FY239 Lucy Marianna extracting haddock & other fish from 90 mm mesh gill nets. Pisces-RFR
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This video shows skipper Anthony Hoskin and Darren Thirlaway retrieving 90 mm gill nets, set 2-3 hours previously. Its one of four videos taken onboard on this trip and available here, the others show the setting of this gear and 68 mm red mullet gill nets; the extraction of fish from large mesh monkfish (angler) gill nets, and the hauling of the red mullet nets.
The camera is allowed to run to give some impression of capture rates. Stills photography and other information of this session are available on the Pisces-RFR website at www.pisces-rfr....
The (evidently new) nets were hauled at 9.00 am, having been set in ca 80 m/ 40 fathoms of water. The video show the catch of haddock, ling, pollock, pouting, scad (horse mackerel) and other fish. The abundance of haddock in these Cornish seas is unusual, the result of an exceptionally strong local year class also picked up in ICES fish stock assessments. Ling are more abundant than I've seen in previous years, but the large cod year class is no longer being caught, at least with this gear, and pollock and whiting are also not as abundance in previous years (see Pisces-RFR website for documentary of these). Also worth noting is the absence of monk, compared to the monk gear retrieved earlier in the day, showing the difference that a small difference in location, plus different fishing mesh size, and soak times, can make.
The sequence starts with the gear already being cleared (i.e fish being taken out of the net) because I was also doing stills photography and a large number of brown crab coming up. There is a discussion about what determines whether crabs are extracted whole or broken out of the net. At 3:00 two dover sole come over the hauler, followed by a ling at 3:50. At 4.13 the buoy for the second set of nets is retrieved, and at 4:50 in the video (not real time) a haddock and lesser spotted dogfish are being extracted, with another haddock and scad being extracted at 6:10 onwards. Haddock can be distinguished by the 'steel grey over pink' upper body, large black 'thumb mark' on the body, and black lateral line. Anthony is extracting a pouting (bib) at 12:50 - the bulging eyes are characteristic. At 13.15 they act quickly when the net getting trapped in the hauler. At 14:30 a large ling is shown. another at around 15:10. Darren switches between extracting fish and untangling and feeding the net through the 'flaking machine' into the net bins. By 16:08 the haul is complete, and at 16 10 Anthony makes an unusual appearance in front of the camera. From 17:00 Darren is gutting haddock, gutting of ling from 17:30, John Dory at 17:55, and then from 18:15 onwards, final washing and icing of fish before going on to retrieve red mullet nets, the subject of another video.
I am really thankful to all fisherman who work very hard so that I may know how does a fish taste like.
Thanks Dave -Y'shire or further N? - You're right, of these 3 Helford boats, netting, might typically see 1- 2 per trip. There is potting for them. What I did notice last autumn, for the 1st time since around 2004, was that they seemed to be getting more crawfish (Spiny Lobster/Crayfish/Palinuras elephas) - not many, one or two per trip turning up and quite a lot just on size or undersize and going back - think there are some still photos on the Pisces website from the trip out on Julie Girl.
thx mrmat - yes would be good to do a video all around the boat. Trouble is she is packed with net bins etc so difficult to move around, other than get a good perch on top of the engine hatch and stay there. I'm using wide angled lens, its much more cramped than it looks. But if you look at the other videos of FY239, the boats in the same fishery (Lady Hamilton, Julie Girl) and look at the stills on the Pisces-RFR website going back to 2004, you will have a pretty good idea from start to finish
This is an interesting methodology, I fish on much smaller boats with great BIG net reels, where you're just fishing from the bow of the boat as you crank the net in on one reel
Have added a line saying that there are 3 others videos covering this trip - thought I had put it in already!
Near whitby Malcolm, We don't see the variation in fish what you get.Mainly cod,pollock,ling and soles.And of course whiting and makerel. Never get to see any Haddock at all these days either. Sadly i have to say though.We are getting totally plagued with seals.I have never known it so bad with them in 35 years.of fishing.
Malcolm MacGarvin, Muchas gracias de compartir este video Suerte y Saludo.....
El gha M
Great videos all the pisces ones.But i have to say in all the videos i have watched.I have only seen one lobster netted. Plenty of large brown crab though.I fish off the north east coast.And get lobsters on a regular basis whilst netting..
hye..if u can take video around the bot...or...may be..from the the beginning of yr journey it will be more fun =)..people like to see..how fisherman do their job from morning until they comeback..wht technique / equipment you all use or other thing...if got something funny/unexpected thing tht much more nicer hehe..gdluck
How to buy for gol fishing that?
Twine & mesh??
Just shows how wasteful fishing is.
I don't like the disdain that the guy in red shows towards the catch, throwing it the way he does.
What a callous fisherman killing crab like that he will be the first to complain about not enough crab bastards now that’s a method of fishing that is not sustainable zero recovery traps would work better
Just wasting those crabs!
I ask them what their strategy is about 1:30 into the video. They will keep what they can sell of crabs that are healthy and which have not just moulted (when the shell is pumped up with water so that they can grow into it, so the flesh is watery). You will know I'm sure, but others may not, that the muscle is in the claws. The body holds the liver which is marketable, but less so, which is why bodies go back in. And as you here them saying, if the nets are new, some crews are more likely to break them out rather than extract them whole, to try and maintain the nets.
Malcolm MacGarvin They're not sustaining the crab fishery at all, just reducing stocks due to lazyness. Undersized and moulters will or at least would have gone on to become marketable later. To be honest there is that much crab on that ground by the looks of it they would be better shooting creels instead of nets.
I don't think the crew would say they are lazy - but rather a balance of time and effort and how easy it is to get crabs out of the nets undamaged. Crews do vary in how much effort they make - In this area, of the boats I have gone out on, Chris Bean / Lady Hamilton seem to put the most effort into extraction, but even there some are broken out of the nets, and some disintegrate when trying to extract, depending on how tangled they are, and how many there are. They actually switched away from creels to netting, and subsequently set up a crab cooking and picking operation, using crabs caught in nets, which has been going for at least 10 years and they tell me provides a good baseload income, to which Lucy Marianna also supplies. I've been going out on the Helford boats and recording since 2004, and the boats have been netting for much longer, without any obvious trend in crabs, and during that time crab potting has, if anything increased - as you say, there are a lot of crabs there. Cornish IFCA does monitor status, although they could perhaps do more to publish data on trends.