Automated fish filleting has been a part of the commercial fishing industry for years. While the machines that have traditionally been used have certainly sped up fish processing, they can also be wasteful and are generally best when working with consistently-sized fish, like farm raised fish. Wild caught fish tend to vary in size too […]
Generally speaking, we love just about anything about saltwater fishing. But this does not appeal to us in the least. This picture, taken by Ingolf Kristiansen, shows a school of saithe (Pollachius virens), one of two kinds of pollock, frozen solid in a Norwegian bay. Apparently, the fish were trying to leave the bay when […]
German angler Marco Liebenow has landed a 513-pound Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) that is certain to shatter the current International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world record by more than 94 pounds. Caught out of Kjollefjord, Norway, the fish was more than nine-feet long and was too big to be hauled on to the boat. Instead, Liebenow […]
The UK newspaper The Telegraph and the US newspaper Daily News are reporting that German angler Michael Eisele caught a record breaking 103 pound Atlantic cod in the Breivikfjord near Hammerfest, northern Norway on April 28, 2013. Eisele is waiting for confirmation from the International Game Fish Association that the fish overtakes (“destroys” or “humiliates” […]