin tuna,
dorado, giant trevally, wahoo and kingfish.(dorado
and yellowfin tuna numbers on left axis). Numbers have remained steady
for all but the dorado who's numbers have been steadily down since
1994 when 7,275 fish were caught compared to 2006 with only 1331.An interesting period between 2000 and 2005 saw an huge explosion in the mantis prawn population all along the Kenyan coast, attracting massive numbers of yellowfin tuna coming in closer to shore than usual and reaching record size (over 100kgs), kingfish numbers also spiked over this time. A factor influencing these figures that should be taken into consideration was that very poor numbers of billfish saw boats targeting game fish more often than usual.  PDF file available:Tagging figures 2008 (294 Kb) Species tagged per season (46 Kb) |
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