caught some fish yesterday

I fished a few of these. Near the coast birds seem to recognize the lure and never get caught, those in the open sea are a lot more stupid, they keep on diving and diving on it until one is eventually hooked. Paws, wings, beaks...

While we were freeing this from the hook, all other birds had disappeared and only one kept on flying behind the boat, later they flew away together, romantic isn't it.
A few hours later we caught another one, so eventually stopped fishing.


They are very clear in showing how pi..d off they are while being brought onboard
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birdseye said:
off Falmouth in a pals motor boat. Light tackle and we were catching sardines. Delicious

Always aurprised by how few yotties actually fish.
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Pilchards were rebranded very successfully as 'Cornish sardines', they are the same animal. What you caught was almost certainly herring. If you hold them by the dorsal fin one hangs head down the other head up. Can't remember which.
 
You could argue that immediately killing a fish "humanely" and then throwing it away later because it has "gone off" is actually worse than putting it in a cool box still alive. Rest assured, whatever you do to it won't be any worse than what happens to its mates when they get caught by commercial fishermen. The only sin is to kill them for nothing.
 
CreakyDecks said:
You could argue that immediately killing a fish "humanely" and then throwing it away later because it has "gone off" is actually worse than putting it in a cool box still alive.
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That's a very creaky argument, Creaky. If you were certain to be dead in an hour or two, would you rather be hit by a meteor? Or very slowly drowned, on the basis that your corpse might later benefit your killers?

Either fishermen give a damn about the horrible suffering of their catch, or they don't. Let's not muddy the water by claiming there's any nobility of purpose in letting 'em suffer...

...we're not in the third world. We have fridges, and in any case the fish aren't our only food available.

Cheap vodka in an emptied glass-cleaner spray-bottle sounds like a very handy instant fish killer. I wonder how it was discovered? :rolleyes:

Given that easy option, how tight-fistedly callous does a man need to be, to hook a living thing out of its happy healthy existence then let it writhe about in protracted distress?
 
dancrane said:
I wonder if the stuff that puts critters to sleep, would kill anyone feasting on the bodies, too?
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From SWMBO (veterinary) the answer is yes depending on doseage.

She used to wind the local plod up when she was called to RTA's involving deer as they preferred to "dispatch" & butcher whereas she used the drugs which rendered the animal un-edible!
 
Grab fish with a rag around the body, press firmly on choping board and decapitate just behind the gills with Crocodile Dundee fishy knife. Remove hook at leisure ( but all I catch are mackerel , if lucky haha)
 
Killing varies on our boat, depending on size...
Father in laws old police truncheon for the smaller critters, vodka in the gills of the larger ones.
Don't catch much in the Dart, the occasional mackerel maybe. Rather I buy a box of mixed fish for a tenner from http://www.devonscallops.co.uk/seafood-shop/4578973844 . This week got 3 lemon sole, 2 plaice and a lovely monkfish tail, yummy...
 
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