Cheap salmon

[jukel123 9,777]

Those fish are black. Prime eating fish are bars of silver. The flesh of those fish in the photo will be rubbery. In the 60s and 70s, before salmon farms, you could earn very good money selling fish. Netsmen and anglers made big bucks. What that lad in the photo took was nothing compared to the old days.

Something drastic has happened to salmon stocks over the last 20 years. Numbers suddenly fell off a cliff.

Personally, I'm happy to put them back now. They are in big trouble as a species.

[jukel123 9,777]

2 hours ago, WILF said:

I like the way they say “Stole” ??……who the f**k did he steal them from ?

Total f***ing nonsense 

You are a f***ing filthy commie lefty.

[brambles 3,405]

No need for fancy gadgets just need a fast sinking line and a good retrieve lol

[mackem 30,042]

13 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

The flips like to dynamite the fish.......crude, but effective !

Cheers.

Carbide bombs mate, seen a few one armed deaf guys in that region over the years, also cyanide fishing. 

[mackem 30,042]

 

[jukel123 9,777]

Farmers used to use a chemical  called Cymag. Poachers cottoned on to the fact that it could quickly take oxygen out of the water and it used to be a favourite  target of farm thieves.  Think you can only get it under licence now. 

[mackem 30,042]

16 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

 Prime eating fish are bars of silver. 

Solid fish, bars of silver fresh run carrying a couple of sea lice

[jukel123 9,777]

Just now, mackem said:

Solid fish, bars of silver fresh run carrying a couple of sea lice

I caught a sea trout last year with 27 sea lice on it. It could only have got that level of infestation migrating past a fish farm. That number of sea lice weakens adult fish and kills smolts. Scottish government give licences to fish farms like confetti. Lots of evidence that fish farms are harming wild salmon and sea trout. But the Scottish government is in bed with the fish farms and ignore the problem. The annoying thing is that the technology exists to have fish farms land locked, but the SNP just sit on their hands. It will bite them on the arse one day.

 

[king 12,038]

21 minutes ago, mackem said:

 

Cracking little documentary that seen it a while back mate  

[South hams hunter 8,996]

13 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I caught a sea trout last year with 27 sea lice on it. It could only have got that level of infestation migrating past a fish farm. That number of sea lice weakens adult fish and kills smolts. Scottish government give licences to fish farms like confetti. Lots of evidence that fish farms are harming wild salmon and sea trout. But the Scottish government is in bed with the fish farms and ignore the problem. The annoying thing is that the technology exists to have fish farms land locked, but the SNP just sit on their hands. It will bite them on the arse one day.

 

And now the c**ts are having our wrasse away aswell

[mackem 30,042]

31 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I caught a sea trout last year with 27 sea lice on it. 

I used to find the odd one or two, I was lucky enough to live a couple of miles from the sea so the fish were really fresh-run, I used to love listening to numbers jumping on a still night in the early hours,just sitting on the bank taking it all in, never forget the experiences. 

[jukel123 9,777]

12 minutes ago, mackem said:

I used to find the odd one or two, I was lucky enough to live a couple of miles from the sea so the fish were really fresh-run, I used to love listening to numbers jumping on a still night in the early hours,just sitting on the bank taking it all in, never forget the experiences. 

Sitting in the dark, with the sounds of a river and the  stars above puts me into a kind of chilled trance. Who needs whacky baccy or booze?