Thursday, February 4, 2010



PHUKET FISH LANDING QUAY








My next door neighbour, Khun Joel, is a fish buyer and exporter. Today he took me to Phuket Port and to the fish landing quay. This is his wife, Khun Ben, who also works for the family business.








I watched the fish being unloaded. As it's just coming off full moon, the landing were down but Khun Joel assures me that the fishing this year has been very poor and thinks this will be a bad year.





Where have we all heard that before??





Fish stocks have been hammered everywhere and Thailand is
certainly no different.




I saw man baskets of tiny fish bein glanded which were to be bought for 14 pence per kilo and then sent off to be made into animal feed and fertiliser. It's a great waste but that's what's been happening in Europe for years.

If you think UK is any better then take a look at the Deepsea Forum and look up the topic sent in by Scotland's Angling Team Captain and follow his link. It makes very sad reading as he explains that Scotland is finished as an angling destination and that there is no way any more International competitions will be held there again....as there are simply no fish for the anglers to catch.


However, there were some very good fish landed....take a look at the photos of the baskets of Trevelly...that's what we've been after on our angling trips and there are a lot of them about....so we can approach our angling here with renewed enthusiasm especially after our success last week!!




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