Fishing Overview
By Christopher John Bennett Christopher John Bennett
Fishing is, in simple words, catching fish from sea, river, or any other aquatic source. It is one of the oldest methods for gathering food in human history. Over 38 million people in the world are related to any form of fishing or fishing business. In many countries, fishing is the most accepted profession and major income source. Beside a profession, fishing is very popular as a recreational sport. Fishing is more common in Asia than any other part of the world and about one fifth of total production rounds up from here.
The main source of collecting fish is the sea. There are some popular sea grounds for fishing and fish is available in these spots around the whole year. Some of these grounds, known as fishing banks, are Agulhas bank, Flemish Cap, Grand banks, Hawkins bank, Princess Alice etc. Most of the fishing villages grow near an available fishing bank. Some of these villages are hundred years old and still following the tradition. Most people in a fishing village are fishermen. Their work include from catching fish to prepare and send it to market. Usually the fishing villages are wholesaler to the local shops or may be to the international market. Sometimes, if the bank is in deep sea, the fishermen use a floating zone to store fish.
Inland fishing is also very important. It is the main source for the domestic demand of a country. This kind of fishing does not need lots of equipments or technology and it involves both professional and recreational fishermen. A fisherman is a person who catches fish. However, sometimes, his job is to prepare fish as well as sending it to the market and for that, the fisher man must have knowledge about the fish processing system. Women are usually very expert in fish processing techniques and marketing in the fishing villages. Sometimes they even go to fishing at sea. The fishermen use boat for fishing, but a practical fishing boat is different in many ways from a regular boat. It needs a lot of modifications to prepare the boat for long time sea travel and also for catching and storing fish. Other fishing equipments are also installed in a fishing boat. Radio communication system is also an important part of a fishing boat.
Catching fish is not so easy. It requires a lot of techniques, skills, and patience. Professional fishermen use modern technology like radio communication and GPS besides regular fishing equipments for fishing. Using those things allows them to go to the deep sea with a low risk and also they keep a constant contact with the coast to get weather information.
Besides the fish, other aquatic animals are also included in fishing. All of them are widely accepted food, known as seafood, all over the world. Some of the top producers of seafood are the China, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Peru, and United States. About one third of total production comes from China. The fish market and related business is very wide spread and still growing.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Beach Fishing in South Wales
Beach Fishing in South Wales
By Tom Sangers
Dale Beach
Dale Beach is a great bass storm beach during the summer and autumn months. The beach also offers fishermen the chance to catch flounders, dabs, dogfish, whiting,
mackerel, garfish and even the occasional ray depending on the season. Peeler crab can make the best bait as can lugworm, fish strips and ragworm. Long casting is ideal here especially if you are going after rays.
Broad Haven
Another good beach for bass, while its flat beach with sand and shingle also make it a great place to catch plaice and dabs. It's also possible to catch Gurnard, dogfish and odd turbot here too. If you have good long distance casters you could also catch tope
Lydstep Beach
Like a lot of West Wales beaches a great casting outfit is a real bonus here. After storms the bass tend to come fairly close to the beach on the spring tides. Lydstep is also good for catching flatties, whiting and dogfish.
Newgale Sands
Newgale Sands is popular among swimmers and surfers, yet during the summer nights its great for fishing with bass, whiting, flatfish and mackerel also out there just waiting to be caught. The beach is shingle and you will be casting out onto a sand seabed so sandeel is a good bait; mackerel strips, worm baits and ray are good bait for taking flatties and coalfish during the winter months.
Whitesands Bay
From Whitesands Bay you can reach deep water providing you have a good beachcaster. The beach has good bass fishing from early spring to the end of November. Rays, plaice, flounders and even the odd turbot can also be caught. During the winter months whiting, cod and coalfish occupy the waters. Sandeel and crab are great baits for the bass.
Newport Beach
Fishing can be had on this big beach with either beachcasters or a smaller rod while wadding. During the summer months there are bass who are swimming into the Nevern estuary while there are plenty of flatfish to be had near the river mouth, rays have also been seen swimming close to the shore. Bass can be caught on the fly yet sea trout require an Environment Agency rod license
This article was written by Tom Sangers on behalf of Celtic Haven Pembrokeshire Cottages which make ideal accommodation for a Pembrokeshire Cottage Holiday.
By Tom Sangers
Dale Beach
Dale Beach is a great bass storm beach during the summer and autumn months. The beach also offers fishermen the chance to catch flounders, dabs, dogfish, whiting,
mackerel, garfish and even the occasional ray depending on the season. Peeler crab can make the best bait as can lugworm, fish strips and ragworm. Long casting is ideal here especially if you are going after rays.
Broad Haven
Another good beach for bass, while its flat beach with sand and shingle also make it a great place to catch plaice and dabs. It's also possible to catch Gurnard, dogfish and odd turbot here too. If you have good long distance casters you could also catch tope
Lydstep Beach
Like a lot of West Wales beaches a great casting outfit is a real bonus here. After storms the bass tend to come fairly close to the beach on the spring tides. Lydstep is also good for catching flatties, whiting and dogfish.
Newgale Sands
Newgale Sands is popular among swimmers and surfers, yet during the summer nights its great for fishing with bass, whiting, flatfish and mackerel also out there just waiting to be caught. The beach is shingle and you will be casting out onto a sand seabed so sandeel is a good bait; mackerel strips, worm baits and ray are good bait for taking flatties and coalfish during the winter months.
Whitesands Bay
From Whitesands Bay you can reach deep water providing you have a good beachcaster. The beach has good bass fishing from early spring to the end of November. Rays, plaice, flounders and even the odd turbot can also be caught. During the winter months whiting, cod and coalfish occupy the waters. Sandeel and crab are great baits for the bass.
Newport Beach
Fishing can be had on this big beach with either beachcasters or a smaller rod while wadding. During the summer months there are bass who are swimming into the Nevern estuary while there are plenty of flatfish to be had near the river mouth, rays have also been seen swimming close to the shore. Bass can be caught on the fly yet sea trout require an Environment Agency rod license
This article was written by Tom Sangers on behalf of Celtic Haven Pembrokeshire Cottages which make ideal accommodation for a Pembrokeshire Cottage Holiday.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Fishing Luggage
By Ivor Mouat Platinum Quality Author
Fishing luggage sounds a bit like something a fisherman might take with him on holiday, and in a way it is. Fishermen, or fisher women for that matter too, have an increasingly large amount of equipment to carry around with them. There are all kinds of hooks, lines, sinkers, bait, rods, and other things that most people have never heard of. That's where fishing luggage comes in; it's the bags and containers, cool boxes and wallets, and cases and buckets that those with a passion for fishing use to cart all their bits and pieces around.
Fishing or angling is the sport of catching fish. It can be either fresh water or saltwater fish caught in rivers and lakes or the sea. Like hunting, fishing came about for a very practical reason; people needed to eat and fish taste good. It certainly isn't anything new either. An ancient Egyptian rock carving from 4,000 years ago shows people dangling lines from rods in the river Nile.
The Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle was arguably the first proper publication to describe fishing, or fly fishing at least, as a sport. It was published in 1496. A dozen different kinds of artificial flies are described in this book and surprisingly, six of them are still in use today. Accessories such as flies and lines that can be changed around need to be carried in some way, and while the term fishing luggage is not specifically mentioned in this book, it is apparent that some kind of carrying container is commonly being used in the late 15th century by those who love to fish.
It wasn't until the 17th century that angling really took off. By this time a wire loop at the tip of the rod became common to assist the line running through. This was needed because of the invention of the reel. As fishing moved into the 18th century, accessories of all kinds became common and were regularly used by all the keenest of anglers. There still wasn't any kind of standardised luggage to carry it all around, but that was just around the corner.
Today, like travel luggage, fishing luggage can come in matching sets. There is even a hint of designer luggage for the more fashion aware angler. Buying matching sets does have its advantages as there is usually a bag or container to suit every need. However, the dyed-in-the-wool angler might not be so keen to have matching sets of luggage, believing that getting the right piece of luggage for a particular need is the best way to go, thereby building the luggage set up slowly as and when required.
Anglers tend to walk a fair distance to where the action takes place. Lugging around countless pieces of fishing luggage just because you can is probably not such a good idea. Choose your luggage carefully and sensibly. Buy the most essential pieces first and expand from there. This is not an expensive things to do, so don't skimp and save; get sturdy luggage items that will do the job and last the course. Then all you have to do is concentrate on what you enjoy doing most - waiting for that big one to bite.
Ivor Mouat is a keen writer with many interests. One of his websites is dedicated to fishing and all the tackle and fishing luggage that comes with the sport.
Fishing luggage sounds a bit like something a fisherman might take with him on holiday, and in a way it is. Fishermen, or fisher women for that matter too, have an increasingly large amount of equipment to carry around with them. There are all kinds of hooks, lines, sinkers, bait, rods, and other things that most people have never heard of. That's where fishing luggage comes in; it's the bags and containers, cool boxes and wallets, and cases and buckets that those with a passion for fishing use to cart all their bits and pieces around.
Fishing or angling is the sport of catching fish. It can be either fresh water or saltwater fish caught in rivers and lakes or the sea. Like hunting, fishing came about for a very practical reason; people needed to eat and fish taste good. It certainly isn't anything new either. An ancient Egyptian rock carving from 4,000 years ago shows people dangling lines from rods in the river Nile.
The Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle was arguably the first proper publication to describe fishing, or fly fishing at least, as a sport. It was published in 1496. A dozen different kinds of artificial flies are described in this book and surprisingly, six of them are still in use today. Accessories such as flies and lines that can be changed around need to be carried in some way, and while the term fishing luggage is not specifically mentioned in this book, it is apparent that some kind of carrying container is commonly being used in the late 15th century by those who love to fish.
It wasn't until the 17th century that angling really took off. By this time a wire loop at the tip of the rod became common to assist the line running through. This was needed because of the invention of the reel. As fishing moved into the 18th century, accessories of all kinds became common and were regularly used by all the keenest of anglers. There still wasn't any kind of standardised luggage to carry it all around, but that was just around the corner.
Today, like travel luggage, fishing luggage can come in matching sets. There is even a hint of designer luggage for the more fashion aware angler. Buying matching sets does have its advantages as there is usually a bag or container to suit every need. However, the dyed-in-the-wool angler might not be so keen to have matching sets of luggage, believing that getting the right piece of luggage for a particular need is the best way to go, thereby building the luggage set up slowly as and when required.
Anglers tend to walk a fair distance to where the action takes place. Lugging around countless pieces of fishing luggage just because you can is probably not such a good idea. Choose your luggage carefully and sensibly. Buy the most essential pieces first and expand from there. This is not an expensive things to do, so don't skimp and save; get sturdy luggage items that will do the job and last the course. Then all you have to do is concentrate on what you enjoy doing most - waiting for that big one to bite.
Ivor Mouat is a keen writer with many interests. One of his websites is dedicated to fishing and all the tackle and fishing luggage that comes with the sport.
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