just been thinking

[paulthespark]

just been thinking wouldn't it be great if we had the same shore fishing as Norway or Iceland, it used to be ,where did it all go wrong.

 

[Gerry]

just been thinking wouldn't it be great if we had the same shore fishing as Norway or Iceland, it used to be ,where did it all go wrong.

well I can make a start. Used to fish Rhu Narrows, Loch Long and most sea lochs around there during the 1970s. It used to be boring as nearly every chuck produced big cod as I believe it was a spawning ground ??. Then we started seeing Pair Trawling in the Sea Lochs late 70', early 80's this wiped out most of the fish but worse still destroyed the mussel beds and sea bottom. Having dived these Lochs, the bottom is the equivalent of a desert now, something to to with the beam between the nets crushing everything in its path??
I cannot speak for the N.E as I didn't get here until 90's but I bet something similar happened here.
I remember the cod wars with Iceland but they it seems were right and the European Union was wrong

 

[Charlton]

what went wrong, greed.
don't forget the big coalies at the Rhu Gerry, was up Lock Lomond a few years back and popped over to see if anybody was fishing, not a soul, went and had a natter with the local tackle shop owner, said hardly a fish comes out of there now.

 

[Kev1n]

just been thinking wouldn't it be great if we had the same shore fishing as Norway or Iceland, it used to be ,where did it all go wrong.

No not from my POV, you can have too much of a good thing. I’d like the fishing to be better than it is but if you expect to catch big fish every time you’re out it would take away some of the reward and challenge. It would become like fishing some of the tiny stillwaters stuffed with obese fish compared to fishing for wily trout from a small river. Everything is relative.