Mackerelocalypse Now

[Caberfeidh]

Bobbing around the Danish Sector of the North Sea, we are surrounded by a mahoosive shoal of mackerel. Unfortunately, due to the sensitive and extremely expensive equipment we are dangling overboard, we are strictly forbidden to fish. Strange then, how fresh mackerel keep turning up at meal times....

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[PerthAlly]

Are sea temperatures warmer near an installation?

[Caberfeidh]

I shouldn't think so.... You could always jump in and find out.
I'm on a ship. We could ask the next person we keel ~ haul.

[PerthAlly]

I'll sit that one out, but thanks for the offer!

Just speculating that any residual heat from a rig might nudge sea temp up 1 or 2 deg and liven up marine soup for mackerel dinners.

[Caberfeidh]

Nah, we're not raising the temperature, but they seem to like the wash from our Dynamic Positioning propeller at the prow (or as we seafarers call it, "The Pointy End"); perhaps this concentrates tiny shrimps, plankton, etc. and makes them easier for the mackerel to feed on.

[CharlesT]

If you're just bobbing about in the water, as they say, doesn't that attract various marine life? Remember fishing for Kingfish (a rather bigger member of the mackerel family) in the West Indies and you could go for miles without a touch and come across a piece of flotsam and there they were, fighting to get on the hook! Barracuda too - complete pests - but good eating.