CLEARING NET

[Julian de'Courcy]

When nets have too much weed caught up in them they dont work well and lie on the sea bed. So they need to come ashore and the weed shaken out, along with some chit chat.




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[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

They take their time I gather, appreciating the chit chat. Wonder who is performing most on the latter. Always like this kind of documentation, I just wonder why they aren't more colourful. A good one though.

 

[Pete Askew]

The obviously love the job! Another fabulous record of quay-side life.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

They take their time I gather, appreciating the chit chat. Wonder who is performing most on the latter. Always like this kind of documentation, I just wonder why they aren't more colourful. A good one though.

Thank you Ivar. Alas it is rather a dull colourless part of the world down here . but for you, as long as you dont let anyone else in this forum peek

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

The obviously love the job! Another fabulous record of quay-side life.

Thank you Pete.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Is that a dog fish they've caught?

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Excuse my ignorance, what is a dogfish Rob?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Ivar, the dogfish is the smallest member of the shark family. I mentioned it as a joke, as it looks like a dog is caught in the net.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Ivar, the dogfish is the smallest member of the shark family. I mentioned it as a joke, as it looks like a dog is caught in the net.

Never mind the joke Rob, it was genuinely a question about the name dogfish. Now I know, thank you. We call that one "pighå"

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Is that a dog fish they've caught?

Yes . Its the only dogfish species found in our local waters that wags its tail and demands chum twice a day

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excuse my ignorance, what is a dogfish Rob?

Had conversation about dogfish the other night at a gathering. There was red mullet and bass on the table plus a scrumptious home grown blackberry and apple crumble lashed with clotted cream.So I'e no idea why the subject came up, I could put it down to there being a few Londerners there.
Ivar they used to be caught as a catch and sold as Rock Salmon. Then those so called nasty Eurocrats told us we cannot sell cheap produce under misleading labels sounding more expensive conning customers on what they are eating, how dare they So the The rock Salmon ( dogfish) (small shark) got it's reprieve. They are an amazing creature that will last for hours out of the water, return and be ok. I have had them aboard a boat in damp nets for more than forty eight hours and they swim away. Their skin is very rough and you have to take care as they have a habit of rapping their tail around your wrist and as they slip it, the rough sand paper like skin, will clean your wrist of skin. They were often used for this reason by conger eel fishermen. There used to be a few boats who's main fishing was long lining wand the targetted fish would be Conger eels. Not a pricey fish but the quantity made up for that. Baskets of baited line of maybe two hundred or more hooks per basket would be shot with enough baskets to cover several miles of sea bed. Over clean deep ground the conger eels caught are white in colour. If the ground is rough such as rocks and weed the congers skin colour is black as it takes on the colour of their environment. This black colour is a surface slime. White congers always fetched more money on the market than black conger, so the dogfish which are caught as a bi product are thrown into the black congers pound, by the time you get home about two or so days later the dog fish have rapped themselves around the black congers enough to remove the slime and they appear white, ($$$$) Today I dont know of any long liners, The mackerel which are used to bait the lines are now worth far more than the congers that they catch.

 

[Pete Askew]

Interesting history, Julian. The skin of the Dogfish used to be use as an abrasive in woodworking. I understand that it still used by some luthiers and others working in the restoration trades.

 

[Brian Moore]

Fascinating background information!

I'm glad you posted the private color version for Ivar because in it you can see the seaweed so much better than in the B&W version. (Although for me the B&W suits the scene better overall.)

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Fascinating background information!

I'm glad you posted the private color version for Ivar because in it you can see the seaweed so much better than in the B&W version. (Although for me the B&W suits the scene better overall.)

Now how come that does not surprise me Brian

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Had conversation about dogfish the other night at a gathering. There was red mullet and bass on the table plus a scrumptious home grown blackberry and apple crumble lashed with clotted cream.So I'e no idea why the subject came up, I could put it down to there being a few Londerners there.
Ivar they used to be caught as a catch and sold as Rock Salmon. Then those so called nasty Eurocrats told us we cannot sell cheap produce under misleading labels sounding more expensive conning customers on what they are eating, how dare they So the The rock Salmon ( dogfish) (small shark) got it's reprieve. They are an amazing creature that will last for hours out of the water, return and be ok. I have had them aboard a boat in damp nets for more than forty eight hours and they swim away. Their skin is very rough and you have to take care as they have a habit of rapping their tail around your wrist and as they slip it, the rough sand paper like skin, will clean your wrist of skin. They were often used for this reason by conger eel fishermen. There used to be a few boats who's main fishing was long lining wand the targetted fish would be Conger eels. Not a pricey fish but the quantity made up for that. Baskets of baited line of maybe two hundred or more hooks per basket would be shot with enough baskets to cover several miles of sea bed. Over clean deep ground the conger eels caught are white in colour. If the ground is rough such as rocks and weed the congers skin colour is black as it takes on the colour of their environment. This black colour is a surface slime. White congers always fetched more money on the market than black conger, so the dogfish which are caught as a bi product are thrown into the black congers pound, by the time you get home about two or so days later the dog fish have rapped themselves around the black congers enough to remove the slime and they appear white, ($$$$) Today I dont know of any long liners, The mackerel which are used to bait the lines are now worth far more than the congers that they catch.

Thank you Julian for the enlightening information and the story of how it was in those days. I do appreciate that very much and there are times when words are needed than just an image. So thank you. It seems to me as if they (dogfish) are the same as we get cheap here. Small shark which we make a dish as in Trinidad which is called, bake and shark. Like a huge baked bun and inside it this shark meat with vegetables as salad etc including a lot of spice. Delicious really.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thank you Julian for the enlightening information and the story of how it was in those days. I do appreciate that very much and there are times when words are needed than just an image. So thank you. It seems to me as if they (dogfish) are the same as we get cheap here. Small shark which we make a dish as in Trinidad which is called, bake and shark. Like a huge baked bun and inside it this shark meat with vegetables as salad etc including a lot of spice. Delicious really.

Maybe Ivar, the taste is superb. What is not easy is they need to be skinned. This is tedious and done by hand, otherwise I am sure they would be fished commercially. But are we not greedy and seem to want more than we need, so I am glad they can go by and hopefully not bothered.
I remember one time when we had to stay a few weeks in the Seychelles working, there were several boats at anchor off shore that had lines of sharks fins drying in the sun. I have not tried shark fin soup but some say it is delicious as I am sure your shark is. I find that fish tend to taste of what they consume. Those fish like skate have a crab like taste as they feed a lot on crab, were as mullet tend to hang off our outlet pipes and taste of

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Fascinating background information!

I'm glad you posted the private color version for Ivar because in it you can see the seaweed so much better than in the B&W version. (Although for me the B&W suits the scene better overall.)

Thank you Brian, someone with good taste