Deepwater stock includes some of the smallest fish, newly targeted for trawling in the hunt for species to be minced into food for farmed salmon – even, indeed, for the human frying pan… …Days and nights of wind: not quite the worst we’ve known, but very nearly. Terraces of waves piled up to the horizon and tumbling down a slope of foam to claw at the edge of the dunes…. …Once, in the 1980s, such a storm left the tideline littered with thousands of dead fish, all with gills snapped forward in some tumultuous surge of sandy water. Most were the rockfish of inshore waters…
Irish Times, 11/01/14. Read the full article ‘Lanterns and boars: fascinating fingers of fish food‘.
