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Hugh's Fish Fight - Channel4 - 4Food



Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall embarks on a new campaign to save our fishies in this three-part special for Channel 4's Fish Season.

Hoping to raise awareness of diminishing fish stocks, Hugh works to find a solution to this global problem.

Scientists believe that if action isn't taken soon, certain sea favourites may be non-existent for future generations.

Focusing on the three species most widely consumed in the UK – cod, salmon and tuna – Hugh leaves no stone unturned in his mission to understand what is happening to the British fishing industry.

In the process he is horrified to learn that up to half of all fish caught in the North Sea are thrown back dead.

Hugh also investigates the supermarkets' claims - what exactly does 'protecting the marine environment' mean?

Determined to help conserve fish stocks, Hugh launches an online campaign which you can all sign up to, and takes on the supermarkets, the politicians, and the public in one almighty Fish Fight.


Go to fishfight.net to get involved!


Watch Hugh's Fish Fight at 9pm on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 January
 
Be interesting to see how much research he's done for this programme!

Shame it's only on for a couple of days instead of being spread out over a few weeks with contributions from other interested parties.
 
Just to remind you guys that this little gem is on tonight.

Dispatches on Saturday should also be good as it highlights where the fish we buy on our high street comes from (maybe how you pay for it twice or how it may be black market)

Sunday nights Fish Fight sees Gordon Ramsay highlight the issue of shark finning and how 100 million sharks dies at the hands of commercial fishermen and how they are being pushed to the brink of extinction
 
Cheers Lads, think ill phone home and get the folkes to record it on skyplus for my next return! I think Hugh is a legend, ill love his book 'Meat'!!!!!
 
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Cheers Lads, think ill phone home and get the folkes to record it on skyplus for my next return! I think Hugh is a legend, ill love his book 'Meat'!!!!!
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HFW is the epitome of how I'd like to live my life...however unless the upstairs neighbour lets me dig up the yard in a "Good Life" stylee I feel it is just a pipe dream :D
 
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HFW is the epitome of how I'd like to live my life...however unless the upstairs neighbour lets me dig up the yard in a "Good Life" stylee I feel it is just a pipe dream :D
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Definitely Wallsendo! Although I do think once he did dye his clothes with urine or something along those lines, the rest is great though!!
 
I don't know if this is the right place to post this so if any admins or mods want to move it I'm fine with that; I just want to put my two-penn'orth in on the fish stocks debate/problem.

We have bureaucrats in highly paid positions sitting in offices without a clue what they are doing trying to save our fish stocks by implementing stupid new rules like increasing minimum size limits for fish species; we all know that only results in more and bigger fish being thrown back into the sea dead and unused. Increasing mesh sizes on nets has little or no effect because once the net is choked with fish it doesn't matter what size the mesh is, everything gets stuck in there.
Now; I don't know exactly how the quotas work or what the quotas are, but I'll make up some numbers just to make my point and it is a VALID point.

Let's say that fisherman Smith has an annual quota of 1000 tons of saleable fish; and his boat can carry 10 tons at a time. He goes to sea and throws his nets; hauls them back several times until his 10 ton hold is full. He heads home, on the way sorting through the fish and throwing overboard anything undersized, out of season, or anything he's not licensed for. By the time he's weighed in his catch he only has 5 tons of saleable fish. He needs to do this 200 times to get his annual quota of 1000 tons; BUT he has also thrown back into the sea another 1000 tons of dead fish.

Would it not be better to tell fisherman Smith that whatever comes up in his nets; whatever the size, whatever the species or whatever the season, he has to keep it all towards his quota; throwing nothing back. Now the 10 tons in his hold all counts, and he only has to make 100 trips to sea. There are no dead fish being thrown back into the sea; wasted. Less disturbance to the sea bed, less fuel being used.
Penalties would have to be introduced for any skipper caught throwing anything back.
I know that small fish aren't always what they want for human consumption, but the smaller stuff could be used in animal feed.

This surely is the only real solution to improving fish stocks.

If anyone wants to tell me that I've got it all totally wrong; I'm willing to listen to a better solution; because by throwing back all these dead fish, all we are doing is increasing the seagull stocks!!!
 
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Jeeze i did not realise how fu--ed up is our fishing system.
Good on Hugh for exposing the discard system-its criminal.

Mick.
 
its shocking mick.

the government set a quota what they simply do not understand.

and the system is that slow, it will take an age to sort out.

why not just limit there total catch of all species in a year rather than picking out individual species.
- or just limit each fishermans time at sea
- or have more exclusion zones

am not sure

I mean the fisherman cannot put a sign on ther nets saying NO COD TODAY.
or COALIES ONLY.

quotas are inevitable, i mean they cannot keep sweeping everything off the seabed however there has to be a better way to preserve the stocks.

it an absolute discrace

I hope that bloke on the programme does well and the media get more involved.
 
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needs the whole country behind him to make a difference, its about time we as the uk told the eu to go f*** themselves regarding what is a total waste of a precious commodity, trouble is our wonderful ministers are frightened of thier own shadows were other countries are involved and would rather feed us the uk the crap they do, we are just as much to blame, its about time we took a leaf from the frogs and brought the country to a standstill a few times untill the government started to take the people seriously rather than the bottomless pit of money via tax that they seem to think we are
 
well i think we should all get behind Hugh, but also or commercial fishermen, they should all say bollocks to the CFS and land what they catch, but as many said on the programme and i know has been said elsewhere restrict themselves to time at sea. If they didn't they would land that much fish the price would drop and wouldn't be worth landing anyway.
 
If anyone wants to tell me that I've got it all totally wrong; I'm willing to listen to a better solution; because by throwing back all these dead fish, all we are doing is increasing the seagull stocks!!![/QUOTE]

sorry Chris you have got it spot on, talked with someone in what was then MAFF with someone at their HQ in London about the same thing, a total tonnage, they thought it was a good idea, even did an article or two about the quota system many moons ago in the Sunday Sun. But it is the European Beaurocrats who have the last say, lets tell them all to go and get discarded.
 
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i have worked on trawlers but a long time ago,this programme was spot on.
the amount of fish thats goes back dead is unbelievable.
 
I’ve just watched Hugh’s programme on fish discards. “Fish Disgrace” should be the words. How can throwing tonnes of fish overboard be allowed because some pen pushing politician in Europe says it has to be thrown over because of quotas. Cut the days fishermen can go out but allow them to land the whole catch. Let’s be sensible about it for once. Go HUGH, you’ve got my vote. :mad:
 

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