I'm guessing either a Aussie or European Factory Trawler with a 35tn catch so everything is processed onboard. The big market for redfish is Asian to go with their rice bowels. That bag needs work! I was cringing as it was distorting coming up the ramp, the bright orange globes about every 10 ft along the top are part of the net sensor system.
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Those fish look like orange roughy, which would make it New Zeland or Australia. If so, bottom trawling is the worst way to capture those fish. The otter doors tear up the habitat so that it can no longer support future stocks of orange roughy. Mining the ocean is exactly correct. Get'em once and they're done. Gone.
12:25 still doesn't look like a salmon and if you go to the you tube version it's an Icelandic FT. Whether or not it's sustainable I guess depends on how well its managed.
What I'd really like to know is how much of what gets harvested goes to waste. I know the processors don't waste much of anything, but how much fish rots in display cases before it can be sold? I bet it's not much less than 20%....
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You can bet the waste is substantial. The fish at the bottom of the net got crushed by the weight of the fish above them, and cooked by the friction associated with dragging the heavy net on board. That's probably 20% loss right there......
There isn't much waste when those processors make surimi. Those fish are left to stiffen up in that bin the net is emptied into. Then they'll get processed and most every scrap is taken. The blood in the meat is "whitened" out. Yum!!
Those fish are definitely not from around here but it's the same process in AK. It's amazing to see hauls of fish like that and know it takes place in every ocean. Some are sustainable( for now) and some aren't but there's by-catch in every fishery and that is wasted. The fish are dead and thrown over for the crabs- makes no sense.
From the youtube description - "Fishing in Iceland waters in the North Atlantic. Big catch of red fish hauled on board a freezing trawler. Documentary of fishing in the valuable water around Iceland."
There isn't much waste when those processors make surimi. Those fish are left to stiffen up in that bin the net is emptied into. Then they'll get processed and most every scrap is taken. The blood in the meat is "whitened" out. Yum!!
My son had to take a video deposition on a surimi processor concerning a worker who had lost a finger while making fake crab. He stopped eating surimi after that assignment.