Read
an interesting news ! – Both fish and Marine enthuse me and it was about
transportation of fish.
We
do see many trucks on road, especially near fishing harbour transporting fish
and other sea food. They would be
refrigerated trucks as even dead fish would be kept frozen to ensure that they
remain good till they reach the destination for processing. On the other hand transportation of live fish
requires oxygen for respiration and removal of the toxic gases and by-products
that accumulate, such as CO2 and ammonia. Understand that most finfish are transported live in water
supersaturated with oxygen and kept at a temperature low enough to reduce their
metabolism. Fish is often starved (also called conditioned) before
transportation to reduce its metabolism and increase the packing density.
Crustaceans are transported live in wet packages using wet sawdust or other
ways to keep the atmosphere surrounding the live animals humid and cool.
There
are hundreds of varieties and Mackerel is a commonly known one. In Tamil perhaps it is ‘illa (eye-la) or
kanang kelluthi’. The mackerel is a fish of the open sea; while numbers of
them, small ones especially, often enter estuaries and harbors in search of
food, they never run up into fresh water. Neither are they directly dependent
either on the coastline or on the bottom in any way at any stage in their
lives. Their normal range seems not to
extend oceanward beyond the upper part of the continental slope, in which they
contrast with their relatives the tunas, the bonitos, and the albacores.
Mackerel,
in fact is a common name applied to a
number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the
amily Scombridae. They may be found in all tropical and temperate seas. Most
live offshore in the oceanic environment but a few, like the Spanish mackerel,
enter bays and can be caught near bridges and piers. Common features of
mackerel are a slim, cylindrical shape (as opposed to the tunas which are
deeper bodied) and numerous finlets on the dorsal andventral sides behind the
dorsal and anal fins. The scales are extremely small, if present. The largest
species called "mackerel" is the king mackerel (Scomberomorus
cavalla) which can grow to 66 inches (1.68 m). A female mackerel lays about one
million eggs at a time.
Shearwater,
tuna, dolphins, whales, orca, seagulls, marlins, sharks, and humans may hunt
mackerel. Mackerel are prized (and are highly harvested) for their meat, which
is often very oily. They are known for their fighting ability, and are an important
recreational and commercial fishery.
A
truck carrying loads of mackerel ploughed off the road, overturned and spilled
in Northern Ireland . The farmer’s field was strewn with fish – the
quantity makes it hit the headlines – it was 20 tonnes of fish !
Daily
Mail reports that a farmer was understandably left fed up to the gills by the
sight of fish after a staggering 20 tonnes of mackerel spilled onto his land
from an overturned lorry. It was
travelling towards Ardglass in County
Down , Northern Ireland ,
last week when it appeared to have caught a grass verge, ploughed through 30
yards of hedge and fallen into a field belonging to Gordon Flinn, 71. A digger
and a crane were called in as 12 men worked for seven hours straight in a
‘large scale’ clean-up operation following the accident. The fish measured
two-feet deep in places. The driver had
hit a verge and the fish had come down on the hedge, destroying it and spilling
them all into my field.
Photo courtesy :
www.dailymail.co.uk
The
farmer upon getting a call from Police about an accident at his field was
expecting to see boxes of fish fingers but it was totally unexpected sight with
thousands of fishes all over the land.
It reportedly took seven hours to clean the fish. The owner was quoted as saying that : ‘The
one really bizarre thing was though, is that there wasn’t a smell of fish. I
think there was more than enough to feed the 5,000.
The
driver was initially taken to hospital, but seems to have had a lucky escape
and later returned to the scene uninjured to drive the digger and help the
rescue operation.
With
regards
S.
Sampathkumar.
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