Bloke complains about fish in a harbour

[rhinochopig]

Timmy35 said:

rhinochopig said:

Now everyone has had a laugh at the chap's expense it's perhaps time to point out that if seafood smells fishy then it has probably been left rotting - so fair enough to complain.

Fresh fish does not smell fishy, it smells of the sea. Fish that smell fishy are at best, well past their best, or at worst, off. Crustaceans are generally alive when brought ashore, so again if dead or stinking are probably off.

And did it say anywhere that the fish was to be consumed? No. It could well have been waste fish.

As for fish smelling of the sea, you go makeral fishing, after handling the wriggling little buggers straight from the briney you smell your hands, I guarentee they will smell as fishy as a f**k.

Then it is unpleasant to leave it stinking up the quayside. People wouldn't accept it with rotting livestock in a public place.

Your hands may smell of fish, but a tray of fresh mackerel does not stink of fish. I'm from Hull originally so was brought up in a fishing community. I used to do a st load of sea fishing - shore based, quay based, or boat based, I've even been out on working boats emptying pots and rebating them, and long lining (as a kid) so I do know what fresh fish should smell of and it ain't fishy.

But don't take my word for it:

http://fishcooking.about.com/od/howtochoosefreshfi...

http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/318/is-the-fis...

[Pothole]

thinfourth2 said:

Bloody townies

The case for building a big wall around london grows stronger every day


But some folk don't know you have to kill pigs before you get pork

London is not a town. Nor is it the only conurbation in the UK.

[sharpfocus]

The fish were waiting to be taken back out to sea as bait.

[rhinochopig]

sharpfocus said:

The fish were waiting to be taken back out to sea as bait.

Good point. The claim it was a trawler could be wrong, although even so using crab as a bait is unusual to say the least given the price it attracts at the moment.

[Timmy35]

rhinochopig said:

Timmy35 said:

rhinochopig said:

Now everyone has had a laugh at the chap's expense it's perhaps time to point out that if seafood smells fishy then it has probably been left rotting - so fair enough to complain.

Fresh fish does not smell fishy, it smells of the sea. Fish that smell fishy are at best, well past their best, or at worst, off. Crustaceans are generally alive when brought ashore, so again if dead or stinking are probably off.

And did it say anywhere that the fish was to be consumed? No. It could well have been waste fish.

As for fish smelling of the sea, you go makeral fishing, after handling the wriggling little buggers straight from the briney you smell your hands, I guarentee they will smell as fishy as a f**k.

Then it is unpleasant to leave it stinking up the quayside. People wouldn't accept it with rotting livestock in a public place.

Your hands may smell of fish, but a tray of fresh mackerel does not stink of fish. I'm from Hull originally so was brought up in a fishing community. I used to do a st load of sea fishing - shore based, quay based, or boat based, I've even been out on working boats emptying pots and rebating them, and long lining (as a kid) so I do know what fresh fish should smell of and it ain't fishy.

But don't take my word for it:

http://fishcooking.about.com/od/howtochoosefreshfi...

http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/318/is-the-fis...

Nope I'm not taking your word for it over my experience of pulling fish out of the sea, getting them off the hook and smelling my hands afterwards.

As for a public place it was a working fishing quay you numpty.

[Timmy35]

rhinochopig said:

sharpfocus said:

The fish were waiting to be taken back out to sea as bait.

Good point. The claim it was a trawler could be wrong, although even so using crab as a bait is unusual to say the least given the price it attracts at the moment.

No it isn't, it's one of the best and most often used line baits you can use for many species including Sea Bass.

[BliarOut]

rhinochopig said:

Timmy35 said:

rhinochopig said:

Now everyone has had a laugh at the chap's expense it's perhaps time to point out that if seafood smells fishy then it has probably been left rotting - so fair enough to complain.

Fresh fish does not smell fishy, it smells of the sea. Fish that smell fishy are at best, well past their best, or at worst, off. Crustaceans are generally alive when brought ashore, so again if dead or stinking are probably off.

And did it say anywhere that the fish was to be consumed? No. It could well have been waste fish.

As for fish smelling of the sea, you go makeral fishing, after handling the wriggling little buggers straight from the briney you smell your hands, I guarentee they will smell as fishy as a f**k.

Then it is unpleasant to leave it stinking up the quayside. People wouldn't accept it with rotting livestock in a public place.

Your hands may smell of fish, but a tray of fresh mackerel does not stink of fish. I'm from Hull originally so was brought up in a fishing community. I used to do a st load of sea fishing - shore based, quay based, or boat based, I've even been out on working boats emptying pots and rebating them, and long lining (as a kid) so I do know what fresh fish should smell of and it ain't fishy.

But don't take my word for it:

http://fishcooking.about.com/od/howtochoosefreshfi...

http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/318/is-the-fis...

Wanna come cycling through Lincolnshire with me when they've been much spreading?

Now that's *proper* smelly.

[PugwasHDJ80]

rhinochopig said:

Then it is unpleasant to leave it stinking up the quayside. People wouldn't accept it with rotting livestock in a public place.

Your hands may smell of fish, but a tray of fresh mackerel does not stink of fish. I'm from Hull originally so was brought up in a fishing community. I used to do a st load of sea fishing - shore based, quay based, or boat based, I've even been out on working boats emptying pots and rebating them, and long lining (as a kid) so I do know what fresh fish should smell of and it ain't fishy.

But don't take my word for it:

http://fishcooking.about.com/od/howtochoosefreshfi...

http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/318/is-the-fis...

Read back what you've written then read the article.

The bloke wasn't complaining about a load of 4 days old rotting fish, but complaining that the quayside smelt like,well a quayside. like ALL commercial fishing quays in the world smell like.

Its nothing to do with whether the fish are fresh or not- the smell is ingrained into the the very concrete of the quay. It can't be removed for anyone.

The bloke in the article was retarded, and the habourmaster should have told him to fk off.

[Zod]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

Its nothing to do with whether the fish are fresh or not- the smell is ingrained into the the very concrete of the quay. It can't be removed for anyone.

This is true. One of the investment banks was planning to redevelop Old Billingsgate as its new swanky riverside HQ in the late 80s, but it proved impossible to get rid of the smell of fish.

[m8rky]

I am speechless.I suggest a trip to Selsey, East beach,for his next Holiday.

[PhillipM]

m8rky said:

I am speechless.I suggest a trip to Selsey, East beach,for his next Holiday.

I suggest a long walk off a short pier tbh.

[carreauchompeur]

This reminds me of a past holiday to Cornwall with a lass I went out with, who owned 2 black Labs. Walking down past an empty harbour- So a large unguarded drop to the sea.

Smell something fishy- At the precise point the 2 Labs do. Some rotting fish in some nets behind a pallet. Whoomp- Both dogs run in and eat up. Go and grab them, retching from the smell. Dog 1, Alfie, runs off. Dog 2, Bess, throws up. Which wouldn't normally be a problem, but she's a dog with epilepsy. And the trigger?

Yep, throwing up. Bess runs off in a bit of a panic towards the harbour wall, I literally rugby tackle her to prevent her falling off. Major fit, during which she pisses all over herself, and me. Carried back to car.

We never did get that romantic meal that evening

[m8rky]

PhillipM said:

m8rky said:

I am speechless.I suggest a trip to Selsey, East beach,for his next Holiday.

I suggest a long walk off a short pier tbh.

Good suggestion,perhaps not Selsey then as the lifeboat is too close...

[king arthur]

There are some right berks around aren't there.

[Pothole]

Zod said:

PugwasHDJ80 said:

Its nothing to do with whether the fish are fresh or not- the smell is ingrained into the the very concrete of the quay. It can't be removed for anyone.

This is true. One of the investment banks was planning to redevelop Old Billingsgate as its new swanky riverside HQ in the late 80s, but it proved impossible to get rid of the smell of fish.

rubbish. It's used for corporate events now and there is no fish smell.

[PugwasHDJ80]

Pothole said:

ubbish. It's used for corporate events now and there is no fish smell.

bet they didn't get rid of it- iirc its been hermetically sealed- they had the same problem with a building in Dublin too.

[stuttgartmetal]

Wasn't followed up with a minibus full of blind lesbians falling in the harbour was it?

[carreauchompeur]

stuttgartmetal said:

Wasn't followed up with a minibus full of blind lesbians falling in the harbour was it?

That's an amusing mental image...

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Asterix said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/8743065/Tourist-...

the article said:

“My children were quite distressed by it. These people should be a bit more considerate to the holidaymakers."

Never taken his kid's fishing then I take it??

Christ, he goes to a place where they offload dead fish and complained about the dead fish?

That's like going to an abattoir and complaining about the dead animals.

ffs, get a life! oh and some common sense, guts, feck it, just ps off you bloody wierdo!

[Zod]

Pothole said:

Zod said:

PugwasHDJ80 said:

Its nothing to do with whether the fish are fresh or not- the smell is ingrained into the the very concrete of the quay. It can't be removed for anyone.

This is true. One of the investment banks was planning to redevelop Old Billingsgate as its new swanky riverside HQ in the late 80s, but it proved impossible to get rid of the smell of fish.

rubbish. It's used for corporate events now and there is no fish smell.

How long is it since the late 80s? I know it doesn't smell any more; we had our Christmas party there a few years ago. Funnily enough, CSFB (as it then was) wasn't prepared to wait a decade or more for the smell to dissipate.

Don't be so ready with the cry of "rubbish".