do you really need that many??

[ralph]

just a bit concerned with the amount of fish some people take home...do you really need that many? i never take any more than 3 or 4 fish home and usually its the ones who have swallowed the hooks and are going to die anyway, if people keep takeing bags full of fish home there anrent going to be any left! i remembera post a while ago where someone was complaining about pike anglers takeing all the small coleies from a certain pier, well i think this might happen in a few years with makky etc...so next time your bagging up on the makky, just think \'do i really need to take this fish?\'

cheers, Ralph

[CODHEAD]

wot about the russian factory ships that just sit of the coast


gary

[ralph]

not shure what a russian factory ship is but if its takeing our fish it shouldnt be there (in my opinion) i bet we\'d get hasseled if we went over to russia and sat of their costline takeing all their fish

[RobAdair]

Bit of a touchy subject Ralph. While nobody on this site condones the taking of undersize fish or wanton massacre of the sizeable ones, it\'s all to do with personal preferences as to the useage of the fish.
A great many of us anglers take the mackerel and sandeel and freeze them down for the winter pike fishing season or use them straight away on the boat. Lets face it, if you can catch and freeze them for pennies as opposed to paying top whack for them in the winter, what makes good economical sense?
Yes, the minority of people who take huge bags (or worse still leave them rotting on the pier) give us all a bad name, but preaching to the converted on this site isn\'t going to change their attitudes is it?
By the way, if you gut hook a lot of fish you should give circle hooks a try, they work for me and save a lot of undersize flatties from a premature death.

[mark]

not shure what a russian factory ship is but if its takeing our fish it shouldnt be there (in my opinion) i bet we\'d get hasseled if we went over to russia and sat of their costline takeing all their fish

russian factory ships crawl our waters in the summer months. fishing mainly for pelagic species (ie herring and mackeral) as there is little in the way of quaota restrictions. basically they hoover up everything they can lay their hands on, process and freeze it on board and then off back to the baltic to unload.

I was in the western Isles 2 years ago when they turned up. mackeral every where before they arrived caught none the following week.

[LING_BASHER]

Two years ago i seen a Russian factory ship 1 mile off south shields pier....WHAT A SIZE that must take some fish, infact From what i am told smaller ships dock with it at sea and off loads the fish so that it can make more space in its holding ice taks for more fish.Bet you could park 15+ busses on the deck

[tich]

This is the tipe of thing that realy gets my back up ... why \'o\' why do the trawlers have to come in so close? they have the whole of the sea to cast their nets in/on and they have to chuck them out 1/2 a mile off Wbay / Blyth/hartlepool ect, why not try the fyords.. Why not cos the fish are to deep and the chances of losing a net becouse of the depth is to expencive. Also I would guess that thers some local law or European law that forbids it unless its in U K waters,, We are always the country that seems to get creamed when it comes to fishing quotas.. Or is that, the way I read things... Idont have a probalem with fishing trawlers , we All have to make a living one way or another but the the way they do it is so indiscriminate,,,,, Im a butcher and proud of it,, We buy all of our meat from a local abbotoir . but we can see how many lambs, pigs ect are left \'cos you can count them or at least see how many you have in a field.You can\'t do that with the sea they just Vacume all & everything up.and then IF they have caught to much dump the WASTE over the side, and Im not talking about some kid thats caught a few doz macky on Blyth pier.. you are looking at loads & loads of them what ever type of fish....... Just dumped. even the lucky few might make it to some sort of fertiliser , to feed the roses,,,, well thats another rant over.... Cheers Tich

[willywetegg]

I know where your coming from Ralph as I have made comments on the pier when people are struggling to carry bin bags full of Mackeral. But put the shoe on the other foot you could have people that read your second post and say what makes those fish OURS. I would probably be one of the first that had a go at them but those fish belong to no one mate.

[willywetegg]

Half a mile Tich if only mate. Have a look at Blyth pier and try about fifty yards, that is how it was yesterday.

Jim.

[CODHEAD]

THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS NO BODY GIVES A DAM (WHITE HALL ECT ALL SITTING THERE IN LEATHER CHAIRS) ALSO JOE PUBLIC, I CAN GO BACK TO THE 70S WHEN THE SPRAT BOATS USED TO COME IN .I CAN GO BACK TO WHEN THE SEA USED TO BOIL WITH SPRAT ECT WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME ANYBODY SEEN A BOIL,WE MUST WAKE UP TO THIS PROBLEM



GARY

[blackvelvet]

You mean the boat beside the pier ????? was it netting???? I was looking for his orange ball thought maybe he was salmon fishing??
Remember 3 years back when Blyth had about 9 russian factory ships in the harbour, huge rust buckets they were. The whole of the foreshore was littered with stinking herring, it was foul.
Blackvelvet

[Hiram.A.Biff]

You mean the boat beside the pier ????? was it netting???? I was looking for his orange ball thought maybe he was salmon fishing??
Remember 3 years back when Blyth had about 9 russian factory ships in the harbour, huge rust buckets they were. The whole of the foreshore was littered with stinking herring, it was foul.
Blackvelvet

LADY SEA ANGLER.. DIGS BAIT..OWNS A BOAT!!!
TELL ME YOUVE GOT CRABS AND iLL MARRY YOU BABY!!!!

PL:LEASE take that as a joke!!