Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
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Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
Just a wee heads-up Guys and Gals as to the future of our beloved sport if we just sit idly by and twiddle our thumbs.
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
gannet wrote:Just a wee heads-up Guys and Gals as to the future of our beloved sport if we just sit idly by and twiddle our thumbs.
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well done mate have to agree with you.. the bass will be next if they open it up on the south east.......
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
that's an insane haul of mullet!!!! poor fish!!
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
Another slow growing fish
It will be a long time before they replenish.

It will be a long time before they replenish.

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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
Whats the market for mullet
The whole site is a bit mad, I have herd of train spotters but trawler spotters. A pic of any large haul of fish looks bad in today's world.

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jeese man. and if that was'nt bad enough i watched that new north sea programme the other night on bravo and it showed the supertrawller making 300 and 400 tonne trawlls off the shetland isles for mackeral. one of his trawlls was approx 100 tonnes of by-catch that got dumped overboard dead for the gulls to george themselves on
. i never even thought that for every 300 tonne trawll of mack those guys got there might be 1 or 2, 100 tonne trawlls of fish they did'nt deem worth while sorting so was just dumped back dead
some serious ammount of fish annihilated














Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
gannet wrote:Just a wee heads-up Guys and Gals as to the future of our beloved sport if we just sit idly by and twiddle our thumbs.
http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/ ... hoto=97990
wow cool!
imagine if it was bass

the haul would be worth some money then


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bass virgin wrote:gannet wrote:Just a wee heads-up Guys and Gals as to the future of our beloved sport if we just sit idly by and twiddle our thumbs.
http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/ ... hoto=97990
wow cool!
imagine if it was Bass![]()
the haul would be worth some money then![]()
I hope i never see Bass getting landed on irish ports like this ever,and mullet included .Funny thing is Bass virgin the Irish Bass would only be only worth its weight in money when it s served to you in a michelin star restaurant and not the pockets of some poor commercial fishing company


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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
But what market is there for these mullet? Can they be eaten???????????????????
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God grant that I may live to fish, For another rainy day.
But when my final cast is made, I then most humbly pray.
When nestled in your landing net, As I lay peacefully asleep.
You'll smile at me and judge, That I'm "good enough to keep"!
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
the poles would eat them anyway.
they eat conger even.
i'd say they would eat just about any fish.
they eat conger even.
i'd say they would eat just about any fish.
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
I think the market for mullet would be the French....
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
luke the fisher is right most mullet catchs are exported out of the country.
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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
Do the french eat them?? 

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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
trout hunter jnr wrote:Do the french eat them??
Yeah they are eaten in some countries.
Hugh Fearnly- Whittingstall has cooked them a few times on his programmes which probably doesnt help

Imagine if a market for them developed over here and how easy it would be to completely wipe them out from areas.

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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
That picture makes me sad
To be fair Colin, Hugh has cooked pretty much every fish, and as far as i know he is a supporter of sustainable fishing/farming. Although i guess your right, it cant help matters.





colin c wrote:Hugh Fearnly- Whittingstall has cooked them a few times on his programmes which probably doesnt help![]()
To be fair Colin, Hugh has cooked pretty much every fish, and as far as i know he is a supporter of sustainable fishing/farming. Although i guess your right, it cant help matters.
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fishinmidget wrote:That picture makes me sad![]()
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colin c wrote:Hugh Fearnly- Whittingstall has cooked them a few times on his programmes which probably doesnt help![]()
To be fair Colin, Hugh has cooked pretty much every fish, and as far as i know he is a supporter of sustainable fishing/farming. Although i guess your right, it cant help matters.
The thing about it too is, there is a comment on one of the photos were someone asks him is there any money in mullet and he said he didnt know

So did he just see a shoal of mullet and think i'll have them??I wonder where did they end up??:evil:
A sad photo indeed.
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Lads can someone explain the title of this thread to me as I'm lost here
This was a UK vessel landing in a UK port, there is no ban on bass fishing in the UK
What a lot of Irish anglers don't seem to know is that neither is there a (complete) ban on commercial fishing of bass in Ireland and never was
Stop rest your typing fingers I can hear all the frantic typing to correct me but I am not wrong
The ban only applies to Irish registered vessels, The ban may even be un-sound in EU law but lets not get into that one
What you guys need to do to be constructive is get involved in this thread if you're not already there!
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bulletin%20board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25207
P.S mullet are commercially fished here in Cork Harbour for donkey's years, mostly by small boats

This was a UK vessel landing in a UK port, there is no ban on bass fishing in the UK

What a lot of Irish anglers don't seem to know is that neither is there a (complete) ban on commercial fishing of bass in Ireland and never was






Stop rest your typing fingers I can hear all the frantic typing to correct me but I am not wrong

The ban only applies to Irish registered vessels, The ban may even be un-sound in EU law but lets not get into that one

What you guys need to do to be constructive is get involved in this thread if you're not already there!
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bulletin%20board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25207
P.S mullet are commercially fished here in Cork Harbour for donkey's years, mostly by small boats

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Re: Mullet today Bass tomorrow?
[quote="Mohawk"]Lads can someone explain the title of this thread to me as I'm lost here
Hello Mohawk,remember the old adage,a picture is worth a thousand words? As the original poster I was hoping this would be a wake up call to bass anglers both in Ireland and the UK to sit up and take action before similar hauls of bass are landed here. Many of these anglers fish for mullet so perhaps it may strike a chord with them.

Hello Mohawk,remember the old adage,a picture is worth a thousand words? As the original poster I was hoping this would be a wake up call to bass anglers both in Ireland and the UK to sit up and take action before similar hauls of bass are landed here. Many of these anglers fish for mullet so perhaps it may strike a chord with them.
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Al and Jordan wrote:jeese man. and if that was'nt bad enough i watched that new north sea programme the other night on bravo and it showed the supertrawller making 300 and 400 tonne trawlls off the shetland isles for mackeral. one of his trawlls was approx 100 tonnes of by-catch that got dumped overboard dead for the gulls to george themselves on![]()
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. i never even thought that for every 300 tonne trawll of mack those guys got there might be 1 or 2, 100 tonne trawlls of fish they did'nt deem worth while sorting so was just dumped back dead
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Unfortunately, that is not even a large catch for those Scottish paelagic supertrawlers. One boat was given a quota of 4,000 tonnes of mackeral last year - it took it in 4 hauls. Also it is often the case that when the mackeral are netted, they are sampled before being pumped aboard the boat. If it is found that the average size of the fish is too small, they let the catch slip i.e. open the cod end. While conducting mackeral egg surveys in the North Sea, Marine Scotland have come across hundreds (if not thousands) of tonnes of dead mackeral floating in oily slicks. These super trawlers still manage to operate at a significant profit margin (somewhere in the region of 30% I think) and are moored up for over 6 months of the year.
But want to know the funniest thing? Even with the illegal dumping of huge quantities of fish and their refusal to carry observers aboard their boats, Scottish and Irish (as the mackeral in Irish waters are from the same migratory stock) mackeral has attained MSC accreditation. Makes a mockery of the whole system.
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