Fish Driven from North Sea

[Leon Roskilly]

See: http://www.anglers-net.co.uk/sacn/latest/i...ex.php?view=307

 

Tight Lines - leon

[big_cod]

Leon keep hearing this mate but i am not tottally convinced, i know if there had not been any trawling from whitby in the last 20years the sea would still be full,it would not supprize me if this study was not sponsored by the commercial sector music to there ears.

[Leon Roskilly]

One of the quotes reads:

 

"The scientists say further research is needed, but as a precaution, greater protection should be put in place for stocks already threatened by over fishing."

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Tony U]

Also a good report in today's Guardian look at:

www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1483209,00.html

[Tom Pinborough]

Hi all

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20...1602579,00.html

 

this was in the sunday times , which suggests that because of global warming , we are in for a big freeze.

Roll on the cod

 

cheers

Tom

[wurzel]

I rest my case.

 

Big Cod, what a load of Bol##*ks.

 

Leon, It won't make much difference,

 

Tom, Then we,ll get the blame when the bass bugger off I suppose.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Hi All,

 

What I don't understand is the cod on the southern wreck marks all year round.

 

Now to the best of my knowledge with the influence of the Gulf Stream south coast waters were always warmer that the North Sea.

 

If there has been a rise in temperature surely the first place the cod would desert is the south coast areas.

 

How is this justfied in the report just issued?

[Davy Holt]

You got it in one there Ken.. the best place for Cod fishing in the UK is the one place that they aint supposed to be due to Global warming, yet in the cooler areas there are none... tis strange indeed.

[peterthefisherman]

My twopenceworth;

Cod are thinner on the ground than ever here,

bass seem to be getting caught more and more,

Mackerel seem to be arriving earlier ,staying longer,

Ken some of the catch reports for cod in the channel are misleading they may be big but sometimes only a handful are caught, I was absolutely amazed to read the results of a cod festival I am sure the best boat averaged about a cod per man.

Just some impressions but I would seriously consider climate change a reason for the patterns. It certainly did in the dinosaurs ,(or was that a meteor)

[stavey]

there is certainly still some cod on the wrecks in my part of the english channel, but no where near the amount there was in the 70's thats for sure. these fish use to come inshore off these wrecks to breed in the winter, and you could catch many of these close and off the beaches then,not anymore, i know of one and only one of ten pounds caught over the whole of the winter just past, this gives some idea of how bad it is now for this stock, this is i feel down to both commercial pressure and the rise in temperature of the sea here, this has risen by a degree and half in the last ten years, also the increase from species like red mullet/bream/trigger fish/ and baby bass to plague proportions,must mean something is going on.....