He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.
Ernest HemingwayLast year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven WrightWhen I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening's Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game. They were, in a phrase, British rednecks. And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world except among the college-educated American elite. In Rio or Rome, the soccer fan is a Regular José or a Regular Giuseppe. [...] By contrast, if an American is that kind of Regular Joe, he doesn't watch soccer. He watches the NFL or bass fishing tournaments or Ultimate Fighting. In an American context, avid soccer fandom is almost exclusively located among two groups of people (a) foreigners—God bless 'em—and (b) pretentious yuppie snobs. Which is to say, conservatives don't hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.
Robert Stacy McCainTag: alabama liberals drinking rome football italy racism soccer conservatives 2008 london fishing foreigners 2010 american-football 2010-fifa-world-cup arsenal-fc auburn-alabama bass-fishing bubbas cockneys football-hooliganism liberal-elite nfl pubs rednecks rio-de-janeiro snobs soccer-in-the-united-states ultimate-fighting yobs yuppies
Bycatch and discards are a fact of life to a fisherman. There is no fishing method that catches only the quarry. ...The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about a third of what is caught worldwide, some 29 million tons, goes over the side. This takes what is hauled from the sea to around 132 million tons a year. Add to that the number of organisms that are killed or damaged by net, line, or trap and are never landed--such as whales, porpoises, turtles, and birds--and the number of animals destroyed on the bottom, and the total catch by fishermen reaches something more like 220 million tons a year. Consider that much of the weight of palatable fish is head, cartilage, bone, and offal, which goes over the side or is thrown away by processors. Consider also that about 44 million tons of fish are caught to make industrial products and food for farmed fish. Consider that some of the palatable fish caught will be turned into products for other than human consumption--as cat food, for instance. Consider that there may be an element of waste because some fish will not sell. Taking all these things into account, it is possible to conclude that the amount of protein eaten by someone or something is maybe less than 20 percent of the 104 million tons landed, and only 10 percent of the amount of marine animals destroyed annually in the oceans. These are rough figures, but, given a wide margin of error, they are about right. So catching wild fish is a wasteful business.
Charles CloverTag: fishing
Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?
Charles CloverTag: fishing endangered-species dining sushi celebrity-chefs chefs
By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the past--saying catches were going up when, in fact, they were going down--this statement is worth examining carefully. When you do, you find it to be an observation of previous trends, not a reflection of what could happen or what people might want--in the same way as Red Delicious was once far and away the most popular apple in the United States because it was basically the only apple you could get. The FAO is simply observing that fish farming is the fastest growing form of food production in the world--growing at 9 percent a year and by 12-13 percent in the United States. Nobody is asking us whether we want this. It is just happening. The continued destruction of mangrove swamps in poor countries to provide shrimp for people living in rich countries is simply the market operating in a vacuum untroubled by ethics. It is a reflection of what will go on happening if we do not find ways of exercising any choice in the matter.
Charles CloverTag: food ethics fish fishing aquaculture farmed-fish fish-farming
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.
Marc BekoffTag: animal-rights killing fishing hunting speciesism
You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
AristophanesTag: peace greed materialism disdain vice fishing trouble politicians eels filth unrest unclean demagoguery grime slime upheaval
— И что это у нас?
— Ну раз мы летим на катере, то можем взять с собой еще больше, чем в лес, — беззаботно пояснил Фрэнк. — Так что кроме палатки, аптечки, генератора и…
— Стоп! — вскинул руку капитан. — Я понял. Уточняю вводную. Мы летим на рыбалку. На катере. На пару часов, не более. Вопрос: что из снаряжения жизненно необходимо, подчеркиваю, необходимо для выполнения этой задачи?
— Наверное… — Взгляд навигатора пометался между сумкой и коробками, после чего зафиксировался на капитанских ботинках. — Удочки?
— Неправильный ответ. Правильный ответ, — добавил капитан, так и не дождавшись от Фрэнка иных предположений, — «мозги»!
— Для приманки?
Tag: humor foolishness fishing
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
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