Orange Roughy Fishing Doc
Submitted by timboon on Sun, 2023-10-22 20:09
Howdy fellas,
Check this out if you have an hour to kill and have any sort of interest in this sort of thing...
Incredible time in the fishing history in Australia...
Few familiar names and boats from the area in SA where I grew up...
Some of the tonnage talked is incredible...
A boat from home used to have 100 T of Roughy Quota over there, they'd catch that in 4 days after steaming from SA to St Helens to fish the famous Hill off St Helens....
Wild times...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs2hF7xOo-I
Enjoy....
mulloway_hunter
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how good is it i watched it
how good is it i watched it couple weeks ago they would have made some serious money eh
timboon
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A twetny year old mate of
A twetny year old mate of mine used to go on a trawler from the SE corner of SA and down there to get the 100 T they were allocated at the time. He made 39k in 4 days on 4% of the catch. Probably spent a fair chunk of it in the few days proceeding but yeah that gives you an indication...
There is another one that goes into more detail about the Tasman Rise where the South African Ships came in and hammered the ground just outside Aus waters, they reckon a Kiwi skipper might have been involved in that as they knew exactly where to go...
rob90
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Watched this the other
Watched this the other night. Great footage.
Hi my name is rob............. and I'm a........... fishaholic
carnarvonite
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Excellent
Excellend doco, watched it a couple of days back. The mind boggles at the size of some of the catches compared to the size of the vessels having to ship them back to home port with not much freeboard to play with
timboon
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Jimmy Collins was one of the
Jimmy Collins was one of the fellas that I knew back in SA, he had 3 trawlers working the shelf off SA before he relocated to Tassie.
I was just reading a convo of one of his workers and sons Nathan talking about some old photos on facebook. They were talking about a 200+ Tonne shot, the net was on the bottom for 5 minutes...
That is a seriously dense cluster of spawning fish, ancient fish!!
They said it took 37 hours to deal with the 200 T including loading up the front deck of the trawler to the handrail.....
Faulkner Family
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Watching this it makes you
Watching this it makes you wonder what our fishery would be like now if it wasn't managed
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Swompa
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Wow! Certainly some
Wow! Certainly some destructive rape and pillage there.
No wonder as to why fishing is so heavily restricted now days
timboon
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This wasn't that long ago
This wasn't that long ago Swompa, the Kiwis discovered the Roghie schools off NZ and it flowed across the ditch.
Management of Australia's commercial fishing industry has been poor right through, too many people with their finger in the pie making decisions for the future. Western Australia's cray industry is a glaring example.
Brock O
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Good Times, they hammered it
Good Times, they hammered it while they could...Fisheries first year of management put the quote at 4,400 ton, the government overruled them allowing 60,000 ton.
Interesting the roughy don't begin to breed until 20 years old, and have been to live to 250 years old.
Last bit stating there's still a roughy fishery operating today..