The Acme Fish Company in Brooklyn NY buys farmed Atlantic Salmon from Chile, Norway, Quebec etc. They are much larger than the fish being caught here. Probably 100 years ago the fish that swam this water were giants. The demand to eat this species almost wiped them out.
Newfoundland has mostly Grilse in their rivers. Grilse are salmon that have returned from sea after spending just one winter at sea. Multi winter salmon or salmon that have spent two or more winters at sea and are much larger then grilse and unfortunately for are much less common in Newfoundland rivers then Grilse are. I fished Newfoundland for about 8 years in a row and my catch rate of grilse to multi winter salmon was about 10 to 1. In my 17 years of fishing the rivers of Nova Scotia I find this rate to be reversed.
@@Braydencoish Little history on that river; DFO (we) blasted a fishway up the falls in that river way back years ago and then (we) chopper deposited salmon fry up in it's tributaries from the Noel Paul hatchery; the ancestors of what you now reap! I worked on that and cool to see the results! You can put that out there to your buddies, thanks Brayden! Flies were bad then too!
@@Braydencoish Look at your video and how the first guy is holding the fish through the gill covers. I think that is what he is referring to, not good. Also if you are releasing fish, get a more fish friendly net.
@@danhewko1093 the first guy kept the fish , so what does it matter how he held it ? We never released it , it was harvested …. And the net used after the harvest has rubber coating & is specifically designed for catch and release. Can’t get much better of a “ fish friendly net “ , however I have upgraded to a larger size.