There are many kinds of fish in the waters of the Gambia River and the ocean by the coast. People catch fish here all year round. Starting in the 1990s, many tourists started coming to fish off the coast of The Gambia and in the Gambia river. There are many spots to fish by the shore, including by the reefs, sandbars and rocky places. The sport fishermen usually charter boats near Denton Bridge, which crosses the Gambia River estuary on the Banjul-Serrekunda Highway. They pay guides to go out on big motor boats to fish for large ocean fish, like Tarpon, Snapper, Grouper, Guitar fish, Thread fin salmon, Jacks, Cat fish, Barracuda, and Rays. These are big fish that can weigh between 4 and 400 pounds!
I don't know all the names of the freshwater river fish. But, our editor found out there are 109 different kinds of freshwater fish in the river. They include several kinds of catfish, Bull sharks (who swim in from the ocean), Moon fish, Mud fish, Grass-eaters, Bonga shad, Flagfin mojarra, Aba, Jewelfish, Kafue pike, Vindu, Heterotis, Tiger-fish, African carp, Roundbelly pellonuline, Sicklefin mullet, African brown snapper, Tarpon, Cornish jack, Elephant snout, Mormyrids, Flathead mullet, Togo killifish, Ansorge's fangtooth pellonuline, Nile tilapia, Reticulate knifefish, Snake-head, Elephant fish, Bichir, Sompat grunt, Largetooth sawfish, West African lungfish, Silver fish, Mango tilapia, West African Pygmy herring, Upsidedown catfish, Mandi, Globe fish, Guinean tilapia, Redbelly tilapia, and Thorny freshwater stingray. (There will be a test later on all these names...just kidding!)
Many of these are good to eat, but, some would only be good to look at in an aquarium.
Now I know why crocodiles mostly eat fish...there are so many kinds of them!
Muhammed and I thought you might like to see the small boats our fishermen use to catch fish from the river.
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