Yes, like your freezer RI used to have cod.. If you read some of Frank Daignault's books he mentions catching them off the beach. I bet there are a few cod lurking in the shadows out there, but I doubt that they are there in numbers. Back when Frank was fishing round my parts, the Fish Co-op in Gallillee would dump all of their frames inside harbor of refuge, thus causing a huge feast for cod and pollack. I think that Frank was capitalizing on that..... who knows?
Cod's my favorite fish to eat and I've never caught one:( can I tag along sometime??

:laughs: :crying:

Happened to me about 10yrs. ago. I washed the freezer out with bleach 2 or 3 times. To this day it still has a faint oder.
30% yeild is real close.

'butcher

Other way around, I was thinking 30% of the fish was guts, etc.

70% usable meet.

40% is average, but if you're steaking and saving heads for fish stock I think it's higher.

-WW

I would break my size 12 Boot of in the crack of his A$$!!!!

Already did that (figuratively) over the phone. Gave one manager of the company that screwed up a nuclear piece of my mind. Lots of "f-bombs." :af: :wall: :splat: I hate getting confrontational with strangers but when they said I had to dig up receipts for the two charter trips in November and another striped bass charter in June of '03 and some proof of where and how I jigged up squid and b&t shop receipt for eels I got really burned up.

Same guy I screamed at got me me even more angry (if you can believe that) because he didn't believe one could catch so much cod fish. I was apoplectic :splat: ... it got so bad I had to get an intermediary to step in to communicate to the idiot.

Needless to say won't be doing business anymore with this company and will have nothing good to say about its service, even if I am made whole. It's not just about the money it's also the aggravation. :af:

If the weather stays nice we may just find out if we still do.....
:D

Options from a contractor's point of view;

If he pulled a building permit, you can make his life miserable, starting with the building commissioners office in your town. Could file a complaint, which in Mass. would be followed up by his state's licensing board. Unresolved complaints can make it uncomfortable to get future building permits in that town. (squeaky wheel gets the grease, and gets the attention of the building inspector's office)

Since I was a PM for many moons, let me put it in your jargon WeeWee; If you got a trading error, COVER and forget it. It only will go the wrong way and draw the ire of regulators. So if it were me, as the contractor, I would be trying to come to a reasonable settlement before going to my liability insurance company, unless your $$ figure is worth it for me to file it. And I sure would be trying to not have a client making noise in the inspector's office if I intended to work in that town again anytime soon.

Hope that helps. Maybe the guy has calmed down and would understand what ammo you now could be holding over him. If not, get his insurance company and deal directly with them, or better, send your homeowner's insurance company after his liability company. The demands for receipts should be coming from them, not from the contractor. Could be smokescreen trying to send you away.