There are numerous other economic activities in the basin whose contribution in the economies of the four riparian states cannot be ignored. These include fishing, which is carried out mainly by communities for subsistence, although of late there has been an increase in fish trade taking place within and outside boundaries of the Limpopo river basin.

There is also a limited amount of commercial forestry in the basin, particularly in parts of South Africa and Mozambique. Suitable climatic conditions for large-scale commercial forestry occur in South Africa in the highveld where plantations are generally confined to the high rainfall belt along the eastern escarpment of the Drakensburg mountains and in northern Mpumalanga. The rest of the Limpopo basin is climatically unsuitable for commercial production of exotic forest species.