Not really. Cod do tend to hug the bottom, when I fish the wrecks with shads if you want Cod you risk losing more gear as you tend to keep it within a few turns of the wreck and hop it along. Pollock usually sit higher up above the wreck. Cod will come up in the water column to eat Sprats and in the gin clear waters of Norway you can often see them mid water and almost pick the one you want to catch. All the Haddock I’ve caught both here and in Norway have been on the bottom. They are both from the same family and have a slight under slung mouth. The Icelandic’s refer to Haddock as the trash fish to eat, they do absolutely stink more than anything else when you gut and fillet them though, they reek!
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Not really. Cod do tend to hug the bottom, when I fish the wrecks with shads if you want Cod you risk losing more gear as you tend to keep it within a few turns of the wreck and hop it along. Pollock usually sit higher up above the wreck. Cod will come up in the water column to eat Sprats and in the gin clear waters of Norway you can often see them mid water and almost pick the one you want to catch. All the Haddock I’ve caught both here and in Norway have been on the bottom. They are both from the same family and have a slight under slung mouth. The Icelandic’s refer to Haddock as the trash fish to eat, they do absolutely stink more than anything else when you gut and fillet them though, they reek!
alanmoodysdog
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steaped overnight with one of those white tableet thngs and then slowly boiled..... leave for a hour and .... boy how i miss them
Lefty
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Mushy Peas and Haddock
Amazing the numbers of Haddock being caught off Penzance now. For a cold water fish and global warming their numbers are increasing every year
Good news in case we can’t come to deals on fisheries with Norway, Iceland and the Faroes from 2021, which is where we get the majority of our cod and haddock from. The other potential issue is with no deal on quotas with the EU, they will catch the sustainable amounts in the French and Irish waters before they get to Uk waters.
Otherwise, I have no idea what battered mackerel is like.
Hopefully those non EU countries still want to sell us their fish when we leave the EU.
Personally I’m looking forward to being able to fish for all the Blue Fin Tuna we now have in our waters that we currently can’t sport fish for or U.K. boats don’t have quotas for.
Fisheries was the big reason I voted to leave, we should have a industry like Norway, maybe not with Cod as their range is changing anyway with global warming. We should be managing our our stocks based on independent scientist setting the quotas and we should be exporting fish just like Norway. Madness we are a island and have more sea than other countries in the EU but import the majority fish and allow other EU countries bigger quotas than our own fleet. It’s not sustainable for the environment to transport the majority of your fish from miles away. I’ve fished my whole life, seen with my own eyes the damage the CFP has done to our stocks. If you like Mackerel maybe the EU should stop the super tankers hoovering up entire shoals for fertiliser in our waters.
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Lefty
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Leaving the EU could, in fact should, have an overall positive impact on our fishing industry provided we negotiate the right network of trade deals. That is not a given. We import most of the fish we eat and export most of the fish we catch and to the EU.
But fishing is such a small part of the economy it should not be any kind of priority.
If I recall correctly you didn’t just want to leave the EU you want to leave the Single Market full stop?
But fishing is such a small part of the economy it should not be any kind of priority.
If I recall correctly you didn’t just want to leave the EU you want to leave the Single Market full stop?
Cardiffdaffs
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No idea where you are in the south but Master Superfish in Southwark does great scraps. .
Believe it or not I’m not anti EU or Europe, I travel a lot and I work in aviation. I travel to Norway and fish out there at least once a year, I’m envious of how the Norwegians manage their stocks and wish we could do the same. Fishing is only a small part of our economy as we’ve allowed it to get that way. In Norway it makes up 8% of their exports not to mention the thousands of Brit anglers that go there to fish for sport. I don’t think it’s sustainable or environmentally viable to import the majority of the fish you consume. Fish are a resource and given how much sea we have we should be able to set our own quotas and manage our own stocks for both environmental and economical reasons. Firmly believe we need a more diverse and rounded economy but we are in a club that lets the Germans build the cars, the Spanish fish (they have quotas for Blue Fin in our waters unlike our fleet) and the U.K. is the service industry. Change that and I’d have no problems staying in.
the_holgate_roof
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For me, mushy peas is to accompany either fish and chips or pie, gravy and mint sauce, every other time it’s garden peas