Catch of the day
This excerpt below comes from Seafood New Zealand, a monthly trade magazine for commercial fishers that mostly focuses on whining about government imposed set net bans. This month however, it had bigger fish to fry:
“Still in the Manukau, amateur fishers are reporting catches of good sized snapper in the very shallow water, and plenty of stingrays and killer whales as well.”
I’m not sure if that’s what it meant to say…either that or something much worse.
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am
probably sightings…
July 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I’d like to see how these amateur fishers are bagging Orcas… the mental image of one of those on the end of a fishing line is just hilarious.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Ever seen a stingray take off when frightened? They can flap away over the surface at great speed, and would tow most fishermen (or at least their gear) away with them.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
My god!
What the hell is a “fisher”?..are we that PC now that we dare not say fisherman?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Well it’d (fishermen) be a pretty stupid label if woman fished too now wouldn’t it.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Whats wrong with fisher woman or fisher shelia?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
*snort* lol nothing when you know you’re talking about women, but when frog used ‘fishers’ it was in the general sense, which is all-encompassing and thus more accurate.
I don’t think i’d want to be seen as separate and distinct from fisher-men if i was a fisher(woman), but that’s another story for a very, very rainy day.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
shouldn’t it be fisher-person
July 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
i find ‘fisher’ less cumbersome myself.
AaronC would love this thread.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
and it wasn’t frog who said fisher…it was the old sea-dogs at Seafood Magazine. Sea-dogs is also a gender neutral term.
Fish wifes isn’t. Which is ironic because isn’t that exactly what big bro sounds like?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I like to think of Big Bro as an old salty Sea-Dog with a wooden leg.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
At the end of the day (ya gotta love clichés) I can live with “fisher” but I draw the line at this PC crap when it infests the great game of Cricket.
Cricket has BATSMEN..its does not have “batters”, it makes my blood boil to hear the great unwashed (those who know nothing about the game) describing a piece of play and using the term “batter”.
“Batters” play baseball and the far inferior game of softball.
Right…rant over, continue on with your work.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I’m inclined to blame America
July 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
No, “batters” is an Australianism, and to be deprecated by the fastidious.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
StephenR Says:
July 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I’m inclined to blame America
There’s a surprise!
July 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hook, Line and Sinker
Caught amongst sharks
- without familiar faces
anywhere -
old snapper
finally gum the bait
and become part of the catch.
After fifty or so summers
of avoiding the trawl
loneliness
or a lapse in concentration
is enough these days
to make the front page
obituaries.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
wouldint sea-dogs not be gender neutral? dog being male canine, wouldint sea-bitch be the female equivlent?
July 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I am a fisherman who loves putting out miles of rig nets and catching everything except Hectors.
Got a problem with that then smack yourself in the head with a stunned mullet and see if I give a hoot.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Why should I change my language just to avoid being “PC”? I’ve always said “fisher”. Honestly BB, you overreact so easily.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
On the terms fisher or fisherman, I thought the term fisher had developed to refer to the amatuer kind. So fishermen are the serious professional kind and fishers the PC rest?
July 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
d4j: I just smacked myself in the headwith a stunned mullet, and realise you don’t gove a hoot!
Anyway, what about kahawai? Just saw heaps of them on sale in the local fish shop - both smoked and fresh. This is a potentially endangered species because we have overfished them. Why are they still being fished commercially?
I have to say I enjoy eating kahawai, but only if I catch them myself. They shouldn’t be available in the shop for $14 per kilo. Um, passed on the Orange Roughy, somewhat more expensive, and rightly so, as well. This is another species that we could well be fishing to extinction, because we as know so little about their life cycle and therefore their sustainability as a commercial fish catch.
BTW, the term “fisher” has been around since mythological Arthurian times.