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The Scottish Fishermen's Federation believes that the new restrictions discriminate against the UK fleet.

The Scottish National Party has also called for a renegotiation of the deal, which saw haddock quotas increase while skippers' time at sea was unchanged.

But Fisheries Minister Ross Finnie told the Scottish Parliament that there was "no going back" on the agreement.

He gave a statement to MSPs on the EU deal, which was struck in December after three days of negotiations in Brussels.

The measures are designed to conserve stocks of cod, which scientists have warned are at an all-time low.

North Sea haddock quotas will increase by 53% and fishermen will be allowed to catch 30% more prawns.

Cod and hake catches have been frozen at last year's level, while Scottish trawlers are still restricted to 15 days at sea per month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3374293.stm

Well...not quite. However, the outlook is bleak for the cod if these measures aren't enforced.

I have eaten what I was told was cod. I have even seen photographs of them. Come to think of it, I have seen dead ones at the fish market. I beleive in cod. And if you know what's good for you, you would too.

wtf's a cod??

Wow, a link and everything! Nice job, Refused!

wtf's a cod??

A fish.

I have never seen Cod, Cod has never done anything for me. How do you know it's Cod and not just some other fish? I mean, there's so many different kinds of fish, how do you know which one's the true Cod? And what did Cod ever do for me?

You uncodly heretic! May you burn in a barbecue!

You uncodly heretic! May you burn in a barbecue!

I agree wholeheartedly.

Cod sucks - Haddock rules. Don't understand how people can possibly consider cod to be better than haddock, unless they prefer really bland and tasteless fish with their chips?

Cod sucks - Haddock rules. Don't understand how people can possibly consider cod to be better than haddock, unless they prefer really bland and tasteless fish with their chips?


The clue is that they eat it with chips... ;)

You uncodly heretic! May you burn in a barbecue!

That's what's wrong with you "cod" people. You're always telling the rest of us that we'll suffer eternally at a barbecue if we disagree with you. What about the history of Cod related oppression - i.e. inquisition/crusades?

Cod hates shrimp!

I am not sure if cod exist or not.

Cod hates shrimp!
You always have to beat me to that.

Ask a Newfie, Cod does exist but it gets harder and harder to make a living off it

The clue is that they eat it with chips... ;)

Silence. Haddock and chips from a northen fish and chip shop where they actually keep the oil hot and use beef dripping not crappy vegetable oil is excellent. Though southern cod and chips are horrible.

Exactly! Who wants fishy tasteing fish. Haddock? Eww. You Brits need to start eating farm raised catfish. White meat and no fishy taste or smell.

Ooops sorry, Though the US produces millions of tons of this fish every year, (and it's cheap compared to cod or haddock) you can't buy it because it's all grown with geneticly modified feed. So instead you'll fish the oceans bare.

Of course if you were allowed to import American feed grain you wouldn't have to import Egyptian garbage that you fed to your pigs and caused the hoof and mouth epidemic of 2000. And you wouldn't have been tempted to feed cows ground up cows that caused the Mad Cow epidemic.

But that's OK, tundle off to Tesco now and buy some disgusting garbage raised sausages.

I haven't bought or, indeed, eaten any meat or fish in years.

http://www.gdonline.com.au/murraycod/troutcod2fishshow.jpg

Proof they do

http://www.gdonline.com.au/murraycod/troutcod2fishshow.jpg

Proof they do

That's not cod, that's a very naughty fish.

Catfish is better than cod. So is mai-mai and salmon. Though I must admit I was fooled by the title at first; I thought it said God, and then I read Cod and I'm like, "what the hell?"

Though I must admit I was fooled by the title at first; I thought it said God, and then I read Cod and I'm like, "what the hell?"

My job here is done.

Cod can't exist. I mean, if they did, why don't they start performing miracles like they used to?

Severe restrictions must be imposed on cod fishing, even if short term prices go up, or in 15 years, the species will be extinct. Now, this comes from me, a Portuguese. Cod is like my nations favorite fish, yet we must all bear with the consequences of over fishing. So yea for though quotas!

I believe that cod HATES you all!!!! :upyours:


No offense, of course.

wtf's a cod??

its a fish - you can tell it apart from the others cos it moves in mysterious ways.

I live in Victoria, Australia. In the Murray River we have Murray cod, and damn thay taste good. They can grow huge as well, like 100's of pounds

Be careful, lest in you incur the wrath of Cod.

(And there goes yet another silly pun...)

Exactly! Who wants fishy tasteing fish. Haddock? Eww. You Brits need to start eating farm raised catfish. White meat and no fishy taste or smell.

Ooops sorry, Though the US produces millions of tons of this fish every year, (and it's cheap compared to cod or haddock) you can't buy it because it's all grown with geneticly modified feed. So instead you'll fish the oceans bare.

Of course if you were allowed to import American feed grain you wouldn't have to import Egyptian garbage that you fed to your pigs and caused the hoof and mouth epidemic of 2000. And you wouldn't have been tempted to feed cows ground up cows that caused the Mad Cow epidemic.

But that's OK, tundle off to Tesco now and buy some disgusting garbage raised sausages.
I agree with most of what you're saying. Except that there's every need to maintain the ban on American GM feed. Mmmmmmmmmm, trade wars. Tasty.

its a fish - you can tell it apart from the others cos it moves in mysterious ways.
Best gag so far.

Be careful, lest in you incur the wrath of Cod.

(And there goes yet another silly pun...)

if the universe is infinite and cod is infinite, how come the stocks are depleting?

i was watching my friend drown the other day, poor bastard, i thought to myself, there but for the grace of cod go i.

mwahahahaha

cod puns = big fun

Exactly! Who wants fishy tasteing fish. Haddock? Eww. You Brits need to start eating farm raised catfish. White meat and no fishy taste or smell.

Ooops sorry, Though the US produces millions of tons of this fish every year, (and it's cheap compared to cod or haddock) you can't buy it because it's all grown with geneticly modified feed. So instead you'll fish the oceans bare.

Of course if you were allowed to import American feed grain you wouldn't have to import Egyptian garbage that you fed to your pigs and caused the hoof and mouth epidemic of 2000. And you wouldn't have been tempted to feed cows ground up cows that caused the Mad Cow epidemic.

But that's OK, tundle off to Tesco now and buy some disgusting garbage raised sausages.
Farm raised catfish is nasty. In fact farm raised any fish is nasty. It's has a weird bland yet slimy taste to me.

Halibut has always appealed more to my sense of orality.

I chose 'im out of thousands... the others were all too flat.

Halibut has always appealed more to my sense of orality.

I chose 'im out of thousands... the others were all too flat.

your sense of orality. nice

A fish.
fan tucking-tastic


yes, the tuck phenomenon is spreading like wildfire.

If cod exist, then that explains the codpiece I have to take off before I tuck.

If cod exist, then that explains the codpiece I have to take off before I tuck.
mwuahaha, tuck has set off, and will be unstoppable!

mwuahaha, tuck has set off, and will be unstoppable!

TUCKADOODLEDOOOOO!!!

Personally the only farm raised fish I would eat is not a fish but shellfish.

Farm raised salmon, catfish taste like shit. Mussels + clams on the other hand taste the same as natural ones + are very non polluting.

Shellfish could feed the world!!!!!!

This thread topic makes me laugh everytime I look at it. Thanks Refused Party :)

Personally the only farm raised fish I would eat is not a fish but shellfish.

Farm raised salmon, catfish taste like shit. Mussels + clams on the other hand taste the same as natural ones + are very non polluting.

Shellfish could feed the world!!!!!!

Don't be so shellfish. You're ignoring the masses of people who don't live near a supply or could possibly have access to any.

Don't be so shellfish. You're ignoring the masses of people who don't live near a supply or could possibly have access to any.
Meh, we can eat grass.

Coddammit!

Coddammit!
:D

Coddammit!


Agrees

so cod isn't eternal?

colour me dissappointed

i think marilyn manson may have solved it
"cod is in the tv"

COD EXISTS FKGODDAMNIT I KNOW IT DOES

I LIVE IN THE SAME GODDAmN STATRE. drunkles sorry

Just skating through the forums when I thought I had happened upon across a inspired topic. Yet again, I have floundered onto some type of humor. It reminds me of my old girlfriend. I used to keep a percher of her in my walleye....

DAMN!!! I can't think of a good way to use "smelt"!

coddarn infidels

Just skating through the forums when I thought I had happened upon across a inspired topic. Yet again, I have floundered onto some type of humor. It reminds me of my old girlfriend. I used to keep a percher of her in my walleye....

DAMN!!! I can't think of a good way to use "smelt"!

tee hee, those puns kinda smelt ;)

Weirdos!!

....Anonymous.

Cod sucks - Haddock rules. Don't understand how people can possibly consider cod to be better than haddock, unless they prefer really bland and tasteless fish with their chips?
I do not believe in Cod and pledge my allegience to catfish

Of course Cod exists, but not just in the Christian sense. We must also remember that the Hindus revere him in the form of Fishnu.

Cod is dead, and you and I have killed him

I like this thread.

I've seen Cod. Unless it wasn't Cod.

Cod does not exist for the simple fact that Blackfish taste better.

Cod is very real. Believe in Cod and when you die you will go to Devon, don't and you will be condemned to Hull!!! :eek:

http://www.gdonline.com.au/murraycod/troutcod2fishshow.jpg

Proof they do

There you go. Now you've made Cod disappear in a puff of logic.

P.S. you beat me to it, Vaitupu, very nice :D

How can Cod love us if it continues to deny us it's presence at our table. I think something's very fishous about that kind of treatment of his followers, leaving us to flounder on our own.

wtf's a cod??
It's a nickname for the willy ... in the golden ages of yore, where when a fella was in some kind of altercation, it did well to have his family jewels supported and reinforced ... ya know, in the case that someone else got in a good kick or a torch or a sharp jab with a staff. The device that covered that area up was called the codpiece, and is the progenitor for the common cup used in various contemporary sports.
And oh yes, you'd better believe in cod. It believes in you.

*crys*
no more fish and chips

I hate fish...

In the words of Darth Vader, on Cod's [non]existance:
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Actually, Cods exist. I met some on the bus the other day. They gave me some chips and told me the meaning of food. The chips were yummie.

This thread is over a year old....

*mumbles something about fish to keep on-topic*

This thread is over a year old....

*mumbles something about fish to keep on-topic*
Its older than you, so have some respect. We stand in the presence of a relic of ages past.
If only someone other than the OP had dug it up, that would make this the greatest ever example off random necroposting.

I have often wondered about this. The existence of cod. If cod does not exist, then there is no meaning to life, no reason to live. Life is just an empty, meaningless void. Please let cod exist!

I found out that most fish and chips shops that offer Cod don’t even have real Cod. They worship a false Cod, a Cod substitute no less, and provide it to the worshippers. We must not accept this false Cod. Personally, I prefer Halibut anyways…

<puts on humourless curmudgeon hat>

This thread is at risk of trivialising an extremely serious topic. I've more or less stopped eating fish solely due to the unsustainability of most major fishing industries.

The ongoing efforts by the EU to attempt a compromise over fishing quotas are doomed as the maintenance of fishing quotas only dooms, in the long term, fish stocks, the fishing industry, and the communities that rely on both.

At present, most fish quotas only guarantee a slow lingering death for both commercial fisheries and those communities - and for an example of that, we need only look at Newfoundland. Though it would cause considerable anguish and pain for fishing communities in the short term, the only long-term chance cod has is through the EU shutting down cod fishing entirely for several years so that cod stocks can recover.

And it's not as if there are plenty of other fish in the sea. As cod declines, the fishing industry attempts to replace it with other, equally unsustainably caught, fish. Which is why the Patagonian Tooth Fish has been re-named the 'Chilean Sea Bass' for north American markets, and why the fastest-growing fish (in consumption terms) in Australia is a Vietnamese catfish.

In time, taken to the extreme, the only seafood left to catch will be plankton.

<takes off humourless curmudgeon hat>

So ask for cod, and ye shall not receive

In time, taken to the extreme, the only seafood left to catch will be plankton.


except that i believe it has been stated elsewhere that cod hates shrimp. which again leaves us questioning an existence without Cod.