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 Are you in the commercial fishing business? We'd love to hear
from you!
On a stopover in the Canary islands, a couple of years ago,
your editors met a Spanish long-lining crew, in port to get a
refrigeration problem fixed and waiting for parts to arrive. They gave
us a fascinating account of how they work and a tour of the boat. It's a
gruelling job but they are amongst the highest earners in their village,
near Almeria on the southern coast of the Spanish mainland. They were charming
people, helping us to move Leopard Normand III across the bay to another
quay when we were obliged to give up the quay used by the fuel ship at
short notice and in rough weather.
They sent us on our way towards the
Cape Verde islands with gifts of tinned food and fresh fish and a small,
but handsome, shark's jaw with terrifying fangs, for decoration.
We picked up a Californian in the Cape Verde islands who had worked in
Alaska on the salmon fishing boats. Now that really doesn't sound like a
job for the faint-hearted!
In the photo above is a stack of nets used by the local fishermen in Grande
Anse d'Arlets, on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean.
We'd love
to see any pictures you care to send.. in fact, with or without pictures
we'd love to hear from you, especially if you've any good tales to
tell but also if you'd like to describe a particular kind of fishing
operation...sometimes, of course, people get into fishing quite without meaning to...
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| On our Fishing For Sport page, in Sporting Types, we ask what our readers think may be the cause of the huge decreases in fish populations of the world. In the Azores, the Department of Fisheries in Faial is considering sponsoring a fish-farming project to re-stock the area. A viability study is underway. In the meantime, local car-stickers announce "Refuse To Eat Tuna Until The Whale Problem Has Been Solved". Whales, amongst other things, are being blamed for the decrease in local Tuna populations. We'd be interested to know what you think about it.
We look forward to hearing your story and seeing your pictures...
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