tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4581951310256253855..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: It Had to Come to ThisThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42165706967213657702016-03-26T14:20:28.862-07:002016-03-26T14:20:28.862-07:00That reminds me of an article I read recently abou...That reminds me of an article I read recently about British-caught fish being shipped to Thailand for processing and return, winding up on UK grocery shelves.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19955113755414024842016-03-25T21:34:18.707-07:002016-03-25T21:34:18.707-07:00I was looking at some OECD documents the other day...I was looking at some OECD documents the other day, after finding it IMPOSSIBLE to find facts on the DFO pages about the relative size of the East vs West coast fisheries. The East coast fishery is FOUR times larger, according to the OECD.<br /><br />For years, the white fish in fish sticks, fake crab and what have you round here in Halifax was pollock, processed locally. Down at Cap'n High Liner HQ in Lunenburg, NS, they no longer process ANY Canadian fish. That's correct. Go to their website, and it's all Alaska and Russian fish processed in China. No more High Liner frozen rubbish for me! Despite their assurances, I have zero faith in Chinese fish processing - too many terrible stories easy to find on the web.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Sobeys and Loblaws/Superstore, we quite often get offered frozen haddock fillets. These turn out to be Greenland and Iceland haddock, sent to China for processing and sent back here. No matter how carefully you defrost them, they are waterlogged and flavourless.<br /><br />However, we are lucky around here to be able to obtain local fresh groundwater haddock at many locations. You have to be aware enough to know which day the fresh fish arrives, and not buy three day old product. Some restaurants even use hand-caught fish. Had some fresh haddock tonight - superb. At certain times of the year we can still get fresh local cod. When really fresh, nothing's better to my personal taste.<br /><br />Growing up in the Digby NS area, we just used to go down to the wharf to buy fresh fish, haddock, cod, halibut, scallops. Back in 1960, pollock were so numerous eating the offal from fish processing plants, the water boiled with them, big 'uns; as kids we used to gaff a couple of 15 or 20 pounders and take 'em back upstairs and get two cents a pound for them. Enough to buy pop, chips and chocolate bars on those sunny summer days bicycling about. Remember the nickel? That's what such stuff cost. Too messy to do every day though, gaffing pollock covered in fish guts! Only did it at high tide and a few hundred yards away you could wash off the smell in fresh seawater. <br /><br />Not many people liked them as they are a fishy fish, but flounder "fishing", catching them at high tide down Digby Neck in the bay at Freeport, you just needed an alder stick to stab them as they boiled in the surf at water's edge at high tide. Easy to clean and a great fry up for lunch if the tides corresponded with meal times.<br /><br />In 1980, just as though a switch had been flipped, inshore pollock disappeared. Fish plants began to close, catches of all kinds dropped. You never hear about that, all you ever hear about is the collapse of the cod fishery. Several years later, no more flounder either, flapping like crazy in the surf. The cause, who really knows? Flounder weren't a commonly targeted species so overfishing seemed unlikely.<br /><br />We've ruined things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-9075463744451044512016-03-25T16:34:23.240-07:002016-03-25T16:34:23.240-07:00Re Argentina sinks Chinese fish boat.
I don't ...Re Argentina sinks Chinese fish boat.<br />I don't think that most people realise just how far away from home that fishing boat was!!<br />Smacks of what I said about OUR fish and chips..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49098245454626101572016-03-25T16:30:05.523-07:002016-03-25T16:30:05.523-07:00This has been going on for a while particularly in...This has been going on for a while particularly in Africa.<br />Much of what we call Cod fish is a generic term for much of the white fish we eat.<br />Your Vancouver fish and chips could well be white fish caught off North Africa.<br />China have a huge investment in starving Africa to supply food to the home country.<br />I have not figure it out yet, but could the Chinese money laundering in Vancouver real estate be tied to the future supply of Canadian resources to China?<br />Gwynne Dyers Climate Wars is coming to pass!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com