just had a bit of a heated debate on a fishing forum , a guy saying how irresponsible commercial fishermen are, and that they all should be "stopped dead" by the government or there will be no bass left in our sea!! he was complaining about a fishing trip he was on at the weekend and that he didn't catch any fish , and blamed it all on us fishing with nets! I explained everything that we do to keep the fishery sustainable, and then he goes on to compare us to Indians hunting the bufalos..........wtf!!! bloody keyboard warriors!! he was saying how he would rather see farmed bass from the Maldives in restaraunts than local bass caught by local fishermen! personally if I go out for a meal if I am on holiday I would rather eat something local than shipped for days from overseas!!
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Discuss blood boiling in the Boilers area at Plumbers Forums
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Rickster123
Was it on WSF? I blame the trawlers too, even now that I'm carp fishing lakes!
hahah i don't have much interest in fishing with a rod either mate! i have always been into gillnetting and lobster potting and being out at sea! the hunter coming out in me ha! and with the profit i buy plumbing tools you see, so i can make more money and be quicker at it with new tools, then i spend the plumbing profit on fishing gear so i can make money to buy plumbing stuff.........and on it goes!!!
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lame plumber
factory ships and pelagic trawlers will be the death of fish stocks in the end (cant spell pelagic)
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Dotty
Pray explain gilnetting.
Not wading into the argument but just wondering if it's a sustainable format of fishing.
I hate the idea of throw back
Not wading into the argument but just wondering if it's a sustainable format of fishing.
I hate the idea of throw back
I have been doing it for years using 3 5/8" size mesh , I have never caught an undersized bass to date, I catch salmon in them witch I have to throw back due to it being illegal for me to land any of, I also catch mullet whe fishing for them that I can sell but for a low price. from 1st of September the legal size of bass that we can land will rise from 36cm to 42cm , and in 2016 the minimum legal mesh size of the nets we can use will be 110mm (so all me nets will be then worthless) but I assume it will be worth it in the end, as the bass we will be landing in the 110mm mesh will be bigger so will have much more chance to reproduce, so we as commercial fishermen do look after the fish stock, we notch lobsters that carry eggs so that iw would be illegal to land them till the notch grows out (5yrs aprox I think), we only have quota to land 50kgs of mackerel per month !! the only thing I throw back other than that is dogfish and small spider crabs, most of the dogfish ar dead, they will only get thrown back in winter months, ill keep them for lobster bait n the summer, compared to big trawlers im very sustainable!!
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Straight to the point lol, I stay in a fishing town , n they all men there nets n shot awa, pure fisher talk in the boozers ,,, earplug needed
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PlumbBobBob
totally agree, can't they keep what they catch and just not go out for as long? or is that too simple a solution?
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