Mullet: A Tale of Two Fish - A WGCU Fishing Documentary
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2016
- The long and storied history of Florida's most under-appreciated fish is explored, including its importance as a food source for Native Americans, Spanish explorers and early Florida pioneers, as well as the rise and fall of Florida's commercial mullet fishing industry in the 20th century.
Writer/Director/Editor: Jim Goin
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Mullet: A Tale of Two Fish - A WGCU Fishing Documentary
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Great video and documentary. I grew up in Tampa Bay, next door to Bush Gardens and Smoked Mullet was something to be desired like a delicacy. I left for the Army in 1976 and by the time I returned and retired from the Army in 1997, nobody had heard of Smoked Mullet. Truly a shame. I live in Texas now and nobody here has ever heard of eating Mullet.
I'm 70 and from Louisiana, and I can remember as a kid the Red Fish was considered a trash fish. Now their highly sought-after.
I remember as a kid in New Port Richey going to school and church fund raiser fish fries and it was always Mullet, a fantastic eating fish.
Excellent and very informative video. Been in Florida since I was 9yo and am 68 now. I
have eaten Mullet since I moved here and started catching them off the beach and bridges in the St Augustine area. Now I live in Sebastian a fishing community like Cortez and I eat it as much as I can when I have access. Thanks for this video.
Nice educational video for people like me who love to fish. If you ask me trash or treasure? I would definitely say treasure! Tilapia or Mullet? Hands down mullet for me.
I eat mullet and grits every Sunday morning! Smoked or fried it's awesome! EAT MORE MULLET!
Great video, thank you for spreading the Mullet awareness. Eat more Mullet!
This is a great video. Would like to see some more on aquaculture.
It's garbage
We love mullet here in NZ,usually smoked or boiled,personally i love it raw with skiced onion,tomatoes and cucumber with a bit of cold salted water..yum
Fried ,smoked, or grilled, mullet is an excellent fish! I've never understood why it's not more popular.
Great video.👍
Awesome video and some great statements. I've eaten mullet for years and I love it!!!!!!!
smoked mullet is the best, of course buttonwood is the wood of choice
I use Pecan.
I'm jealous of the Dooley's!!! I want to catch mullet
Used to get smoked mullet in St. Petersburg in the60's.☺
I love that blue boat
I have to correct the info about Mullet in Europe, you can find them way up to the Netherlands and in the entire Mediterranean sea. Funny video, thanks to the makers and tight lines everybody!
Yes I would love to know more about aquaculture of mullet,
Maybe the market for mullet could be jumpstarted like the way king crab was marketed in New England.
King crab was sold in grocery stores for $0.99/lb. back in the 60s. This was to get people to try the product as an alternative to lobster...
Oh my bottarga! First I was interested in catching and eating Mullet-or even finding a place that serves it. But then bottarga! Absolutely will target mullet next trip to the Gulf!
very well done. defiantly changed my mind about grey striped mullet
And if you're on Pine island, The Blue Dog Grill is a great restaurant too sit down and try the Mullet, Smoked Mullet is there Best. Born in Florida 1950, Florida Black Mullet will blow your mind. Enjoy your Mullet Dinner.
This was a fun documentary. I offer up a comment to appease the algorithm.
That farming makes the rich richer it don't give a small man a chance.
Excellent documentary. I'm one of the few who was persuaded about the virtues of mullet before I even watched this video.
Without a doubt one of the best hours I have spent on CZcams. I wish you a hundred thousand more views. This is all coming from someone who pushed Amnd #3 to ban the nets. I have now clearly seen the other side of it. Great work!
I ate a smoked mullet made at a fish shop in St. Augustine. I found it quite boney. However, I'll give it another chance because of this video. I don't know anybody who targets this fish unless they're targeting bait for another species.
my daddy raised 7 kids with a cast net after the net ban we got more mullet than ever they should let us use 200yrds off Gill net one season n cast net only the next season n it wouldn't miss up the mullet population iv benn castnettin since 96 n reaised my own family year round god put them fish here for is to catch n eat
For me mullet is one of the best fish to eat. I rather the smaller ones. Deep fried you eat them completely including the head.
Mullet is only a bait fish where I live (south FL)
Thanks for this. I love a recipee my gran makes with mullet fillets. I want to get it, just mullet with tomato onion garlic salt pepper I think. Ive had a 10ft cast net I have been able to throw, I want to start practicing again and find a mate with a boat. Might get my own eventually and go prawning as well.
No boat necessary. Any dock will do. Sight fishing, see fish, throw net, catch n clean. 😂😂🍻
Good infos
Taiwan dude here
2 Thumbs Up!
The mullet is a foundation card in the Atlantic coast fishery “house of cards” …..Use wisely.
Mullet is the best. You can also use coconut milk with the mullet. Good to eat with a bake taro
Fried Mullet cheese grits and coleslaw should be the official state meal. imho
Can I produce mullet larvae in my hatchery?
People still ate mullet in the 80s and 90s at least in the south because they are a delicious fish fried and smoked and the roe are prized around the world. Gill net bans put many fishermen and families out of business and now as he says mullet are in high above average numbers now that nobody eats them except along coastal areas. I live in Gulf coast and when the grocery stores empty out and people are starving to death, all these mullet are available.
I agree that Mullet are criminally underutilized.
Flo-grown is the best
Gizzards are good too.
Baw that's some good blue crab bait in south Louisiana we don't eat that shit though lol
Joel lyons you haven't tried sandy bottom mullet.
I'm from Louisiana, and I can remember when the Red Fish was considered a trash fish. Now 70, I can remember many times as a kid leaving schools of biting red fish in search of speckled trout (so stupid). So Joe, you might want to give Mullet a try
That's right! You just eat those complicated water roaches, crap and all! 😂
This lady at 33:14. To many restrictions in America. to many regulations. Start there first.
I'll put my Smoked Mullet and Dip up against any of Gourmet Chefs!!
Gotta be Florida Gulf Coast Mullet though...
old day cases net rob reel changes 5 gallen bugs white mullet striped mullet pubilx mark seafood it was the pass somed up or fri mullet case net had food for my family
There are a lot of minutes without sound !!!
Check your hearing aid battery.
Get our goviner too open it back up.
the little guy does not have a chance in seafood anymore...mobile bay
well for all you Canadians this is a mullet
gill netting is illegal now
imagine if aliens did this to us
Gulf cost the west coast is out west
So they guess at % numbers,and some how it becomes fact.The decline of the mullet stock in the past 20 yrs is immeasurable,thanks to the special interests.
6th generation Floridian, grew up eating mullet.
I've been commercial fishing for mullet 30 years and I have just recently in the past 10 years found out this fact about a mallet mullet is not a fish this is a scientific fact mullet is a waterfowl why is it a waterfowl because it has a gizzard and only ducks chickens geese swan and other waterfowl have gizzards mullet is the only species of marine animal or fish if you want to call it that has a gizzard but it is a waterfowl it is not a fish and that is a scientific fact and I love eating mullet been eating it all my life and I also use it for catfish bait for freshwater fishing I'm also a commercial catfisherman love your video
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Heart association said mullet black is more omega 3 and better for you than salmon.its sad I been sewing nets 53 years cca ani't smart they just lie for donations.
Cant be any worse than big bluefish
thank u for that bit of propaganda. the creek indians were armed with guns after the cival war by the washington dc and they were told to kill the caloosa indians. the creek indians now called the seminole indians for ( some reason) ended up with 4 reservations around lake ocochobee florida.
And most sport fishing folks let it good bad in there cooler. Farm raised not healthy.
Aquaculture Mullet????
Blasphemy!!!!!!!
Pictures of floating dead fish are from red tide which is the main cause of all marine life in south Florida not to be sustainable. It has become extremely exacerbated since the start of the 21 century, all due to over development, 151 golf course alone in SWFL, none which are regulated on how much fertilizer they us, more per capita then anywhere else in the United States. Ad all that with all the non-native landscaping of Yankees vacation homes growing in the sandy beach soils on our barrier islands and coasts. Yankees will love Florida to death. Our riches don’t come from gold or silver as we are enriched by the gulf, sounds and estuaries that were and now narrowly a way of life for us fisherfolk, many which have left due to the foreseen horrible future of our once promise land.😢 will the last Florida fisherfolk please bring the flag with them when they leave, the one who’s past generations took a gamble on this state many moons ago.
If you don't want to go out therr,then don't be going !
Just let us fish with gill net just 200 yards n we could catch more fish don't farm Rais fish it just puts more chemicals in the water to keep em healthy I will not eat any farm raised fish
That fish at 6:30 is a carp no a mullet
wrong. it's a mullet.
Sorry pal, that's a mullet.
Nothing like fresh caught smoked mullet. Here we are in 2024 calling men in dresses women. Chicken vs mullet case needs to be re-opened.