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A fish blog

http://afishblog.com/

A blog focused on fish, fishing and life in the oceans.

Added on: Jan 2nd, 2008
Country: Norway
Language: English

Author: Kystbloggen
Listed in: Fishing Green
Tags: Fishing fish ocean marine biology fishing history bluefin tuna

Recent Posts

Finally a lobster

Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:56 in picture, norway, fall, pots, lobster, fish trap, lobsters and crabs, fish and fishing, lobster pots, lobster fishing

I was in the harbour when I head the sound of a boat coming in. It was Helge Selliken who had been out checking his fishing gear. With his four fish traps and three pots in the sea he usually got a lot of crabs and sometimes a cod – or two. Las...
Small Croatian fishing boats

Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 11:57 in Fishing, pictures, croatia, Squid, trogir, fish and fishing, seget vranjica, tucepi

I will like to post two pictures of small Croatian fishing boats. Croatia has a fishing fleet consisting of large trawlers and purse seiners, but on this post you will see smaller boats used by the locals for traditional fishing, nowadays more in ter...
Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama)

Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 09:12 in pomfret, trawl, fish and fishing, deal fish, atlantic pomfret, brama brama, lanternfish

In March and April a Norwegian fishing vessel was a part of a multinational survey on the fishing grounds west of Ireland. The survey covered the spawning area of the blue whiting in order to collect data about the blue whiting stock. Acoustic data a...
The biggest male halibut

Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 09:23 in Fishing, male, norway, big, weigh, length, halibut, long lines, fish and fishing, maximum size, male halibut

The Atlantic halibut is one of the biggest fish found in Norwegian waters. While the female halibut can reach a weight of more than 200 kilos, the male is considerably smaller. The pictures shown on this post are taken during a tagging experiment in ...
Fishermen with “need for speed”

Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 11:18 in fishing boat, galia, fish and fishing, fast boat, galia 610, harald nybø

In my last post I showed some pictures of a fishing boat fishing off the coast of Norway. The traditional coastal fisheries - commercial or recreational - have always been affected by efficiency improvement and in this post you will see a fast boat f...
The fisherman, his boat and the sea

Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 05:19 in photo, picture, norway, fish and fishing, fishingboat, aksel knutsen, fishingvessel

The number of fishermen in Norway is getting lower year by year and the vessels are getting bigger and bigger. In spite of this delvelopment the fleet of smaller coastal vessels is still playing an important role in the Norwegian fisheries. On this p...