Japan: Climate change puts fish stocks in steep decline

[Mr Gus]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/o ... al-heating

A good read.

[Oliver90owner]

Add over-fishing to that, as well?

[Mr Gus]

Add over-fishing to that, as well?

Where isn't it these days?

factory ship fleets need ramming up beaches & dismantling.

[Oldgreybeard]

Add over-fishing to that, as well?

Where isn't it these days?

factory ship fleets need ramming up beaches & dismantling.

Factory ship fishing should have been banned decades ago. My brother used to work in the fishing industry (on the engineering side - maintaining and repairing gear and boats) and I was staggered at the appalling waste in the industry. This was in the late 1970s/early 1980s and there were large factory ships sat just outside the 3 mile limit off Falmouth Bay (mostly Warsaw Pact owned and operated) that he was looking after. The purse seine boats would catch entire shoals of fish, offload their quota limit to the factory ships and then dump many tonnes of dead fish into the sea because they weren't allowed to sell them. Complete and utter madness.

In the space of a year or two these big (mostly Scandinavian and French) purse seine ships wiped out the Cornish mackerel fishery, because of the indiscriminate way they fished. The size of the nets these ships used was staggering, often it would take them the best part of half a day to shoot maybe 2km to 3km of net, capturing every type and size of fish in the encircled area of ocean. I've watched these big seine ships hauling their net aboard and the fish are all dead or dying by the time they get hauled aboard, just from having been crushed together. One of those sights you never forget.

[Mr Gus]

Witnessing factory ships in the late 70's & 80's in Scotland woke me up to a lot of things, I 'kin hate them.