Can you eat Tope??

Hey why is there not a cooking forum on here?

recipies

list of fish found off the coast of Ireland, what each one tastes like and peoples experiances with cooking the catch....

Good idea seany! I can appreciate that some people are a bit sensitive about taking fish, but your average person buying fish fingers is probably doing more harm than the vast majority of anglers.

No harm taking the odd one for the pan responsibly - with due regard for their age, breeding capacity, and obviously any byelaws.

I hear Mullet are delicious - anyone tried them?

Good idea seany! I can appreciate that some people are a bit sensitive about taking fish, but your average person buying fish fingers is probably doing more harm than the vast majority of anglers.

No harm taking the odd one for the pan responsibly - with due regard for their age, breeding capacity, and obviously any byelaws.

I hear Mullet are delicious - anyone tried them?

ive eat mullet and there lovely...but...only if caught from the coastline, well away from habours,or sewage outflow pipes!! i fish quite a lot and will bring home fish to eat, as we all love fish,..but.. obey the unwritten rules on size,species,and ammount! for example i had a day where i caught 9 flounder,five keepers,took two, as that was enough for our needs,and it gives me an excuse to go out and fish again!

gurnard is REEEEAAALLLYYY tasty!!!

Good idea seany! I can appreciate that some people are a bit sensitive about taking fish, but your average person buying fish fingers is probably doing more harm than the vast majority of anglers.

No harm taking the odd one for the pan responsibly - with due regard for their age, breeding capacity, and obviously any byelaws.

I hear Mullet are delicious - anyone tried them?

Thanks glad you think it would be useful, does anyone else like the sounds of a fish cooking forum? im not sure who you have to tell your ideas to on here?

Good idea seany! I can appreciate that some people are a bit sensitive about taking fish, but your average person buying fish fingers is probably doing more harm than the vast majority of anglers.

No harm taking the odd one for the pan responsibly - with due regard for their age, breeding capacity, and obviously any byelaws.

I hear Mullet are delicious - anyone tried them?

Thanks glad you think it would be useful, does anyone else like the sounds of a fish cooking forum? im not sure who you have to tell your ideas to on here?

good idea seany i think it would be well supported

Another big fan here of the gurnard, took me some time to pluck up the balls to try it but I couldn't believe what I'd been missing! I also think pollock is as good as any other White fish, I cook it the same as cod etc and it makes a fine meal.

Give me sea trout over the lot of them though, devine..

Bass = majorly overrated, but still doesn't put me off wanting to catch one!!

loads of good ideas and opinions expressed over the 3 pages of this post . we take the odd fish for the pan too as battered coalie, pollack and pouting fillets are all lovely . it's also hard to beat freshly grilled mackeral fillets in the summer. but as long as you are being responsible as to where you are sourcing your fish from in relation to the species you are gonna take home for the pan it's ok. just be aware that species such as wrasse are extremely slow growing and live within a set area, so a harbour or rock mark can be annihiilated within a very short space of time if it gets continually targeted . i personally would'nt eat wrasse, but i see nothing wrong with someone taking the odd one for the pot. but sadly that's not how it turns out as i found out last year to my cost . i got talking to a bunch of chinese lads at bangor harbour last year. there was 8 of them fishing off the end of the pier and had a 5 gallon drum with then filled with 100+ wee pollack, pouting, coalies, rockling and 3 different species of wrasse. i think the biggest fish in the bucket would have been 20cm at best . i asked why it was that they were targeting there wee fish with size 8 hooks on float set up's. the simple answer i got was that they were so easy to target, not a wonder seeing as they were fishing for them on the edges of the kelp beds that are effectively a nursery area for the tiddlers to hide in until they get big enough to break cover. i was even more shocked when one of the lads explained to me that they were only targeting them now because all of their favourite eating fish had all gone away . he then went on to proudly explain that they would have normally fished for conger eels. but they must have all moved away elsewhere as they had'nt got one in ages. he then went on to explain that they had lifted over 30 eels outta the harbour within 2 weeks (all for the pot). gone away??,,, i don't think so. they'd eaten them all . like i said before, i see nothing wrong with taking the odd fish home for tea, so long as we're all responsible about how we go about it and don't let greed take over.

he' he' i'm sitting here eatting kippers

Al and Jordan,

Sounds ike we need better education - so that anyone interested in catching to eat, realises that if they do so responsibly there will be more eating fish available for them.

Perhaps a type of voluntary countryyside code' should be put together between angling organisations and the CFB regarding fishing responsibly and taking fish - I presume one doesn't exisit. Then it could be communicated and put on angling singage, etc, just as the countryside code is when you enter forests, etc, alongside the walk maps.

I'm sure most anglers would adhere to it, obviously there would be a minority that don't. But at the moment there is a lot of ignorance out there about what is or isn't responsible in taking fish... so education would seem to be the answer.