HFW Fish Fight

[Poddington Pea]

A bit like this I would imagine...MING...ING!

Don’t Eat this fish: Pangas (Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, White Catfish, Gray Sole) | Diet Mind Spirit

I once bought some Riiver Cobbler from Tescrats........never again!

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I JUST ATE 'VIETNAMESE RIVER COBBLER' ALONG WITH SOME HADDOCK FOR MY SUPPER, AND FED IT TO MY ONE YEAR OLD SON! EURGH!!!
I only got it as something extra to go with my (line caught, sustainable British) Haddock in a pie. I was going for cod, but was lured by the cheap price and the fishmonger suggesting it as an alternative.
That will teach me once and for all. I feel sick

[Poddington Pea]

Just googled it. That website appears to be a load of old tosh. Few! Although I probably won't get it again because of the distance it's travelled, was truely a one off!

[northepaul]

I never thought I would say this but:
well done to sainsburys for buying sustainable tuna!! (And I feel ok again about buying it)
I use loads of tinned tuna, its one of our favourite fish and I buy it from Sainsburys

[di]

Hubbie conviniently forgot to record....bit of a jealousy thing me thinks...will have to search for a repeat.

[womble]

Last night made me realise that "Dolphin friendly" on a can of tuna means less than nothing.
We will definitely be buying only line caught tuna from now on. Although that isn't the answer to the problem. Tuna looks like being off the menu in a few years and desperately in trouble.

[northepaul]

My daughter, whose 8, loves fish and tuna is her favourite one, she has it for dinner and in sandwiches(Not all at once). So it would be difficult for me not to buy it.

[Bren In Pots]

Hubbie conviniently forgot to record....bit of a jealousy thing me thinks...will have to search for a repeat.

You can watch it here on 4OD :-


Hugh's Fish Fight - 4oD - Channel 4

[Aberdeenplotter]

Surely the reason the UK fishing industry is gone, is because of the blimmin quotas!

It's because there are no fish surely which is why quotas were introduced.

[dave_norm_smith]

Wow. I knew it was bad but the stupidity of this situation sickens me. I hope everyone who has been equally upset by this does take the time to sign the petition.

Dave

[Hilary B]

Quotas DON'T WORK for any conservation purpose, the program demonstrated exactly why, therefor the system needs changed.

'Line-caught' fish (I think including tuna) can be long-lined, using miles of line, paid out from the back of a fast-moving ship, with baited hooks at predetermined intervals. It is better than the purse-seine netting, but there is still a significan risk of other species taking the bait, in some cases near the surface before they sink to the proper depth for the target fish, and some of those that may take the bait are not actually fish, and will drown (albatrosses as an example, species killed this way depend on the bait used, albatrosses like squid).

[Snadger]

Good on Hugh for highlighting it but all I saw were loads of questions but no real definitive answers?
Maybe that will come in the next installment.........I hope so.

Wasn't impressed that the MAFF top man didn't know one fish from another though! You would have thought that in his position he would have known his fish, the latin names of each and whether they were demersal or pelagic at least, in fact the ins and out of every species he's involved in legislating for/against.

[Bren In Pots]

Good on Hugh for highlighting it but all I saw were loads of questions but no real definitive answers?
Maybe that will come in the next installment.........I hope so.

I've been looking around Google for tuna fishing info and found out that by the end of 2012 Tesco's own brand of Tuna will be 100% pole/ line caught, and its down to Greenpeace and Hugh campaigns.

Greenpeace UK

[binley100]

Good ........until it is I'm not buying it .........

[Nicos]

Right...I've signed.

[binley100]

I've signed and shared the FB link to try and get more people to sign......