Hammering the mackeral.

[mick dunn]

Has anyone been watching the trawlermen series on tv. Last night was the biggest trawler in the fleets in Scotland. This trawler was full of modern technology. The skipper used top notch sonar to detect a shoal of mackeral. In one swoop of the net 500 TONS were scooped up. This was worth £300,000. This one scoop completed the trawlers fishing.

I,ve read on here about catching a few to many,the most was 100.

It makes you think.

How many fish is there in 500 tons.

Mick.

[Codfather]

Cracking series, missed last nights.

500 ton !!! thats some weight for a single drop

Was it not 5 ton or maybe 50 ton

Still beats a torpedo tho lol.

[Oblickta]

There's a lot of it about

http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69023

The trouble is that anglers seem more content to call other anglers for having "one" too many.

500 tonnes in one foul swoop eh! I make that over a million fish, the mind boggles

[mick dunn]

Double check with the other half. Defo 500 ton.

[davem2005]

Double check with the other half. Defo 500 ton.

Yep..thats right...one drop and they were back to market. Kinda makes a mockery ofa few carrier bags dumped off the peir ends.

I was going to bring up the mackrel slaughter at the next nsfc meeting which is incidentally on the first tues in july if anyone has any comments to raise. But when the north sea annual limit is 1000 tons boats like that whould anly need to do two trawls.

Awesome technology but then that is exactly why we have no fish for us ...a single boat has more catchng power than a whole fleet 30 years ago...so the laws need updating to bring them into line with modern technology.

Hence the marine bill white paper.

Dave

[mark]

I was late back last night so my other half stuck in on dvd for me, over 500 tons for sure - so much that they don't actually haul the net back in, they lower a pump into the net and pump the fish out

[gogs]

i haven't seen any of these trawlerman progs but i can only imagine what those blinkered skippers have to say about their catch's (blah blah blah theres plenty out there and where doing no harm) probably the same skippers i have witnessed off peterhead supplying factory ships from the commie (ex) countries getting their holds hovered for mackerel and i can only assume there was a fisheries man on board the factory ship because when they hit their limit they moved of 20 yrds and dumped the rest and the next trawler moved in. sickening sight seeing thousands of gulls move in and feast on the wasted fresh mackerel.****ed me off so much that i have never ventured up that way since.

[Codfather]

All mod cons super trawler ey.

Hope it stays away from Hartlepool, would have to get me snorkel and winedy drill out lol.