Travels of a Fish Nut

I had a really fantastic time on the longliner. I was out with Jude, who’s doing her PhD on toothfish and we got on really well which was good! We caught a lot of toothfish and tagged eight of them. We also saw some birds I haven’t seen before and a lot of whales. It was really interesting to see how longlining works, and it was really great to see the big toothfish as it was toothfish which were the fish that got me interested in the Falklands first of all. Most of my time was spent standing outside watching the setting and hauling of the line. It is pretty cold at this time of year and when it was really bad I got to wear such cool and stylish clothes as these: I did still get to go and work with the fish occasionally. The fish were much bigger than I’m used to working with, with some reaching almost 190 cm in length. It can be quite difficult to get a sense of perspective from a photo so when we caught a lot of particularly big fish I got into the fish bin to give provide a scale. ...

I'm back. I've been back since saturday but had two enjoyable days off work so haven't had a chance to write until now. I had an amazing time and will put up a post with lots of photos in the next couple of days. I saw whales!!