shanemax
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Where is the correlation between fishing and cutting Asparagus.
Fishing boats near Gunfleet Sand
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Daydream believer
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Try to keep up
#8 suggests that fishermen are not doing the job by choice
Even though my suggestion may have been a little flippant, it demonstrates that there are lots of opportunities other than fishing.
Picking apples, asparagus, runner beans, grapes etc. has to be a lot easier than hauling nets.
As far as I know, only apple picking has been mechanised, by gathering them with a combined harvester
shanemax
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No wonder they don't like yachties, one guy wants to report them for every breach in the book, another wants to claim they are running drugs and two comments say they should be cutting vegetables.! "How to win friends and influence people"
johnalison
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A clubmate and friend, now in his 90s, used to run a small fishing fleet and still sells fish under his name in many local outlets. He told me that he viewed fishermen as cowboys, not in the sense of fraudulent artisans but as little advanced from being hunter-gatherers and willing to do whatever necessary. It always amazes me that the local fishermen can make enough even to pay for the diesel, but although the registered ones are clearly just trying to make a living, they will lose my considerable respect if they break the law and endanger others' vessels or worse.
Fr J Hackett
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But abiding by the rules of the road and col regs is not
Bouba
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Let them get their own forum
Fr J Hackett
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Shouldn't you be out looking for a new immersion heater
Juan Twothree
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Very few inshore fishing vessels (at least in my neck of the woods) are over 15m, in fact many are under 10m, for reasons to do with licensing.
Of those smaller vessels who voluntarily carry AIS, most stop transmitting when they're actually fishing, for the reasons you've described above.
I've never heard of any switching off their nav lights though.
Bear in mind too that many now work single-handed, to make it pay, so when hauling/shooting the gear, or sorting the catch between hauls, there won't be anyone on the wheel and maintaining a lookout.
Daydream believer
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Really? In all my years as a single handed leisure sailor, I have never heard of such an irresponsible thing
shanemax
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Have you not heard of a tree shaker. It has two arms that grip the tree and then it shakes the tree. All the big cider companies use them as it does not material the apples are bruised.
shanemax
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Mater............ bloody predictive tex
dansaskip
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Good God whatever next I have even heard that single handed sailors take short naps.Really? In all my years as a single handed leisure sailor, I have never heard of such an irresponsible thing
from time to time.Seriously though, though I may sometimes curse under my breath at the antics of fishermen- oh and other boaters. I make sure that I keep out of the way even at the cost of changing course that I don't want to do. As others have said we are just enjoying our pastime.
johnalison
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Strange. I take it that you have started swearing in Latin.
Bouba
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predictive illud
Daydream believer
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Not me! I spend most of the time being sea sick. My last trip to Ostend - 14 hours - 10 hours slumped over the side puking. Decks awash with itGood God whatever next I have even heard that single handed sailors take short naps.
Biggles Wader
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I tend to think along those lines too however there is no excuse for a fishing vessel going dark and failing to keep a proper lookout especially so if a risk of collision then occurs as in the OP. That's why I suggested reporting the event so that ears can be bent to ensure the practice is stopped.Good God whatever next I have even heard that single handed sailors take short naps.
Seriously though, though I may sometimes curse under my breath at the antics of fishermen- oh and other boaters. I make sure that I keep out of the way even at the cost of changing course that I don't want to do. As others have said we are just enjoying our pastime.
AntarcticPilot
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In a wildly different fishery in the Southern Ocean, a vessel that is not transmitting AIS and which is detected by other means (e.g. satellite SAR) is assumed to be fishing illegally. Given that all the waters mentioned here so far are monitored 24/7/365 by radar, I'd suggest that a fisher who turned their AIS off should be subject to the same suspicion!
justanothersailboat
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Very much agree, Antarctic.... it's decades past time that lot stopped being allowed to be utter cowboys and were required to, at minimum, conspicuously conform to existing law to be allowed to continue in their industry.
shanemax
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No I was not talking about my mother but my phone changed. things when ever it wasnts. It is doing it now
WoodyP
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Or merely wants his mummy.
