The Greatest Shoal On Earth – it’s an Exaggeration!

An article about South Africa’s massive “Sardine Run” – termed ‘The Greatest Shoal on Earth’ – and under the banner of science, is misleading, writes veteran fisherman, Jack Walsh.

I can’t believe that I missed the article, but I did. Sardines (pilchards) is, afterall, the resource I cut my teeth on when I decided that to be an effective skipper I needed to study a bit of fisheries science.

I am not a scientist! However, science and scientists are so important in this technologically advanced world today that I seldom like to criticise them. Nevertheless, when such a misleading article under the banner of science appears, which I can only believe has not been peer reviewed, I feel I must put the record straight.