Good Grief ...... The Price of Fish

[Norman]

Obviously like everyone else I`m fairly .. well "unpleased" at the weather lately. So, with nothing else pending and keeping well in with the missus we decided to have a quick butchers around silver link today (handy to check on the boat of course). Noticed there`s now a new M&S there so in goes for a look.
Now to be fair I`m not a shopper and simply if I think we want something I just pick it up and pay for it at the till, (I worry the wife sick with this attitude cos if I`m ever sent shopping I come back with twice as much as she ever needed, so luckily I dont get sent very often)
However back to the topic, since we was just mooching and being the start of the fishing season and this M&S having a fairly good new food hall I got to looking at the price of fish ......................
My goodness I didn`t realise cod and haddock circa £20/kilo wow
They were well presented in little wrapped cartons but I seen a couple of cod fillets (sorry tommy codling fillets) that I may or probably would not have kept as they were so small, cut and presented at £6.50 the pair ....

Goodness it means that at street value this picture must be worth about £80 ............ wow my cats certainly get fed well


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cheers

Norm

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I told you mate .... talk about fat cats lol.

[mark]

aye its shocking indeed, but whats even more shocking (to me anyway) is the price the guys that have to go out and catch the stuff get, I know commericals aren't everyone's favourite people, but last weeks prices at peterhead, scrabster and grimsby make interesting reading as to how much the large supermarket chains are screwing not only us, but the commercial fleet as well

medium haddock at 60 to 70p a kilo in grimsby! from which the commercial boats have to cover all their costs/wages. would you have fancied been on the deck of a trawler in the north north sea last week for that amount of money?

then look at the supermarkets take, when you see the counter prices

Prices on Mkt

SHT: Latest Fish Prices

Caley Fisheries of Peterhead, Scotland, daily Peterhead fish landing prices

[jimmy]

£20 a kilo,very expensive for a bit of fish,saying that like i can spend more than £20 on bait and blank so really £20 is cheap LMFAO
seriously tho,its just a blatant rip off,Norman check the price of Bass mate

[KeithB]

The father-in-law asked me for some ling for the DOG

No chance!!

He's been buying it from Hewitsons on the quay, not sure how much it is but apparently it works out 30p per doggie meal.

I told him I might be able to spare some crappy cod if we get any!

[jimmy]

The father-in-law asked me for some ling for the DOG

No chance!!

He's been buying it from Hewitsons on the quay, not sure how much it is but apparently it works out 30p per doggie meal.

I told him I might be able to spare some crappy cod if we get any!

[Charlie_Thompson]

payed about £25 for 15 scallops on Saturday, don't even know if they were hand caught

[boblydon]

good excuse for getting a boat to save money on buying fish.....not that i used to catch many mind

[Charlton]

pre packed, can't be fresh either Norm, me I just wait until I can scrounge some, or if desperate down to the fish quay. Certainly wouldnt pay that price, of course they have overheads, CO wages, staff wages, car for management etc, come on Norm it has to be paid for.

[northeast1]

I chuck all but 1 cod back and every ling that can go back because i have no one that wants it after the 1st couple of weeks of the new boat season. Gone are the days when i was a kid that the local fresh fish shop would take anything i caught as long as fresh and not gutted.

Never got much mind 20p a mackerel and £1.50 a codling of 2-3lb anything bigger and we worked out a price. Never cared in them days £12 a wreck trip so never took many to pay for the day out if family and friends never wanted them.

I would say in a year now ..in total i kill 150 mackerel, 10 codling or less and as few ling as i can to take home. Also take maybe 20-30 sandeel and then i keep about 20 river trout a year also, everything else goes back.

[ScottyJim]

Used to be the same for me. No one wanted a cod or two. That was until they found out that it was skinned and filleted. They're breaking down the doors these days with fights in the street. On the price of fish, it's quite simple market economics. You charge as much as you can get away with, that people are prepared to pay. Not until (all off) Joe Public says "enough is enough" and stops buying fish, for a few weeks, will anything happen. The price will then come down, or the trawlers will go out of business. Now that's a thought.

[The Great Wallsendo]

I've got a mini farmers market going on at my work...there's a bloke who's got chickens, I give him fish - he gives me eggs...might try and score a chicken off him this year

[AndyJames83]

it got to the point last summer i was throwing 4-5lb ling back as i was catching that many off the Sarah JFK. My personal best was a Ling of 13lb but had loads around the 7-8lb mark. I prefer the ling to the cod (catching and eating) but theres only so many ling you can fit in them orange buckets!! Biggest Cod (ling) was only about 5lb.

Hoping for more of the same this year but change in job means no more weekday trips out with skinner. Really hoping to break me Pollock duck this year, never caught one and a lad i was fishing with last year had one just over 14lb! lovely fish

[mick dunn]

I bought a fillet of cod from Morrisons and it was like eating cardboard.
Tastes much nicer caught by yourself even after it has been frozen.