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sailnfish wrote:Cheers for posting this. Some serious ships operating there! any one know what kind off tonnage they are landing? Is it definitely blue writing?
Caz-Galway wrote:Almost certainly blue whiting. Most of these boats are Dutch and they have the biggest quota for this species even though they are to be found off our coast. Ireland only has a very small percentage of this quota for this species.
Hugo wrote:Wow. Wonder whats out there in big numbers enough to draw a heavyweight fleet like that - mebbe the Iceland mackeral shoals on their way south again?
Hugo wrote:Amazing. They're not scraping the bottom of the barrel any more - they've gone right through it into the mud underneath.....
agardiner22 wrote:just prowling the rising fish at the continental shelf. No wonder fook all mack was caught shore angling this year
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