MACKEREL HAMMERED BY OVERFISHING

[big_cod]

A little bird told me yesterday that the big industrial boats that fish for mackerel are having a hard time locating mackerel ,i wonder why that is only 6 months ago it was dip and fill thousands of tons of mackerel for the taking now it up **** creek.

Those bloody seals.

Edited April 29, 2006 by big_cod

[maidstonemike]

Possibly because the greedy b@@@@@@s scooped all the Mackerel up last year?

[wurzel]

A little bird told me yesterday that the big industrial boats that fish for mackerel are having a hard time locating mackerel ,i wonder why that is only 6 months ago it was dip and fill thousands of tons of mackerel for the taking now it up **** creek.

Those bloody seals.

 

 

Ever thought it might be something to do with the late spring, every thing else is a month late why should mackerel be any different.

[Snatcher]

Ever thought it might be something to do with the late spring, every thing else is a month late why should mackerel be any different.

 

As long as a few turn up in Luce Bay for me No sorry quite a few please GOD because Ian Burrett and myself have a cunning plan.

 

It is called catch and release

 

Bring on the tope!

[big_cod]

Ever thought it might be something to do with the late spring, every thing else is a month late why should mackerel be any different.

 

Peter these guys are pros at catching mackerel they even say themselves they have been very heavily fished so lets just hope they turn up.

Edited May 1, 2006 by big_cod

[big_cod]

Caught our first mackerel of the summer yesterday, the 2 we caught must have been a couple of lucky ones but i must say i have never had mackerel in april before this is a first also another boat fishing not far from me also had mackerel.

[glennk]

Another first last year as they were caught from the Whitby pier in May which for as long as I remember has not happened before.

[Guest binatone]

Glenk. big cod. The mackerel that you catch (when you catch them along the Yorkshire coast) do you know where they come from? At what time of year do you think they become pelagic and enter the North Sea?

When are mackerel at there densest do you think? And when they are concentrated in there biggest mass are they pelagic or are they feeding on the bottom?

When mackerel enter the North Sea, are the shoals dispersing or are they congregating?

[big_cod]

Glenk. big cod. The mackerel that you catch (when you catch them along the Yorkshire coast) do you know where they come from? At what time of year do you think they become pelagic and enter the North Sea?

When are mackerel at there densest do you think? And when they are concentrated in there biggest mass are they pelagic or are they feeding on the bottom?

When mackerel enter the North Sea, are the shoals dispersing or are they congregating?

 

You/ve got me with that one ,i think i better contact cefarce .

If i am not correct mackerel spawn down this part of the coast ,the mackerel we catch in july ,august are always full of spawn, but the biggest shoal of mackerel i ever saw was down on the west sole off humberside, i was called down from the forties field to do a job on the west sole in 85.

The sight i saw was quite amaizing as far as the eye could see it was just one massive shoal of mackerel probably many thousands of tons of fish the sea was just black the shoal was so dense but the amaizing thing these fish were not swimming anywhere when you looked down at them from the rig they were just swimming in the tide,i has always thought mackerel were always on the move feeding at every opportunity but thses fish were literally dormant now whether they were spawning i not sure but i had a feeling they were.

Mackerel swim at all depths depending where the food is sprats etc, so the next time when we are catching mackerel just under the boat i will tell the lads we are catching palegic mackerel.

[Leon Roskilly]

You can use this to map where fish of different species spawn and feed etc

 

http://map2.cefasdirect.co.uk/iseaii/iSeaII.htm