{"id":48877,"date":"2022-05-26T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/tjokka-se-skouspel-op-die-seebodem-20220525-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:50:40","slug":"tjokka-se-skouspel-op-die-seebodem-20220525-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/tjokka-se-skouspel-op-die-seebodem-20220525-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tjokka se skouspel op die seebodem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOns het in die water afgesak. Dit was baie troebel, die sig was drie, vier meter voor ons. Toe gaan sit ons doodstil op die bodem en toe . . .\u201d <\/p>\n

D\u00edt kan nou klink soos die openingstoneel in \u2019n rillerfliek, maar vir Russell Sadler, inwoner van Kaap St. Francis, was dit \u2019n wonderw\u00eareld wat op daardie dag vir hom oopgegaan het.<\/p>\n

\u201cEk dink daar daar was al meer mense in die ruimte as wat daar mense was wat die skouspel van die tjokka se broeiseisoen op die seebodem beleef het, s\u00ea Russell wat di\u00e9 unieke belewenis twee jaar gelede vir die eerste keer beleef het.<\/p>\n

Die aanloop tot Russell se belewenis het begin by \u2019n mariene-fotograaf wat vir Russell, kam- pioen-lewensredder en skipper, gevra het om hom na die seebodem naby die Kromriviermonding te vergesel wanneer hy die tjokka tydens hul broeiseisoen gaan afneem.<\/p>\n

Met volle duiktoerusting het die twee op daardie dag afgesak na die bodem en doodstil bly sit sodat die versteurde sand en ander elemente weer kon afsak bodem toe.<\/p>\n

Russell s\u00ea hy sal nooit die stilte wat hulle omvou het vergeet nie. \u201cEk kon net die borrels van ons duiktenks hoor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadat die versteurde sand en ander sediment afgesak en Russell se o\u00eb aangepas het by die lig onder die water, was hy in verwondering. \u201cToe sien ek die veld van oranje vingertjies wat die eiersakkies is van die tjokka. <\/p>\n

\u201cOns het stil bly sit en na \u2019n rukkie het die tjokka begin uitkom in allerhande kleure soos don-kerrooi, bruin tot spierwit. Almal broeipare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Die tjokka-broeiseisoen is Oktober en November.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan kom die tjokka terug in pare. Teen hierdie tyd is die wyfie se eiersakkie al volgroeid in haar mantel. Nadat die mannetjie, wat baie groter is as die kleiner wyfie, die eiers in haar sakkie bevrug het, sak die wyfie af na die seebodem waar ander bevrugte eiers al l\u00ea en laat haar sakkie vol bevrugte eiers daar los,\u201d vertel Russell.<\/p>\n

Maar tydens die bevrugtingsproses en die l\u00ea van die eiers op die seebodem, is die vyand heeltyd teenwoordig. Russell beleef dit elke keer: <\/p>\n

\u201cDaar is allerhande vyande wat op die loer l\u00ea vir die tjokka-mannetjies en – wyfies, want hulle weet die tjokka is op hul mees weerlose tydens die bevrugtingsproses. Die skeurtandhaaie wag by die eierveld, dan is daar ook die swart pylstert wat soos UFO\u2019s inbeweeg en hul vlerke oor die wyfies sit wanneer hulle hul eiers gaan l\u00ea. <\/p>\n

\u201cNadat hulle die wyfie gevreet het, gaan hulle weer \u2019n entjie weg en wag vir die volgende tjokka-wyfie wat haar eiers gaan l\u00ea. Dit is ongelooflik om hierdie drama te kan aanskou \u2013 dit is soos om na n fliek sonder klankbaan te kyk. Dit is \u2019n ander w\u00eareld daaronder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Op gewone vlak \u2013 veral in di\u00e9 van die tjokka-vangsbedryf, is dit interessant om op te let dat tjokka-bronne nog so ryk voorkom in die Indiese Oseaan rondom Kaap St. Francis, St. Francisbaai, Jeffreysbaai en Algoabaai.<\/p>\n

Russell glo dit hou verband met navorsing en die goeie bestuur van die bron. \u201cDie tjokkaboot-eienaars werk hand aan hand met die weten-skaplikes. Die navorsing word befonds deur heffings per kilogram-verkope wat die booteienaars betaal.<\/p>\n

\u201cVolhoubaarheid van enige bron kom neer op goeie navorsing, die raad van die wetenskap-likes te volg en binne die perke bly wat gestel word. Die tjokka-bedryf reguleer homself baie goed. <\/p>\n

\u201cDaar is vang-seisoene en geslote seisoene om die tjokka-bron te bly beskerm. En van die geslote seisoene is juis tydens die broeiseisoen sodat die tjokka weer sy getalle kan aanvul. Dit is ook die tyd wanneer ons die wetenskaplikes uitneem na die tjokka-broeiplekke op die seebodem sodat die navorsing gedoen kan word. Ook sodat die tjokka-skouspel verfilm kan word.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dit laat \u2019n mens wonder hoeveel maande van die jaar word tjokka aktief gevang.<\/p>\n

\u201cDie oop- of geslote seisone is nie in sement gegiet nie, maar oor die algemeen kan die oop seisoen tot agt maande van die jaar wees. Maar wanneer die wetenskaplikes bevind die bron is onder druk, word die geslote seisoene langer gemaak.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019n Interessante feit is dat die spesifieke tjokka wat ons hier kry, die tweede gewildste in die w\u00eareld is. Die meeste word na Europa uitgevoer en \u2019n bietjie gaan na die Ooste.\u201d <\/p>\n

Vir Russell, wat sy eie maritieme logistieke maatskappy bedryf, is die tegniese en ekonomiese aspekte van die tjokkabedryf nie so be- langrik as die tjokka-skouspel op Suid-Afrikaanse seebodem wanneer dit die tjokka-broeiseisoen is nie.<\/p>\n

\u201cWanneer daardie tjokka in al die kleure in-kom en jy weet jy is een van \u2019n paar mense op aarde wat dit kan beleef, dan is dit baie spesiaal. Voor ek twee jaar gelede vir die eerste keer met die mariene-fotograaf afgegaan het, het mense vir my ges\u00ea ek sal nie kan glo wat ek sien nie. En ek moet eerlik s\u00ea ek kon dit nie glo nie.<\/p>\n

\u201cDit is life changing<\/span>, \u2019n mens voel dit diep binne.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wetenskaplikes en mariene fotograwe duik gereeld tydens die tjokka-broeiseisoen na die seebodem by Kaap St. Francis. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Foto: Don Hunter<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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