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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 05 10:01 am Post subject: Killing squid etc

We watched a bit of the River Cottage Christmas special last night and I was surprised to see the people on the boat trip holding the squid they had caught and admiring the different colours it turned

- I gather that when you catch a large fish you bop it on the head with a bit of wood to kill it quickly, but can't you do the same for squid etc? I'm sure they said it was more intelligent than people tend to think so does it not need the same treatment or something similar as fish? If anyone catches them (the programme said it was the season for them?) what do you do?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 05 11:28 am Post subject:
Dunno, I watched it when it was on earlier in the week and just ended up shouting at the TV anyway. "Why don't you mention your full-time gardener?", stuff like that.

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
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Location: Berkshire

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 05 12:08 pm Post subject:
Dont think they dispatch any sea fish ? Just made a "priest" for a friend at work.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 06 4:03 pm Post subject:
a deep bite between the eyes will kill .

spanky

Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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Location: near lowestoft suffolk

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 9:40 pm Post subject:
Large ilex squid can be killed by just running a knife between its eyes to the crown of its head .but usually it is just thrown in a box same as all seafish , very rarely do sea anglers kill the fish on boats

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 9:53 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

a deep bite between the eyes will kill .

Don't think I fancy biting a squid

(Well unless it's lightly sauteed with a bit of garlci or summat)

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 06 7:30 am Post subject:

spanky wrote:

very rarely do sea anglers kill the fish on boats

What is the logic or reasoning behind that? Surely it can't be kind.

spanky

Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 121
Location: near lowestoft suffolk

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 06 11:38 am Post subject:

Sorry bernie kindness doesnt come into it ,would you have the trawlers which lift tonnes daily ( if they are lucky ) kill every fish humanly unfortunatly this govt orders them to dump hundreds of tonnes of dead usable fish overboard as it is , so im sorry to say that same attitude pervades on angling boats they pay to fish and they do not waste time knocking a fish on the noggin myself included having my own boat shooting a few lines for home consumption i dont waste time doing it iether, now if i shoot a rabbit or a pheasant ( not that i am a crap shot ) then i will dispatch it maybe thats because it may escape as a fish in a box has no place to go . regs spanky

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 06 12:17 pm Post subject:
i dispatch fish with a few kind words and extreme swiftness regardless of any ethical issues they taste better with a kind death .

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 06 11:01 pm Post subject:

spanky wrote:

usually it is just thrown in a box same as all seafish , very rarely do sea anglers kill the fish on boats

Don`t generalise my friend,on the last boat I was on(yesterday)there were 2 cutting boards 1 fillet knife(I had my own and so did my m

2 sheeling knives and 2 chappers(priests).
There were 4 fishing.

StuP

Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 123
Location: Aberdeenshire

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 06 11:24 am Post subject:
Every sea-angling boat I've been on has the fish killed immediately and gutted before reaching the harbour.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 06 8:08 pm Post subject:

StuP wrote:

Every sea-angling boat I've been on has the fish killed immediately and gutted before reaching the harbour.

Angling maybe but fishing not a chance.

Justme

spanky

Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 121
Location: near lowestoft suffolk

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 06 8:11 pm Post subject:

well thein i guess the education of sea anglers has got through after all. last time i went sea angling on a boat ( aberdeen 2002 �50 each the day )other than mine every fish caught hit the box and was gutted on the way back to shore .. and the skipper tried to take the fish as well as he only charged for folks to catch them ( this he told us when we had upped anchor and was coming back ) not keep what they caught ,,,,37 stone approx which would have made him another �70 a box , soon changed his mind .6 marines have a persuasive look about them....

robbing barsteward

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