Fishing Cod is messy. Cod need to be bled before they are processed. So the deck hands slit their isthmus on deck and throw them into the tanks. by the time they get to me they are covered with bits of gooey red blood and whitish bits of mashed liver. It is much easier to collect the data from a sample of cod because they are much bigger than rock sole or yellowfin sole. It is much easier to count out 30 or 40 cod than to count a basket of sole and then calculate the average weight, and it is much easier to find any by catch. Some of the flat fishes look very similar to each other and take time to sort out. During the rock sole season I might spend 2 hours in the factory for one sample, for cod I can get done in 45 min.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Pacific Cod
Fishing Cod is messy. Cod need to be bled before they are processed. So the deck hands slit their isthmus on deck and throw them into the tanks. by the time they get to me they are covered with bits of gooey red blood and whitish bits of mashed liver. It is much easier to collect the data from a sample of cod because they are much bigger than rock sole or yellowfin sole. It is much easier to count out 30 or 40 cod than to count a basket of sole and then calculate the average weight, and it is much easier to find any by catch. Some of the flat fishes look very similar to each other and take time to sort out. During the rock sole season I might spend 2 hours in the factory for one sample, for cod I can get done in 45 min.
