Stellwagon Trawlers

[fish4striper]

Originally Posted by Typhoon

FYI all of the fish on today's gloucester auction "scratched" meaning it was a pile of junk with no demand. So they're all out there killing themselves and not making a penny on it.

Where's it go in this case? Make fish sticks?

[niko]

what causes it to be scratched? beat up in the nets or poor handling?

[Typhoon]

Originally Posted by niko

what causes it to be scratched? beat up in the nets or poor handling?

Lack of demand and soft spawny fish. There's only a few people who can take really bad quality fish.

They'll try and sell it again today. The yields on the spawny fish suck.

If you ever want to know how how much fish is on the auction you can call the hail line 978-281-9600 for Gloucester and 508-999-0153 for New Bedford. It's a recorded message telling you what's available.

Sometimes it gives the boat name. They'll say 40k lbs coming in on the Harmony. The harmony is a dragger and the fish quality sucks. "Cape Boats" means nice hook fish or nicer long line fish.

[nor-easter]

From articles in the New Bedford Paper the Mid-Water Fleet that fishes for Nor-Pal is tied up and not fishing. The are/were Mid-Water Trawlers.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by nor-easter

From articles in the New Bedford Paper the Mid-Water Fleet that fishes for Nor-Pal is tied up and not fishing. The are/were Mid-Water Trawlers.

Good.