Escaping the cod in the North Sea - Rockall update from the Reliance III

Update from Reliance III via satellite link:- now with her gear in the water south west of the Rock!

Twin rig trawls streaming away from the stern of the boat

"Well after steaming near 62 hours and covering 460 miles in some pretty crap weather that's finally gotten my fishing gear shot 50miles sw of Rockall.  In all that time steaming I pass 1 Scottish fishing boat and 16 foreign fishing boats. 
If anything its not the fish that's going extinct is fishermen. 
Anyway its a great day at Rockall flat calm and light winds and you dont get many days like this out here so we will enjoy our day fishing and heres hoping we nail some fish"........jc

You dinna get a lot of Cod out at Rockall but when you do there all this size,we call them Bull Cod..
Will get a couple Cod steaks out of him for our supper tonight.....jc

 You would think that catching a cod this size might just put a smile on the skipper's face - but look at the consequences!

• Robert James Scally Heeds 'ats fit we also called them used to love a haul of heeds now we all this leasing there is no enjoyment in seeing them

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  Realfishfight SOFC ats something on the west coast and oot here y dinna have to worry about with cod..1.5% bycatch for cod so for every say 6of that big cod you have to have arun 100boxs of other fish to meet your legal bycatch,whiting the same 1.5% bycatch....jc