Hugh's Fish Fight.

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:07

Is anyone else watching this on Channel 4? It may be a bit of an eye opener for some.

Glaucus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:09

Yep, retarded policies knowen this for ages. Must be a better way, fishing seasons and gps fishing zones or something, get some marine biologists, fishermen, agencies on the case.

buchtis · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:10

Nope. Who's Hugh and what's this fish fight.

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:10

All the perfectly good Cod they had to be thrown away.

quickshot89 · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:15

this is why we need to tell the EU to shove it, the fish is caught, why waste it

jlss · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:38

One haul 20 odd baskets of fish mostly cod thrown straight back in the sea dead, just makes no sense

Minxy · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:41

What a waste. Gutting to see.

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:41

jlss said:
One haul 20 odd baskets of fish mostly cod thrown straight back in the sea dead, just makes no sense

That could have fed 2000 people.

Glaucus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:47

I bloody love mackerel, i so want to try that and his roast potato dish, so simple but looked so good.

aceface57 · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:49

I've been trying out a few of his fish recipe, couldn't get my hands on any mackerel so used Sea Bass, bloody lovely.

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:51

Bit of a price difference between Sea Bass and Mackerel!

Sardines are fantastic value for money.

Is this the episode where he looks at farmed Salmon?

physichull · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:51

It is an absolutely disgusting waste. The EU really annoys me with this!

Glaucus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:52

Sainsburys does mackerel at the fish counter and cheap, compared to salmon/cod

what's so stupid, is the quotes where set up to save fish, how does this fullfill the design requirements.

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:58

Cod in Hastings comes form Scotland because quotas say you can't catch and land it in Hastings.

quickshot89 · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:01

AcidHell2 said:
what's so stupid, is the quotes where set up to save fish, how does this fullfill the design requirements.

it doesnt, it wastes more than it saves

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:03

But the waste isn't ever measured so it can be completely ignore.

Will Gill · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:04

OldCoals said:
Bit of a price difference between Sea Bass and Mackerel!

You can mass catch mackerel on lines, bass live by rocks so are much harder to fish on a massive scale, easiest way the fisherman do it in my village is either illegal tidal nets or harpooning.

The state of the sea just in my tiny little village is painfully obvious, when I used to go fishing there 30 years ago we would come back with 5-6 different species of fish and the ones we landed were the size of me. Nowadays the only fish we catch regularly is mackerel (lucky coz I love it!), sometimes the odd pollock and if I spend all day in the boat and with a massive amount of luck a few legal (42cm+) bass.

trawling has wrecked the seas around cornwall

Danthus · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:08

But quotas are damaging too.

quickshot89 · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:13

OldCoals said:
But quotas are damaging too.

thats the problem in itself

I agree with what the fishermen want, unlimited quota but limited time to catch

Will Gill · 11 Jan 2011 at 22:14

OldCoals said:
But quotas are damaging too.

You are just seeing the plight of the individual fisherman, and yes quotas severly restrict their livelihood, what we can't see now is the massively damaging over fishing that was taking place before we imposed these desperate measures to try and stop our fish stocks from being completely run dry. pair trawlers with nets so small (mesh) and so vast that in a couple of runs they would have enough fish to fill their boats 5 times over, they used to cherry pick the fish they wanted and just dump the dead infant fish. rinse repeat that across the entire industry and times it by 20 years and you can quickly see just how damaging we have been to the fish stocks of the world