There's always a good feed from bycatch . Crab legs good scissors and a pint of Bass . Soups from big fish skeletons are really nice . A Boulabaisse from small fish is a fish eaters dream . Only thing that counts is , keeping that cash coming in . Fishermen love the sea . Keep the beaurocrats in their soft seats , and in the Seafod Restaurants !
weymuff fisher Hi - no, the usual anchor chains at both ends, but yes it is an unusually short soak time as they are more often an overnight soak. I've just had a quick look through the other video timings I have for that day - I might be going nuts giving out duff info, and they were set the previous day. Unfortunately I was trialling constant video filming with the VIRB so didn't have my other photographic gear with me so no other records to check. But if I remember correctly it was because I was down and wanting to test the VIRB, so Chris set the sole trammels and haddock gill nets between 4.30 and 5.30 am, then we hauled some 68mm 'red mullet' gill nets that had been in overnight at just after 6 am, then back to the haddock nets at just before 10 and then back to the sole nets just before midday. So that would have been 7 hrs + rather than 3 but still unusual. But I'll delete the timings off the sole net descriptions until I get a chance to ask Chris! [I've been on boats out of East Anglian doing drift netting for a couple of hours slipper sole during daylight] - thanks for the heads up, cheers, Malcolm
Watching this make me sick netting catches all sizes all types of fish all the flounders and flukes where less than size limit and they didn't throw back any of them this why fishing sucks for pour anglars who spend the money at tackle shops to catch if any one fish
+muddog2 Thanks for your comment. Fisheries around the world have a lot of problems and its a reasonable concern that you raise. But it may be the perspective from the wide angle and ultra-wide angle that makes it appear that these are under the size limit. The length of the large sole shown in the freeze frame would have been around 45 cm long (18 inches) yet covers only half the width of the roller, the width of which is 31.5 cm; in Cornwall if you check out the IFCA website the minimum landing size for sole is 24 cm (9.5 inches) for plaice is 27 cm (10.6 inches) and for brill and turbot is 30 cm (11.8 ) "from the tip of the nose to the furthest end of the tail". The trammel nets are 300mm mesh size, so will be among the methods taking the largest size classes of these fish; those generating the greatest discards due to being under size limits would generally be trawling. The total catch from 300 m of net was 107 brown crab, 35 spider crab, 47 plaice,12 whiting, 8 sole, 5 lesser spotted dogfish (local Cornish ‘morgie’ (dog)), 2 turbot, 2 John Dory, 2 red gurnard and 1 smooth hound. The total discards were 2 hermit crabs, 18 starfish, all live, and no fish were discarded because they were undersize or due to lack of quota. If you think about it, it is unlikely that fishers would consent to being videoed if they had a big issue with undersized fish. Two things are also worth being aware of - around the UK fish stocks were at a low point 10-5 years ago, but since then have generally been slowly improving, thought there are species of concern such as bass, as you will know as an angler. Second, the big debate amongst fisheries scientists at the moment is whether the current tradition, of setting size limits, which in effect means that anything above that size is disproportionately impacted, is actually part of the problem. Instead, people are considering whether we should be removing e.g. a fixed proportion from each size class to restore the number of big fish, both generally and for each species (it's called 'Balanced Harvesting'), perhaps connected with other ides such as refuges. If that is true, then we would all have to rethink basic principles, as it would mean exchanging the minimum size limit for this new proportional take of stock by size class. If so, it would likely be that only a small proportion of fishing, once age structures had rebuilt, would be for larger fish, and it could be that these would be reserved for fishing methods that attract premium prices such as this boat, plus for recreational anglers which - as you rightly say - generate a lot of economic value for local economies, around the same order as 'commercial' fisheries - which might be good news for you. It would also likely mean that trawlers were actually landing and creating far more income from fish currently discarded as undersized, and we might feel less guilty about things such as whitebait. However it would be a big change in fisheries thinking, including how to actually implement it, and not likely to be done in a rush!
@@thomasrobson9724 Got to agree - ish, money/time is a hard master. I guess every one has an excuse for what they do, depending on circumstances.. cheers.
