Plum
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Seen on the River Crouch April 10. I counted 60 mullet in this shoal averaging 25cm. Anyone else seen an increase in mullet numbers this year?
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A sign of good water quality?
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MikeBz
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There always seem to be lots of grey mullet in marinas so I’ve assumed they are not too fussy about water quality.
LittleSister
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Bonefish Blues
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They're often seen grazing near sewage outflows quite happily. Om nom nom, but that's why you will sometimes see the ones in fishmongers marked up 'bay mullet' to indicate they're from different waters. Certainly a question worth asking if you're buying them.
Sailing steve
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Don't be too sure about water quality.
Mullet can thrive where no other fish would even think about feeding - chances are if there's a big shoal of them all that actually means is everything else with fins and gills has already snuffed it.
Mullet can thrive where no other fish would even think about feeding - chances are if there's a big shoal of them all that actually means is everything else with fins and gills has already snuffed it.
potentillaCO32
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Do they taste ok?
PeterWright
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In my humble opinion, no and I'm a fairly enthusiastic fish eater, having fish about twice a week.
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Bonefish Blues
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Tend to agree, there's better eating fish.
Frayed Knot
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To answer the question: yes. This year and last we've seen many more in the upper Deben than ever before, although not such large shoals of larger fish like that.
Just in the past couple of days though, like this time last year, we've been watching "bait-balls" of several hundred 8 - 12cm fish at Melton - something nobody I've spoken to here has seen before.
Frayed Knot
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I was once talking to a very elderly lady who was born and brought up more or less on the banks of the Deben.
When she was a child her father caught/trapped mullet in the saltings - an important part of the family's diet.
I asked her when the last time was that she ate one.
Her reply was, "A very long time ago - the last time I was bloody hungry!"
oilybilge
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Poor old mullets ... a byword for bad taste in more ways than one 
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Misterbreeze
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My grandfather spent the last years of his working life at sea on the dredger that chugged in and out of Newhaven day in day out, so he fished to relieve the tedium. My mother complained when she was a kid they were fed mullet nearly every day and when I was growing up I never knew her eat fish of any kind, she hated it. And her maiden name was......Mullet!