Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Fish farming........
- ipcompto (Ian Compton)
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I would like to ask you all what is your opinion on the following......and i do not want retarded armchair warrior crap in the replies......we grow worms here organically.....we recycle our paper and card board via vermicomposting...ie the production of compost via worm castings which is worm poo.The whole process is 100 percent organic.We have also started a ragworm breeding project which looks promising too with the hope that we could produce protein organically via the worms....I was wondering about farming carp for food organically too.So we would take waste and at the end produce a fish 100 percent organically grown without the use of processed fish meal in the food.Practically every fish we eat is contaminated even down to the trout in our rivers.Mercury is a big problem most fish flesh will contain it because a lot of the food given to farmed animals is fish meal.....which is madness.....
So if i produced organic fish for the table what do you think the general intelligent public would think?And remember before you answer that most of us here eat fish and kill fish inadvertently......anyway i just thought this might be an interesting subject for debate because i am considering it........
cheers
Ian
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I did once and they're dreadfully 'earthy'.
Having said that, the majority of Eastern Europeans eat them (along with - far more regrettably - Pike) so they must have some sort of appeal.
Mind you, why would anyone be bothered to pay for fish that they can steal from our lakes and rivers anyway?
Since I don't suspect it to be these 'people' who you would be targeting, the idea of organically-produced fish could be an appealing product for many.
I'll watch this with interest.
John
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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- anthonyd (Anthony Debesne)
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Trout would be a better idea but you would have to have access to a clean clear flowing river.
We used to go to a fish farm in France when we were young to fish and catch huge rainbow trouts and we kept the catch by paying a price per kilos.
The major drawback of fish farming organicly or not is you concentrate waste of a lots of fishes on a small footprint wich can creates organic pollution. You just have to have look at the poor record of salmon farming in different countries.
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Anthony
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Congrats on the Composting etc, I work in a wealthy University and we compost no material generated by Grounds, the waste from the Restaurants is taken away and composted and Paper, Plastic Glass etc is recycled but the Green waste is in a huge pile at the back of the Campus.
Well done.
H.
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It's NOT "Chee lick", NOT "Chee Chee Licks"!!! Cichlids is pronounced as "Sick Lids"!!!!!
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- anglecichlid (ciaran hogan)
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I've seen the likes of black bok and ostrich stakes in lidls but never carp!
And as for the ragworm,if you could get that going and sell it for half the price the bait shops sell it for
You would do well!
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
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Yea and a beach caster with 50lbs lineThe polish will be quein up to get in,they love course fish to eat,but they r crap fishermen,i do see them on the canal with 3 inch spinners tryin to catch baby roach a perch
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
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I'm buying farmed French carp every Christmas and I'm sure that they are not exactly organic.
About carp taste- I bet you all would like my owen baked stuffed carp with mushrooms and cream sauce. Nothing Earthy there lads
Cichliddave, Anglecichlid I am Polish and I don't consider myself as crap angler tough But what I can know about fishing
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www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...ox-trout-season-2011
I'm greatly impressed with the care and attention you pay to the well-being of the fish you catch.
Sadly, Tomi, not all of your countrymen are so careful. I have personally seen Eastern European 'anglers' here in the Midlands and not one has been so considerate - everything they catch is immediately consigned to a black plastic dustbin bag. The motto here seems to be 'take everything'!
Surely they don't eat 3" trout and perch?
We can all relate tales of bad practice on the riverbank, let's just hope that more Eastern Europeans learn to embrace the 'catch-and-release' style which you so obviously have embraced.
John
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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Ian[/b], If you will go that road, I for one will buy carp of you on a regular basis- once a year but still
I'm buying farmed French carp every Christmas and I'm sure that they are not exactly organic.
About carp taste- I bet you all would like my owen baked stuffed carp with mushrooms and cream sauce. Nothing Earthy there lads
Cichliddave, Anglecichlid I am Polish and I don't consider myself as crap angler tough But what I can know about fishing
Sorry tomi I really didn't mean to offend you
I'm sure your a capable angler,
That said it's also unfair to tar everyone with the same
Brush,
But I did see lads on the canal a few years ago with a 13ft
Beach caster course fishing
I honestly couldn't say weather most polish are "good" anglers or not
But I can say this,
I worked with polish plumbers for a year or two and I have never seen work like it
Before or since,
Flawless!
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
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I for one know that you are a good fisherman, in every sense of the word. Some trout you caught last year mate.
Carp is good eating, if prepared well, even the early christian monks used to eat them during the winter months.
BTW hows the new job going? Congrats on that.
Pete
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Cheers. It's going good. It's not the lake but it is under the roof
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brian seems you are already 3/4 way to ians plans, especially with talapia and mahseers, asian favourites fish, we all know there is a large asian population here, large market.wish I had money to investnile tilipia might be a goer as they can take lower temperatures than most tropicals,if you could build a large pond in a polytunnel they would have tropical temps all summer.i have a 65x24 foot polytunnel ,for growing veg and friut,i built a pond in it this year and had tropical temps all summer,had pheonix barbs big chinese food fish,went from couple of inches to 2 lb weight before the end of the summer,they love greenery eatin tons of duckweed etc.also had a couple of florida gars,common carp,snakeheads and the mahseers that i got otta your place.started to build 4000 gal and 2000 gal concrete ponds with windows for this year.the 2 foot ali gar s goin in there plus barbs florida gars snakeheads some hardy cichlids channel cats masheer etc
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