| Title: | Fishing-V2: All About Angling |
| Notice: | Time to go fishin'! day egins |
| Moderator: | WAHOO::LEVESQUE |
| Created: | Fri Jul 19 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 548 |
| Total number of notes: | 9621 |
Greetings,
Moderators please place in note if this is inappropiate place...
Just got back from trailering the new/old boat to South Nova Scotia.
Biggest surprise is that the Southern part of Novi is considering
shutting down the fishing industry. Evidently there is another pro-
vidence already shutdown and the fisherman put on a subsidised payment
plan ($450.00/week?) Excluded fish will be Red Fish (lobster) and
Herring.
They found out you cant sell your dragged catch to the Russian factory
ships moored outside the Yarmouth Harbor and drag miles of nets before
there ain't nothing left swimming in the ocean. Going to be a painfull
experience for those commercial fisherman. The sport fishing should
improve tremendously!
4 days in the harbor water gave us Mackeralsand snagged
Lobster (put back in-BIG fine if caught out of season)
BBrown
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 320.1 | I'm feeling pessimistic today :*( | GNPIKE::NICOLAZZO | Over 5,000,000,000 served. | Wed Jul 28 1993 11:31 | 8 |
Its good to see that Canadians have a little more sense than New
Englanders. I expect the commercial fishing feeding frenzy to continue
here until the fish stock completely collapse. By the way, rest assured
that when the ground stocks are gone here, the commercial folks will
scream bloody murder until they are allowed to destroy other fisheries
(like striped bass).
Robert.
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| 320.2 | POWDML::MCDONOUGH | Wed Jul 28 1993 13:38 | 27 | ||
I'm not so sure they're much smarter... There was a documentary on
cable a month ago aobut the Newfoundland/Nova Scotia/Labrador fishing
industry and the disastrously low levels of remaining fish. One piece I
recall was a cod boat, who 10 years ago could fish for 4 hours and fill
the hold with 20+ pound cod... He showed an 8-hour catch in the
documentary....a SINGLE 3 pound, skinny specimen!!
When I wa in the USAF during the '60's, I flew out of Otis AFB, MA as
a Radar Technician on EC-121H "Super Constellation" Radar Early Warning
aircraft. Our stations went all the way from Sable Island inthe north
to the Sourh Carolina/Georgia area at the southern end. When we were
flying the northern stations during bad weather or during the winter,
we always took some degree of comfort because of the Soviet fishing
fleet below us...because if we ever had to ditch, we'd be picked up by
one of the boats in a matter of minutes. It was almost as if we were
flying over a city with all the lights at night from the myriad of
fishing boats and factory ships. This was the early '60's!! For 30
years they--along with the U.S. and Canadians, to be sure, but probably
not at the magnitude of the Soviets--have been vacuuming the ocean bare
of life...even a fishery as abundant as that on the eatern seabord will
eventually run out...as it seems it is about to..
Even more distressing is the current mass of ships fishing the
Alaskan coast...seems like the world is incapable of learning from
experience!
JM
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| 320.3 | Trade this Herring Roe for a AK-47 Comrade? | APACHE::BROWN | Thu Jul 29 1993 09:47 | 10 | |
Another twist to this is a trawler can bring its load of Herring or
groundfish direct to the factory ship (2 clicks from Yarmouth) and
get the 'international' price for his load and as an added bonus trade
Canadian dollars for Russian made
goods....Vodka/clothes-sweaters/knives-Russian Caviar ect. ect. And at
discount prices ---sorta like a floating Wal-Mart(ski) - Kept on
wondering if I approached the dealers on the "Black Knight" ship if I would
be able to buy a AK-47 at a reasonable price ;^)
BB
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