Thread: Daily Fish

Originally Posted by Mendip

And another monkfish.

Originally Posted by Shutree

Not trash in my book. I have eaten monkfish a couple of times, both in France, and I'd eat it again given a chance. Quite a different texture from standard white fish.

Not trash at all, it is a bycatch fish here in Washington and Alaska. We consider it the poor man's lobster, and for good reason, I was raised eating it when the season was right. It is a desired catch amongst fisherman to take home to eat...

I tried it for the first time after watching a youtubby claiming it to be poor man's lobster. Just tasted like fish to me. I was sure hoping for it to taste like lobster. I might of fucked up the cooking method though. Probably something best left to chitty ?

Originally Posted by Mendip

And another monkfish.

angler fish

Originally Posted by bsnub

Not trash at all, it is a bycatch fish here in Washington and Alaska. We consider it the poor man's lobster, and for good reason, I was raised eating it when the season was right. It is a desired catch amongst fisherman to take home to eat...

Nice dish for fryer tucker , were you ever Friar Tuck in your monkish youth?

Originally Posted by david44

were you ever Friar Tuck in your monkish youth?

I wish, but I used to get pissed up at a pub called the Stumbling Monk.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

angler fish

You're not wrong.

My understanding is that the monkfish (lophius piscatorius) is a type of angler fish, which is a more general term and includes several species.


More mackerel... and all very depressing.

We constantly hear about saving the planet. What this means of course is 'saving humankind', the planet has done very well without our influence for millions of years and the sooner we are gone the better. It would soon recover.

If it's not dugongs killed to have their teeth hacked out, it's shoals of mackerel dumped for greed... do we really deserve this planet?

Why are they dumped Mendy is it ove rquotas , or of no commercial value, I enjoy fresh mackerel, they use dto be free at Newlyn fish market in Cornwall Uk as a by product for which there were no buyers.I ask you as you in plaice to be a dab hand in fishnets!

Shoals of mackerel tend to comprise fish of similar size and a big mackerel is worth more than a small mackerel. If a trawler catches a shoal of 10in mackerel they will be dumped in the hopes of catching a shoal of 14in mackerel, simple as that.

Once netted, the fish die due to shock.

We see this every Autumn, and often a lot more fish than in the pictures above. When you consider the size of the North Sea and the chances of a lone vessel inspecting pipelines coming across dumped mackerel, it makes you realise how widespread this practice is.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Shoals of mackerel tend to comprise fish of similar size and a big mackerel is worth more than a small mackerel. If a trawler catches a shoal of 10in mackerel they will be dumped in the hopes of catching a shoal of 14in mackerel, simple as that.

They will be dumped because the minimum landing size for mackerel in the North Sea is 30 centimeters, (which is 12inch for you sassenachs)

Originally Posted by Mendip

seem a lot more practical in these things than the EU bureaurocrats

They've had their chips......sorry I know my plaice!

PS does anyone remember UK chain MacFisheries that seemd common when I was a lad , fresh fish daily, I suppose they couldn't compete with the giant supemarket Malls and car fuelled out of town shopping Malls. A walk along the main street of mayt UK towns shows the price of the sheds on the ring roads. There are betting shops , odd Greggs pie shop , cafe, charity, shop, betting shop, charity shop possibly a hair salon or nail bar, instead of a dozen locally owned family pubs a gian Wetherspoons franchise with cheap grog then anothe rcharity shop or Pound hsop for cheap chinese crap and remaindered stock.The anchor shops like M and S , Debenhams folded long ago or moved out of town. Such places are left to youths vaping on the war memorial in the day and drunks by night so different to other places I know France Czechia here or Spain , the failure of urban planning.

Originally Posted by Mendip

do we really deserve this planet?

This guy...wants to know if "we" deserve this planet

The guy who commutes to the arse end of Nakhon Nowhere 15 -25 times a year via jet planes and poorly maintained local buses to sit on a boat looking at Essos pipes and fish has a bigger carbon footprint than fucking P Diddy and Taylor Swift

Lives on a property where the emissions of his chickens, green pond, dogshit, gravy slurping and pea farts must give out more methane than a couple of American ranches, spends most of his spare time on passport runs and sending out his address to internet strangers encouraging more unneccessary air travel.of airline cutlery.

When Mendy says "we" I think hes talking about himself and these kuntos...

Ten stars who'''ve got colossal carbon footprints - NZ Herald.

^ That may be so, but I've never dumped any fish in my pond. I eat them all!

So, do you have a spoon for me or not?

And... 'jet planes'

Not sure it is the fault of urban planners. The shop spaces were planned, now no one wants them. Not helped by local councils having all kinds of twisted logic about 'use'. Years ago a mate of mine set himself up as an independent real estate agent. He found high street premises that had recently been a florists and then had all kinds of problems with the council because he was a B and it had use only as a C, or some such nonsense. When that is overcome you have to pay punitive business rates to the same helpful council. Then of course there is the parking issue. My last local council pedestrianised the high street and upped the parking charges nearby. Nearby is not 'outside', the people who drive, who have money, prefer to park for free in the out-of-town retail parks. Now the high street is at least half a dozen charity shops, a coffee shop, two or three mobile phone shops and a couple of closed banks. You never see a police person on foot patrol. The people who enjoy the pedestrianised areas are mainly feral youths, elderly and disabled lunatics on mobility scooters and finally the town's few who choose to travel in and out on the bus. None of whom spend much money. It's a big town, plenty of pricey homes and shiny cars, no one wants to visit the high street any more. Wetherspoons is off the high street and Greggs is at the bus station. There hasn't been an independent butcher or fishmonger (back on topic!) for about 20 years.

Originally Posted by Mendip

So, do you have a spoon for me or not?

Unfortunately I forgot to pack my purged airline cutlery collection of a fork, so I'd have to have a look online.

What about a nice display case?



I look forward to the PM

^ Strangely enough I used that very same vegetable straining spoon tonight to strain my peas and sprouts. It's working really well.

I don't often get the opportunity to wear that T-shirt though, sadly.


Anyway, back on topic... (and it didn't take a novel to get there, Shutree!)

A deep water ling. That's a 21in OD pipeline, so quite a big fish.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

When Mendy says "we" I think hes talking about himself and these kuntos

I think if you did not drive you may have a point.

Originally Posted by Shutree

There hasn't been an independent butcher or fishmonger (back on topic!) for about 20 years

Indeed FINS ain't what they used to be

Pollocks to this...

Although it's nice to see so many fish, I guess.



I learnt something today. I always thought that pollock and coalfish (coleys) were the same, but it seems not.



I reckon these are coalfish, look at that pale lateral line.

Also known as seithe in Norway. These will probably become increasingly common in UK chippies as cod and haddock stocks dwindle.

Bottom feeder, not you of course, the coley?

^ The coley's main food is small fish and I think hey feed anywhere in the water column, although are not adverse for scavenging for crustaceans on the seabed. We only see them on the seabed because that's where all our work is, and where all the sensors are focused on, so the impression from my work is skewed. There could be a huge shoal of coley's 20m above the ROV and we'd be none the wiser.

Here's a definite bottom feeder.

What's better than a yellow starfish?



Two yellow starfish!



Available in other colours too, of course...



And an entire starfish family.



Why do starfish need to be bright colours, 300m down and well below the photic zone?

What can I say Stellar!

Mendip, do you ever see any of those giant crabs that the press reported as migrating steadily southwards from the Arctic and apparently going to eliminate everything in their wake?

^ Yes, king crabs were released by the Soviets into Arctic waters and have ever since been marching westwards, and southwards down the Norwegian coast.

We saw several when working in the Barents Sea a couple of years ago. They are invasive, originally from the North Pacific (I think) and eat everything in their path, but also a whole new industry has sprung up around them. I think they're in Norway to stay.

Anyway, here's an elderly looking ling...



And a couple of pics of deep water sponges.

Originally Posted by Mendip

sponges

ideal after a soapy , bet you're a dab hand.
Thank you very much for a unique piping.