Sentences with phrase «of pilchards»

The festival celebrates the man who, according to legend, rescued the town from famine by braving stormy seas to land an especially large haul of pilchards.

FROZEN pilchards imported into Australia to feed caged tuna may have carried a virus which killed millions of pilchards.

A virus has been found in the tissue of pilchards imported from California, and in the gills of many of the dead pilchards.

Last year, 6000 tonnes of pilchards were imported from Chile, Japan, Ireland and California to feed to tuna being fattened in cages at Port Lincoln in South Australia.

TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay — recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.

Fortunately for the Australian fishing industry, which uses pilchards primarily as bait, this die - off — amounting to an estimated 10 percent of the pilchard stock — is not expected to have a serious economic impact.

Not exact matches

On some beaches, piles of rotting fish stretched for 60 miles, and long streaks of dead pilchards could be seen at sea as well.

We've trialled everything from pilchard to rabbit to all sorts of fish, actual cat food, you name it, we've tried it, and we stick with KFC because it lasts so long in the field, and it smells so much too, so it puts an aroma out there.

During the 1960 - 1980's you could expect to see commercial salmon trollers dotted along the coast of Ucluelet on its many feed - rich banks, attracting large amounts of herring, needlefish, krill, squid, and pilchards.

Most of the time, tourists choose to use sandworms, yabbies, bloodworms and pilchards as baits, all of which are readily available across Fraser Island.

Aiding the population growth was the limitation on commercial pelagic trawling, resulting in a dramatic increase in the penguins» dietary staples of squid and shoal fish such as pilchards and anchovy.

Now, due to increased demand from tuna aquaculture operations, the price of California pilchard has shot up, making it too expensive for many Mexicans to eat.