Completely insanse waste - Fish Fight

The idea behind quotas is surely to stop over fishing- but the techniques used means the only way they can meet the quotas is killing fish and throwing them back - the fishing techniques need to be addressed / updated imo.

@midsumerfae - i think i made it perfectly clear from my post that vegetarians don't eat fish. if you re read you will see i said i have been veggie but now i occassionally eat fish.

agreed you can get protein from the sources you mention. i've made the choice to add some fish in my diet. my issue with meat eating has never really been with eating animals as such more the meat / farming industry. for example, if a hunter / gatherer lifestyle were still possible i'd probably happily kill and eat small prey occassionally to supplement my nuts and berries. to me line caught wild fish falls into this category but it does become an issue when trawled, overfished and the amounts taken to feed the sheer number of humans are unsustainable. then again vegetables aren't perfect either. the large land tracts used to cultivate them devastates ecosystem. unless you always eat organic the chemicals used also kill living creatures. in addition root vegetable harvesting kills many living creatures. this is why jains don't eat root vegetables.

Just to say, ep 3 is now working on 4od!

Thank you for the suggestions to look harder in the frozen fish section. Sure enough there at the back in the neon value packs were the pollock fillets. £1.92 for 500g so I'm very happy with that.

Spent quite a long time in the tinned fish section, a bit disheartening to find so few tins with the MSC label on.

Tribpot - its a conspiracy - I recorded the programme on my freeview box and 10 min sin it stopped - but the whole programme shows as being recorded .

Over 400000 now.

Is anyone else unable to play episode 3 on channel4.com? I can't watch it on either laptop, very odd indeed.

would have been winkles, I expect. last time I had whelks I think it was with a chip fork.

My dad used to make us eat things with a pin when we were wee. I thought it was whelks but maybe it was them. Vile they were too.

no, whelks are big and rubbery. Winkles are tiny - shell is less than a cm long and you have to, er, winkle the snot meat out with a pin.

I think I've had them - do you mean whelks?

I suppose that's why they're sustainable - they take so long to eat they can breed some more before you've finished the bag.

ooh, go on.
Winkles are already good, of course. But no-one will notice you are sustainable and it takes bloody ages to eat them and you need a pin - have you ever done it?
I had some and everyone else said they were like snot but I thought they were lovely

Yes, DH and I couldn't actually believe this the other night. It's so wasteful.

Have signed up to the fish fight.

Also, pondering changing my name to RipMackerelWinkle

Will be back to post more but yes, it's a bloody DISGRACE.

We love fish in our family.
I am from abroad from a fish loving country.

The prices in the UK are so expensive so people don't buy it.

I bought yesterdry 2 lemon soles-for £17.00 at my London local fishmonger.

I would love him tackling this aspect on his campaign.
Even sardines are so expensive in England.

Many fishmongers I have visited are disgusting. Smelly, dirty shops with old fish... no wonder people don't eat fish.

Fish shops are just dire. Most of the fish and chips shops I have tried sell only frozen fish and soggy chips. It is painful to taste.

I will now read the whole thread....

petition has passed a third of a million now.

lol @ coddiest ever.

tbh by the time I get to the freezer section in the supermarket I'm in glazed over automaton mode. The end is nigh just get some fish fingers and peas ...

I will do fish first next time when I am sprightly, fully focused and vigilant. Should probably print off the MCSs guide too.

If they were cod they'd be saying 'COD fishfingers made from COD, our CODDIEST ever' on the box.
if they say nothing they're probably not cod.
it's like the opposite of free range eggs where it's a case of if it doesn't say it assume the worst.

I've just checked my Birds eye fish fingers and they are made from Pollock. All this time I assumed they were cod. Well I never.

Right, will be most focused and targetful on next Sainsbo's visit

Sainsbo have a good butcher / fish monger too. Can really sharpen a knife!

Don't think of it as freezer dithering, think of it as focused and targeted research.

Yes they are proper fishmongers at Morrisons. They will fillet before your very eyes. They have proper butchers too.

(If you have never been to Morrisons be warned, buy the pies but not the olives.)

Interesting about the non cod fishfingers. I'll have a closer look next time (although I hate being a freezer dithererer).

Never been to Morrisons. Are they really proper fishmongers (ie do stuff with fish out the back rather than just pissing about laying them artfully on the ice with a bit of parsley out front)?