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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 8,674 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	22 Jan 2013 23:30
	Mackerel has been taken off 'fish to eat' list due to overfishing outside the EU. All very well catching them, but if they're overfishing - who's eating them all? They can only be frozen for so long. Another 'academic' /'quango panic? Someone trying to justify their excessive pay? An excuse to increase yet another foodstuff? How do they count fish? Do they set a metre square in the sea (held up with buoys), count the number of mackarel that pass through it and multiply by the square meterage of the sea? So many questions - and you know you won't get a straight answer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/fishy-tale-of-mackerel-mismanagement
	Researching: Henry Floyd, my g x 4 grandfather
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 899 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	23 Jan 2013 06:59
	Up home in Scotland, when I was a youngster in the 1950's, I can remember that my gran and my mum would never think of buying mackerel for us to eat. People only bought it to feed to their cats - how times have changed.
	Researching: I have given up trying to find any information on (1) Mother of George Wotherspoon - he was born 1759 in Old Monklands. (2) When James Patrick Clusker born 1890 married Mary Ellen Bryant in USA. (3) Information on Thomas Wotherspoon born 1901 in Fife, lived in the Huddersfield area in 1952. Photo is of me in the cloisters of Iona Abbey.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 4,410 Send Message	BrianW	Report	23 Jan 2013 08:41
	Probably being turned into food for farmed salmon : very inefficient and environmentally damaging.
	Researching: Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,004 Send Message	Brenda from Wales	Report	23 Jan 2013 09:11
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,004 Send Message	WHen I lived on the coast in West Wales we were inundated with Mackerel in the summer.Children caught them on a line with a bit of silver paper on . We caught about 250one day in a big net we used to have and stayed up in the night cleaning them .then we went round to a lot of pensioners giving them a food parcel! Must say we liked them,but found they were not to everyone's taste.They were very cheap to buy then before they became fashionable.
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,333 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	23 Jan 2013 11:25
	Mackerel is one of the few fish I actually like !!! Typical !!!! :-D
	Researching: All comments made by me are all mine unless otherwise stated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real life events unless otherwise stated is purely coincidental.
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 7,427 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	23 Jan 2013 13:22
	My OH - loves smoked/peppered mackerel as does son.
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 27,742 Send Message	ButtercupFields	Report	23 Jan 2013 13:36
	I haven't eaten fresh mackerel since I was in my twenties and a boyfriend used to go fishing and lay them on my doorstop every morning! :-D I do occasionally have smoked mackerel..delicious with lots of lemon juice on it!
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,620 Send Message	Janet	Report	23 Jan 2013 13:37
	Agree with James, my father told me years ago never to touch mackerel as it was a scavenger. However I tried it about ten years ago and really loved it. Hope it doesn't become scarce.-jl
	Researching: Mellors of Fulstone- Haighs of Fulstone- Haighs of Horbury -Fowlers of Sheffield -Ashton/Acomb of Keighley-Broadheads of Mearhouse-Nixons of Bradfield- Hopwood of Dewsbury and Elland-Procter/Proctors of Malham
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 7,427 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	23 Jan 2013 13:41
	Janet - my dad was a mariner and would never eat mackerel as he said so many of our family over the years were lost at sea! So I don't for the same reason.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,620 Send Message	Janet	Report	23 Jan 2013 14:04
	CofW -Its good to know that it isn't just an old wives tale. We don't live by the sea but my father was a coach driver in the late 1920's taking people to Blackpool every day perhaps that is where he got the information. -jl
	Researching: Mellors of Fulstone- Haighs of Fulstone- Haighs of Horbury -Fowlers of Sheffield -Ashton/Acomb of Keighley-Broadheads of Mearhouse-Nixons of Bradfield- Hopwood of Dewsbury and Elland-Procter/Proctors of Malham
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 1,605 Send Message	Paula+	Report	23 Jan 2013 15:06
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 1,605 Send Message	:-( I love smoked Mackerel , and make a very tasty Mackerel pate.

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