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October 13, 2010

Commercial Fishing?

Both of these videos displays insights into fishing with the traditional rod and line. Although commercial fishing generally uses giant nets these days, the rod and line approach still holds a measure of effectiveness.

The first video places emphasis on how effective this ancient technique of fishing is and how fishing overall is impacting the environment. In the second video, it was mentioned that they managed to catch around 20 tons of fish with some fishermen pulling up to 15 fishes per minute.





I always though that the giant net fishing ships were dominant but given these insightful videos, I am not so certain about that anymore. In the first video, it was stated that the type of tuna they were fishing could reproduce fast and bounce back.

I wonder how global fishing with many different types of fish is impacting the marine ecology though.
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14 comments:

  1. DrackarOctober 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM

    A lot of it's this, or long line fishing. Nets...mostly for smaller fish in large schools.

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  2. JRamOctober 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM

    @ Drackar

    I'm not an avid fisher so that was a very informative post. Did not know that nets are not used on large fishes.

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  3. Savage NuggetOctober 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM

    Wow i don't remember really ever seeing that before. Rod and Reel, commercially. :D

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  4. SkimboshOctober 13, 2010 at 7:41 PM

    That's kind of nuts, especially the first video. Up to 15 in one minute?
    I hope those little fishies CAN bounce back!

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  5. Ale-XOctober 13, 2010 at 9:12 PM

    wow look at the size of them

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  6. ArkanynOctober 14, 2010 at 1:57 AM

    so thats where all my delicious tuna comes from

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  7. NajOctober 14, 2010 at 2:49 AM

    there is an even more extreme version of tuna fishing in italy. they caught the tuna in a huge net and the fishermen will jump in and haul the fish by hand!

    with all the tuna these people are getting, you have to wonder if what they are is true. i mean, can tune really reproduce that fast?

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  8. tortacularOctober 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM

    lol i had to read it all the way through. good stuf!

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  9. FrankOctober 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM

    Stuff should be illegal... Don't they know the tuna is an endangered species ?? We don't want them to get extinct, do we ?!

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  10. The Messy ApronOctober 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM

    Holy smokes, they are huge!

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  11. FlippyOctober 14, 2010 at 5:03 PM

    I've never caught a fish. Been fishing a lot in my youth, but never a single catch. I fail?

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  12. SlumphOctober 14, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    they should try it on an aircraft carrier :P

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  13. Telia TuliOctober 15, 2010 at 12:39 AM

    they do tons of illegal fishing
    these people will fuck up the eco-system soon if not already

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  14. Primarch SolyeuseOctober 15, 2010 at 3:26 AM

    That's really weird! How they keep the lines from tangling is beyond me.

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