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Mahi Mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Marathon, Florida Keys, USA
Mahi-mahi can live up to 5 years, although they seldom exceed four. Catches average 7 to 13 kilograms (15 to 29 lb). They seldom exceed 15 kilograms (33 lb), and mahi-mahi over 18 kilograms (40 lb) are exceptional.
Mahi-mahi have compressed bodies and a single long-based dorsal fin extending from the head almost to the tail. Their caudal fins and anal fins are sharply concave. They are distinguished by dazzling colors: golden on the sides, and bright blues and greens on the sides and back. Mature males have prominent foreheads protruding well above the body proper. Females have a rounded head. Females are also usually smaller than males.
Source: Wikipedia
Peschici Italy in the Puglia region sunrise behind the trabucco
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A small fishing boat heads out to do some sustainable line fishing (thanks Hugh!) on a calm, sunrise sea.
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Lost Village Of Wharram Percy set in the Yorkshire Wolds
The deserted village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire has given today’s archaeologists more scope on medieval life in village and has also transformed our understanding of medieval image of DMV and how they worked in the landscape. Before we look at Wharram Percy in some detail it must be stressed that archaeological excavations of this type are rare for some reason and I for one can not see why more sites are not excavated since, we know that they are over 3000 medieval villages, how else are we going to understand the past if we protect every single site. However, as a landscape historian or archaeologists as I prefer, its only from documents that we are able to investigate the site drawing clues up from the past like Wharram Percy on how people lived and worked.
We know very little about people who lived their lives in the Middle Ages. The bulk of the population, the rural peasantry, were regarded as beneath serious scholarly consideration - perhaps even historically unreachable, the evidence of their lives being lost for good. Also interesting to note that the population at Wharram Percy shows people who were left handed 16 per cent, twice the modern world average. This was said to suggest a `natural' level of left-handedness in a society without social pressure to favour the right.
A study in 1997 indicated that Wharram's remote rural population might have eaten as much seafish as the citizens of York. The remains of abandon house plots and gardens and a full excavation St Martins church first recovery of a large medieval population from a cemetery fifty years ago, by Maurice Beresford and John Hurst. Numerous assumptions were nonetheless made about medieval rural life. Among them was the idea that village existence was relentlessly grim for most peasants lived out in meagre hovels at barely a subsistence level.
Another assumption was that the basic geography of rural England - a network of nucleated villages surrounded by open fields - had remained more or less fixed since early Anglo-Saxon times. New village foundations were rare, as were reorganisations and desertions. The one excavation that, above all others, transformed our understanding of this period was the work which began in 1950 at Wharram Percy, a deserted village. Wharram was then little more than a field of humps and bumps surrounding a decaying church in a remote valley about a mile from the nearest metalled road. Few scholars paid it any attention.
Medieval People at Wharram Percy were living a clean life style, as excavations showed some of the longhouses to be very clean in the inside. However, can we take this as the same for every medieval house? Why would people want to live in the dirt in their homes? I personally have noticed that some of the medieval lost villages seem to have a lot of rubbish left outside the homes. So These people where house proud. The excavations at Wharram Percy recovered numerous items of dress adornment - bronze buckles, strap ends and the like - and large numbers of coins. We learned, therefore, that the medieval countryside was not a subsistence economy but a monetary economy, in which the wealthier peasants had plenty of money to take to market to buy goods for the home.
Towards the end of the village's life in the early 16th century, houses had stone footings. Previously they were built of wood. The ephemeral nature of these timber remains, consisting of small post-holes and the delicate traces of wattle-and-daub walls, required an excavation record at an unprecedented level of detail. Every feature was mapped stone by stone, with the 3-D recording in situ of every find including pottery. Today this approach is commonplace; then it was new. Wharram's houses were cruck buildings. The walls were not structural supports, and replacement of wattle panels implies repair rather than rebuilding Wharram's timber houses, it seemed, were substantial and stood for two centuries or more.
The farmsteads at Wharram Percy dates towards the Saxon period when these farmers were settling down to farm the land and to breed animals for food and also to provide extra resources i.e. milk, hide and horn. Wharram became a nucleated `village' only around the time of the Norman Conquest, with two parallel rows of tofts and crofts flanking a street-green. During which time the village was replaned in the 13th century.
The earthworks had suggested a manorial compound at the north end of the village although, excavations revealed a second, abandoned 12th century manor house underneath a sequence of peasant houses - a complete surprise. The fourteenth century, when the population of the village decline after the Black Death, some properties were amalgamated, and a new type of courtyard farm was built alongside the older longhouses. The church of St Martins provided an opportunity not to missed by excavating the church itself, rare on any archaeological site due to many reasons, and mainly thanks to John Hurt and Maurice Beresford I have now good knowledge of what the church may have looked like and also provides me with some good evidence to say that churches in the landscape changed due to population increase. Well that's what I think.
A small timber Anglo-Saxon church (although we don't know that this was the case) was replaced in stone in the Norman period. It expanded with side aisles and a longer chancel in the 12th-13th centuries, and contracted again in the 15th century. More recently that interpretation has been replaced, or supplemented, by one based on changing liturgical requirements. Side aisles were built to accommodate newly fashionable privately endowed altars, while the extended chancel was needed for a more elaborate liturgy.
The churchyard was excavated something that I have always found interesting was the churchyard and its surrounding settlements. The churchyard at Wharram Percy had over 700 burials human remains one of the largest lay medieval skeleton assemblages available for study. Many of the findings have been unsurprising - fractures were not always well set, tooth decay was common, and so on - but other discoveries have been more intriguing.
Facts about the village
They was a Neolithic presents at Wharram Percy dating from 3,500 to 2,300 Bc. Neolithic man cleared away trees and cultivated the land as excavations shows hollows left by trees known in the trade as tree bowls The Bronze Age pottery was located on the site suggesting that the site settled by the people of this era Iron Age at Wharram dated from 700 BC to Ad 50 as two farmsteads established, with associated lines of small enclosures formed by boundary banks. Roman period at least five farmsteads in the neighbourhood by the middle of this period. Masonry reused in a corn drying kiln, tesserae and window glass found. Anglo Saxon and Vikings at least one farm survived the collapse of the Roman period. Two small huts built on the line of the main routway in the sixth century, and weapons of Scandinavian origin have been located on the site
I rebuild a nother Familiar from Dungeon Defenders: the completely Overadored Seahorse. What do you think?
The Vismarkt (Fish Market) in the Magdalena Quarter, southern Bruges, Flanders, Belgium.
At first, fish was sold on one of the Markt’s corners, but as the townspeople complained about the stench, the fishmongers were forced to move and sell their wares here. In the covered arcade (1821), specially erected for the purpose of selling fish, fresh seafish was sold, a delicacy that only the rich could afford. Today you can still buy your fresh saltwater fish here every morning from Wednesday to Saturday.
Information gained from www.visitbruges.be/en/vismarkt-fish-market
Dried-fish production has got a huge thrust as the winter is approaching in the region as well as the whole country. Thousands of labourers are passing busy times at the processing zones here to produce dried fishes which have remarkable demand among the people of Bangladesh and the foreigners.
Salt and fresh water meet in a vast Ganges Delta where the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers join the Bay of Bengal. This huge delta is the Sundarbans, the "beautiful jungle," one of the largest mangrove forests in the world. About one third of the Sundarbans is water and much of the land portion of the delta consists of silt islands or "chars". Remote Dublar Char is one of the last islands before the sea and is known for its fish. In the photo above, we see some of the fishermen who visit the island during the months of November to February to bring in the catch and dry it on the beaches. A container ship can be seen on the horizon to the right of the photo. The Sundarbans National Park encompasses over 6,500 sq mi (16,800 sq km) in India and Bangladesh. It was added UNESCO's World Heritage site list in 1987. In addition to the fish, over 250 species of birds thrive in the jungle along with threatened species such as the estuarine crocodile, the Indian python and the elusive Bengal tiger.
epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/09/dublar-char-in-the-sundarbans....
Summary Author: Stu Witmer
Fishing in the Bay of Bengal at Dublar char Island in Bangladesh. Fishing is the only profession of this island's poor people. They use microloans to buy nets, and repair boats.
I'm only a man with a chamber who's got me,
I'm taking a stand to escape what's inside me.
A monster, a monster,
I've turned into a monster,
A monster, a monster,
And it keeps getting stronger.
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Happy Halloween.
The award-winning Anstruther Fish Bar at the harbour of Anstruther, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland
Some background information:
Anstruther is a charming little fishing town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the North Sea coast about 14 kilometres (9 miles) south-southeast of the university city of St Andrews. The town comprises two settlements, Anstruther Easter and Anstruther Wester, which are divided by a stream, the Dreel Burn. With a population of more than 3,500, it is the largest community on the Firth of Forth's north-shore coastline known as the East Neuk. To the east, it merges with the village of Cellardyke.
In earlier times, Fife, where Anstruther is located, was one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and today it is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. The Pictish king list and De Situ Albanie documents of the Poppleton manuscript mention the division of the Pictish realm or Albany into seven sub-kingdoms, one being Fife. The earliest known reference to the common epithet "Kingdom of Fife" dates from only 1678, in a proposition that the term derives from the quasi-regal privileges of the Earl of Fife.
The name of Anstruther derives from Scottish Gaelic, meaning "place of one burn". Local tradition states that early in the 12th century, Alexander I of Scotland granted the lands of Anstruther to a William de Candela. However, no records survive of this original grant, and the earliest recorded lord of Anstruther was mentioned in a charter of 1225. There have been several theories as to the origin of the, possibly mythical, William, but recent research has suggested that he may have been a Norman count, whose family came from Italy to England around 1066.
In the same year, it took the intervention of Pope Honorius III to settle a teinds dispute between the monks of Dryburgh Abbey and the fishermen of Anstruther, suggesting that the fishing was sufficiently good to warrant arguing over. Sometime in the 1280s, land in Anstruther Easter was gifted to the Cistercian monks of Balmerino Abbey, and soon a first chapel was built.
In 1583, James VI of Scotland gave the town the status of a Royal Burgh with trading rights, recognizing the importance of the port, called the draucht of Anstruther. The bounds of the new Burgh were the "Silver Dyke" on the east, the low water line on the south, the Anstruther burn to the west, and the Kylrynnie march road in the north. James Melville's diary provides a graphic account of the arrival of a ship from the Spanish Armada to Anstruther. Local tradition has long held that some of the survivors remained and intermarried with the locals. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the town was home to The Beggar's Benison, a gentleman's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality".
By the 19th century, Anstruther-Easter, Anstruther-Wester, and Kilrenny were all separate royal and parliamentary boroughs. The Royal Burgh of Anstruther-Easter held tanning, shipbuilding, and fish-curing establishments, as well as a coasting trade. In the 1870s, the Board of Fisheries constructed a new harbour, which was completed by 1877. By the First World War, the community was connected to St Andrews by the North British Railway. Herring fishing remained a feature of the area until the mid-20th century when, after a record catch in 1936, the shoals mysteriously declined until the industry effectively disappeared by 1947.
However, there are still some full-time fishermen in Anstruther, who bring their haul ashore day by day, although more recreational vessels are now moored in the harbour. The town is home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum and has several fish and chips shops that offer fresh local fish. The most noted one is the Anstruther Fish Bar, which won several awards, among them the "Seafish Fish and Chips shop of the year" in 2001/2022 and 2008/2009, the "Food Awards Scotland’s Takeaway of the Year Award" in 2014, and the "Visit Scotland ‘Taste Our Best’ Award" no fewer than seven times between 2015 and 2021.
Furthermore, Anstruther is home to a golf course and Scotland's only true-scale model Solar System. The model, which shows the Sun and planets and the distances between them all at the same scale of 1 to ten thousand million, is located mostly in the town centre. It stretches almost 600 m from the Sun to Pluto. The town is popular among day trippers and overnight guests alike and we really enjoyed our three nights‘ stay there.
Five hours into a recent fishing session , which lasted fourteen hours .
Sadly the Cod were not on the feed ..!
I took this photo with my Nikon D8ooE and the AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR lens.
The two sea fishing man were fishing on a very tiny rock in the sea. It looks very dangerous for me but I think it's a peace of cake for them.
Fishermen from Bengal are spreading their catch for drying up under air and sun in traditional way. These dried sea fish (Shutki) are rich in proteins, a main source of protein for the poor people......
Digha - Mohana, Bay of Bengal, West Bengal, India
Food preservation is an effective way of saving food and preventing it from being wasted or lost. In fact, communities around the world have been employing food saving methods for centuries in order to prolong its shelf life. More:www.unep.org/wed/news/foodpreservation.asp
The theme for this year’s World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save.
Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year a third of global food production equivalent to 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, 1 in every 7 people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of 5 die daily from hunger. More: www.unep.org/wed/theme/
Think before you Eat and help Save our environment!
World Environment Day, 5 June 2013