This is a great video! It’s great to see our current commercial fishermen out making a living, it’s such a big part of Ontario’s small town history and culture that gets ignored to often unfortunately
I am amazed at all the negative comments here. Commercial fishing is regulated. They aren’t going to over harvest. I’ll bet most of the negative comment writers are the first ones to drove an hour to buy a perch dinner at a the Erie Beach in Port Dover. So you guys are telling me you never eat fish? Are you all vegetarians? How do you think that haddock or halibut got into the grocery store freezer? How did your favourite restaurant get that plate of calamari? They were all harvested by fishermen. If you want to complain then look towards the Chinese fishing trawlers that don’t follow regs.
As a walleye fishermen it is bullshit trying to navagate around those nets . They should not be commercial fishing this lake they are going to bleed it dry of walleye and perch!!!
Those specific nets sit on the bottom of the lake there's nothing to navigate and is very regulated by the ministry and also pay alot of money for licensing and quotas
Used to fish for yellow perch when I was a boy growing up in western Washington in the 70s there is the lake in Skagit County Big Lake huge yellow perch back in the day I called them halibut of the lake yum yum
i hate Commercial fishing every year the fishing is worst and worst low perch population at port burwell it feels like from these guys taking all of them 5 years ago i would get my limit at lake erie i can barly get half that now
@Lynda yea i get nothing now at port burwell and port bruce. Evan going on a boat 5 perch lol 5 or 6 years ago you would have your limit in 4 hours now i just go for catfish in port burwell because Theres just no point wasting $30 of gas to get 2 or 5 perch i would go for walleye i really don't like the taste of them tho then you see these Commercial boats come in with 1000s of perch puting out nets i can't call that real fishing sorry for the late response i was gone for a year
SORRY, I don't think the great lakes need to be Commercially fished ! I lived in Michigan for 38 years and didn't know that they were doing that! Water ways and woods are for sportsman, not Walmart!
Not too long ago ohio sport fisherman and commercial fisherman easily shared the same waters with all being successful. It was that way for years until recently. I think some of it is contributed to the record walleye population but either way I hope it bounces back with the help of regulations whatever that may be
FISHERMEN'S prayer- God grant that I may live to fish until my dying day, and when the final cast is made and life has slipped away, I pray that God's great landing net will catch me in its sweep, and in his mercy, God will judge me big enough to keep. FISHING IS A WAY OF LIFE!!!
The natives have already decimated lake nippising, and continue too. They are moving to other locations to continue decimating the northern waters. Everything that touches a gill net is a dead fish.
Yes they are making a living, BUT, a lot more people make a living off perch fisherman. In Ohio our DNR by far favors the perch netters over sport fishing. They just increased the amount the netters are allowed to keep and the sports fisherman is lucky to catch a handful. In the future when their are no perch the DNR will come up with some phony baloney excuses why and not one of them will be the netters.
In the Michigan waters we never had a problem getting our 50 man limit per person. Since they have upped the limit both in Ohio & Canadian waters for perch the sports fishing for perch in 2019 has been pretty much non existant along with the huge number of walleyes out there now eating the perch. They need to cut way back on the commercial perch for both Ohio & Canada & Ohio needs to do something about the algae bloom. It is killing the lake.
perch fishing really sucks this year off of walnut, I see a ton of nets out there and suspect their taking all the good size perch and leaving us with the 6 to 9 inchers. They need to torpedo them boats.
Nice looking boat like the offloading setup!!!! Can't say I have ever picked fish like that.... always had a Picking table attached to the lifter and running either across the beam or down the middle(ish) of the boat!!! but then again never have been on a boat lifting perch nets just trout, whitefish, Herring, Chubs.... Reading some of the comments below asserts the knowledge of HOW clueless people can be!!! Keep up the hard work people's bellies are relying on industries like this so they can go to a store and purchase something to cook for a meal!!!
100 lb boxes (less ice) is standard measure for Lake Erie catch. Some things you may not know: The perch has to be alive in the net or is discarded. Occasionally, all the fish in the net are discarded, because a current reversal killed them all. Many other fish are caught in a gillnet, sm bass, sheepheads, white perch & white bass...and occasionally a sturgeon too. These are discarded if there is no market...dead or alive.
You really come off as someone who has no experience in the industry, you read a few things, had a few sport-fishing buddies tell you stories and then except it as truth. "Some things you may not know: The perch has to be alive in the net or is discarded. Occasionally, all the fish in the net are discarded, because a current reversal killed them all" What were you toking when you came up with this bullshit?
couldn't watch ...unbelievable...one man could fish for 20 years n not accumulate what the do on a daily basis ..hope you guys don't like ice fishing perch much cuz after a while of that it'll be done n over with thing of the past ..smh..disgusting...worst part is a lot of that will go ground up into fish sticks lol ..that's where 85% of them go when you sell them to bait stores
Why is sport harvest so much preferred over commercial harvest? Our restaurants and grocers need perch too to feed people who want to eat it. It is always more economical to purchase fish at a grocery store than to catch them by hook and line (though admittedly not as fun). I agree that the resource needs management, but some people seem to have the attitude that only hook and line fishing matters.
Makes me sick. The Great Lakes are too small for commercial fishing. The sportsmen put way more money in the economy than commercial fishing. Can't catch perch like you used too.
Lol so many people in here think feelings are facts, fact is erie has never been better, and a regulated commercial catch doesnt hurt a thing, if anything it helps.
There is more & more of these commercial fishing nets being placed on Erie for Walleye & Perch. They will ruin it if not mandated only a few are allowed. If they keep it up & keep expanding the fishery will be scarce. I can only hope they have learned from previous places where it has happened.
@ Dominic.... Totally agree.... over here in Pennsylvania gill nets were banned in Lake Erie but the commercial netters are placing large box nets in our prime spots (because it's their right to make a profit) which us anglers are not allowed to enter. They make the money and we pay through the nose for the "privilege" to fish for the "left overs". Corporate greed has taken over every nook and cranny of our lives.
I'm not sure how much of it is greed , people demand a certain quantity of fish and these commercial Fisherman make a living providing it. At least we have governments agencies trying to make sure it's done sustainably
same i hate them as well every year the fishing is worst and worst low perch population at port burwell it feels like from these guys taking all of them 5 years ago i would get my limit at lake erie i can barly get half that now
@@GrahamWhatmough I'm just now starting to research commercial fishing, but to say government agencies are overseeing things gives me NO confidence that things are being done right. Government agencies have been mismanaging things for centuries. As sport fishermen, we do spend a lot of money on licensing to maintain the habitat. I wonder the ratio of license dollars sport to commercial and the harvest ratio. I do know Lake Erie sport fishing isn't what it was 4 decades ago and wonder what the main contributing factors are.
Looks like a nice place to work rather than the fish farm i worked on for a short bit. The work was doable but the smell from morts is something else. Some fat perch you're hauling in.
Did not have a good perch catch in 2017...walleyes were small 14-16" typ...lots of sheepheads and white perch. I think we are running out of catchable fish.
My husband died commercial fishing not too long ago, I'm sorry the 'price' is too high, but I'd pay ANY PRICE to have him back. What you don't know is we've been paid the same prices for our fish for 20 years, so who do you think is getting rich.???? Not us! Go ahead and eat shit fed farm raised tilapia and other shit fish versus wild caught local seafood...have at it. (The prices you see on shows like wicked tuna are BS it's all for the show) go catch your own fish then...
Cool video, but can someone please tell me why Great Lakes commercial fishing boats are the ugliest boats on earth? Compare them to Maine lobster boats, Chesapeake Bay buyboats, Bearing Sea crabbers, pretty much any other commercial fishing boat. The Great Lakes boats are the ugliest times 10!
Mark White I like Maine lobster boats. Big open cockpit to pull pots, pour boat drinks. I’d rather work the classic Lake Erie fish tug to haul perch, whitefish thru December: bow deck spray hood, sealed wheelhouse, full cabin covering my net lifter in snow and ice. Been that way for a hundred years. Harvest fish on the Great Lakes in a warm workroom, not braving an assault on Everest. Donald Forrest
Wow this video is unbelievable.. i cant believe whats going on here its disgusting and appalling! It makes me want to puke up fish guts! Shame on you! I mean who in there right mind listens to this god forsaken music!?
Commercial fishing of the perch in NEO is BS. Tell you why, Ohioans tax dollars created the perch population. For. Our. Enjoyment. Not for a profiteering out of town guy. Countless beautiful autumn day's and nights have been had by families fishing for perch. And, an equal amount of dinners.
Not something to be proud of! Need bought out! Plenty of other work out there! The excuse of this is how we make a living and feed our families is no longer valid. Sorry
This is a great video! It’s great to see our current commercial fishermen out making a living, it’s such a big part of Ontario’s small town history and culture that gets ignored to often unfortunately
I am amazed at all the negative comments here. Commercial fishing is regulated. They aren’t going to over harvest. I’ll bet most of the negative comment writers are the first ones to drove an hour to buy a perch dinner at a the Erie Beach in Port Dover. So you guys are telling me you never eat fish? Are you all vegetarians? How do you think that haddock or halibut got into the grocery store freezer? How did your favourite restaurant get that plate of calamari? They were all harvested by fishermen. If you want to complain then look towards the Chinese fishing trawlers that don’t follow regs.
Nothing better than a huge plate perch mmmmmm I love perch better than any other fish
As a walleye fishermen it is bullshit trying to navagate around those nets . They should not be commercial fishing this lake they are going to bleed it dry of walleye and perch!!!
Those specific nets sit on the bottom of the lake there's nothing to navigate and is very regulated by the ministry and also pay alot of money for licensing and quotas
Used to fish for yellow perch when I was a boy growing up in western Washington in the 70s there is the lake in Skagit County Big Lake huge yellow perch back in the day I called them halibut of the lake yum yum
Turn the volume ALL the way down and its a good video. Cheers
i hate Commercial fishing every year the fishing is worst and worst low perch population at port burwell it feels like from these guys taking all of them 5 years ago i would get my limit at lake erie i can barly get half that now
we haven't caught any at port bruce been skunked every time we go I agree they destroyed it for every one
@Lynda yea i get nothing now at port burwell and port bruce. Evan going on a boat 5 perch lol 5 or 6 years ago you would have your limit in 4 hours now i just go for catfish in port burwell because Theres just no point wasting $30 of gas to get 2 or 5 perch i would go for walleye i really don't like the taste of them tho then you see these Commercial boats come in with 1000s of perch puting out nets i can't call that real fishing sorry for the late response i was gone for a year
Thou guys call this "commercial fishing"? Lmao
This Video should go viral and shut down half of them, atleast.
Seems like a you problem
great video, glad for volume control
SORRY, I don't think the great lakes need to be Commercially fished ! I lived in Michigan for 38 years and didn't know that they were doing that! Water ways and woods are for sportsman, not Walmart!
I agree 100%
Not too long ago ohio sport fisherman and commercial fisherman easily shared the same waters with all being successful. It was that way for years until recently. I think some of it is contributed to the record walleye population but either way I hope it bounces back with the help of regulations whatever that may be
NEED THEM SCOOPING UP ASAIN CARP IN
ILLINOIS ❗❗
That's not how you spell Asian
FISHERMEN'S prayer-
God grant that I may live to fish until my dying day, and when the final cast is made and life has slipped away, I pray that God's great landing net will catch me in its sweep, and in his mercy, God will judge me big enough to keep.
FISHING IS A WAY OF LIFE!!!
The natives have already decimated lake nippising, and continue too. They are moving to other locations to continue decimating the northern waters.
Everything that touches a gill net is a dead fish.
Where’s your ultra light rod and minnow bucket😂
last time out of fort Erie I had to work for my perch....10 perch, lol
Yes they are making a living, BUT, a lot more people make a living off perch fisherman. In Ohio our DNR by far favors the perch netters over sport fishing. They just increased the amount the netters are allowed to keep and the sports fisherman is lucky to catch a handful. In the future when their are no perch the DNR will come up with some phony baloney excuses why and not one of them will be the netters.
In the Michigan waters we never had a problem getting our 50 man limit per person. Since they have upped the limit both in Ohio & Canadian waters for perch the sports fishing for perch in 2019 has been pretty much non existant along with the huge number of walleyes out there now eating the perch. They need to cut way back on the commercial perch for both Ohio & Canada & Ohio needs to do something about the algae bloom. It is killing the lake.
If a sport fisherman can’t go get a limit of perch there maybe you should buy it from the fisherman.
perch fishing really sucks this year off of walnut, I see a ton of nets out there and suspect their taking all the good size perch and leaving us with the 6 to 9 inchers. They need to torpedo them boats.
You could go where they can't.
this is why when you going fishing for peach it is so difficult .
Peach isn't even supposed to be in Lake Erie so really the peach fishers are just helping return the lake to it's natural state
Your a idiot
wtf perch are native to the great lakes and all lakes in north America
@@-BUFFALOMan We're going to need a bigger boat to shake this tree :)
Probably more peaches than perch in Lake Erie.
Nice looking boat like the offloading setup!!!! Can't say I have ever picked fish like that.... always had a Picking table attached to the lifter and running either across the beam or down the middle(ish) of the boat!!! but then again never have been on a boat lifting perch nets just trout, whitefish, Herring, Chubs.... Reading some of the comments below asserts the knowledge of HOW clueless people can be!!! Keep up the hard work people's bellies are relying on industries like this so they can go to a store and purchase something to cook for a meal!!!
Interesting video, but the music sucks and is not needed.
sure the music is needed, without it I wouldnt make the video
Agreed shit music made this video even more shit
@@skatemetal5062 Let's see your video, Mr Expert
@@GrahamWhatmough Don't listen to theses yahoo,s music is awesome thanks for the great video
The music is the point of the video the fishing is just the music video lol
Taking the resources and not putting it back into the system.
This comment needs more likes 👍 💯💯
Id love to go spend a day doing this
Whats the largest perch you have seen?
And now you can hardly catch a Lake Erie perch.
100 lb boxes (less ice) is standard measure for Lake Erie catch. Some things you may not know: The perch has to be alive in the net or is discarded. Occasionally, all the fish in the net are discarded, because a current reversal killed them all. Many other fish are caught in a gillnet, sm bass, sheepheads, white perch & white bass...and occasionally a sturgeon too. These are discarded if there is no market...dead or alive.
You really come off as someone who has no experience in the industry, you read a few things, had a few sport-fishing buddies tell you stories and then except it as truth. "Some things you may not know: The perch has to be alive in the net or is discarded. Occasionally, all the fish in the net are discarded, because a current reversal killed them all" What were you toking when you came up with this bullshit?
They only set the nets out so long that way the fish can only be dead for so long and no waste lol
My god that music is absolutely horrible.
couldn't watch ...unbelievable...one man could fish for 20 years n not accumulate what the do on a daily basis ..hope you guys don't like ice fishing perch much cuz after a while of that it'll be done n over with thing of the past ..smh..disgusting...worst part is a lot of that will go ground up into fish sticks lol ..that's where 85% of them go when you sell them to bait stores
Why is sport harvest so much preferred over commercial harvest? Our restaurants and grocers need perch too to feed people who want to eat it. It is always more economical to purchase fish at a grocery store than to catch them by hook and line (though admittedly not as fun). I agree that the resource needs management, but some people seem to have the attitude that only hook and line fishing matters.
Anglers can often successfully release fish. There is a reason those boats get dogged by flocks of gulls.
Only hook and line does matter......Nobody can just go out and rape like they do.....Talk about nepotism!
terrible for the locals
Makes me sick. The Great Lakes are too small for commercial fishing. The sportsmen put way more money in the economy than commercial fishing. Can't catch perch like you used too.
great video man!
Thanks, I had a lot of fun making it. They're a great group of guys
This is not real fishing real fishing is pole line lure/bait
Amen 💯 💯 💯
It does say commercial perch fishing
Not sure what your talking about , I’ve been slaying 13” ers at Burwell all year .
Not in NY - Net MARKED trout show up in the Niagara River !
That's a fact I live in upstate newyork myself
That’s a boat 😂😂
it's a water tractor buddy lol
that was some real shitty noise!
Lol so many people in here think feelings are facts, fact is erie has never been better, and a regulated commercial catch doesnt hurt a thing, if anything it helps.
Lol are you dumb? The perch population is the worst it’s ever been on Erie...
@@bilek98 says who?
@@adventurefishing3190 look it up, walleye are thriving, perch are diminishing mainly due to climate change
@@bilek98 climate change? Lol
@@adventurefishing3190 yup mild winters,food source...
I know it's a way of making an income but, it's upsetting to see people harvesting fish like this.
This is disgusting it’s ruining the population and the fishery😡😡this needs to end!
This should be illegal, ruining our perch fishing on Erie. Pretty soon there are going to be none left.
fishingUSA 1 yep then they will go after another species and then another one until it becomes a barren wasteland
Yeah you guys having crying that same bullshit for over 50 years.
The epitome of why we can't have nice things 💯💯💔🐟💔💯💯
Port Stanley!!!
There is more & more of these commercial fishing nets being placed on Erie for Walleye & Perch. They will ruin it if not mandated only a few are allowed. If they keep it up & keep expanding the fishery will be scarce. I can only hope they have learned from previous places where it has happened.
I hate these guys they ruin it for us anglers
@ Dominic.... Totally agree.... over here in Pennsylvania gill nets were banned in Lake Erie but the commercial netters are placing large box nets in our prime spots (because it's their right to make a profit) which us anglers are not allowed to enter. They make the money and we pay through the nose for the "privilege" to fish for the "left overs". Corporate greed has taken over every nook and cranny of our lives.
I'm not sure how much of it is greed , people demand a certain quantity of fish and these commercial Fisherman make a living providing it. At least we have governments agencies trying to make sure it's done sustainably
same i hate them as well every year the fishing is worst and worst low perch population at port burwell it feels like from these guys taking all of them 5 years ago i would get my limit at lake erie i can barly get half that now
@@GrahamWhatmough I'm just now starting to research commercial fishing, but to say government agencies are overseeing things gives me NO confidence that things are being done right. Government agencies have been mismanaging things for centuries. As sport fishermen, we do spend a lot of money on licensing to maintain the habitat. I wonder the ratio of license dollars sport to commercial and the harvest ratio. I do know Lake Erie sport fishing isn't what it was 4 decades ago and wonder what the main contributing factors are.
Central basin is 10 fish why bother? Perch jumps to $20 a pound but this is ok.
Looks like a nice place to work rather than the fish farm i worked on for a short bit. The work was doable but the smell from morts is something else. Some fat perch you're hauling in.
Disgusting.. shit should be illegal
Did not have a good perch catch in 2017...walleyes were small 14-16" typ...lots of sheepheads and white perch. I think we are running out of catchable fish.
Commercial Fishermen & farmers feed us!!!!!
Sara Beth no they feed their wallets
not these guys the cost of local fish is very expensive and you find it mainly in restaurants not in many local markets
My rod feeds me who buys fish at a store
Make fish farms then.
My husband died commercial fishing not too long ago, I'm sorry the 'price' is too high, but I'd pay ANY PRICE to have him back. What you don't know is we've been paid the same prices for our fish for 20 years, so who do you think is getting rich.???? Not us! Go ahead and eat shit fed farm raised tilapia and other shit fish versus wild caught local seafood...have at it. (The prices you see on shows like wicked tuna are BS it's all for the show) go catch your own fish then...
Why would you play a crappy country song
Anyone play that f****** song in my boat be going overboard with an anchor around their ankles
Crappy song to go with the crappy video
These are not fisherman, they are hijacking all the perch for their own gain
You might want to look up the definition of 'fisherman'
Leave the perch for the recreational use you'll get more money later
I cant believe its legal makes me want to puke
Cool video, but can someone please tell me why Great Lakes commercial fishing boats are the ugliest boats on earth? Compare them to Maine lobster boats, Chesapeake Bay buyboats, Bearing Sea crabbers, pretty much any other commercial fishing boat. The Great Lakes boats are the ugliest times 10!
Would you like to work in 38 degree weather with rain and strong winds inside an enclosed boat or out in the weather?
Mark White
I like Maine lobster boats. Big open cockpit to pull pots, pour boat drinks.
I’d rather work the classic Lake Erie fish tug to haul perch, whitefish thru December: bow deck spray hood, sealed wheelhouse, full cabin covering my net lifter in snow and ice. Been that way for a hundred years. Harvest fish on the Great Lakes in a warm workroom, not braving an assault on Everest. Donald Forrest
We fish freshwater, different setups
waste of resources! Should be banned!
They should drain the lake and get it over with. Lol
Bad ass
Wow this video is unbelievable.. i cant believe whats going on here its disgusting and appalling! It makes me want to puke up fish guts! Shame on you! I mean who in there right mind listens to this god forsaken music!?
Fishing is an dangerous Job, at least what I know like each year, 200 people died when doing this job for real.
Those are strange looking boats.
Fishing license fees going into the pockets of commercial fisherman's wallets! Is their a limit of 25 perch for commercial fisherman?
I pass on the music. YUK!
Couldn't stand the Luke Bryan music sorry
Commercial fishing of the perch in NEO is BS. Tell you why, Ohioans tax dollars created the perch population. For. Our. Enjoyment. Not for a profiteering out of town guy. Countless beautiful autumn day's and nights have been had by families fishing for perch. And, an equal amount of dinners.
Wow wtf
Thank you
Graham Whatmough how much perch will you guys usually pull out in a season ?
I'm just a guy with a camera, That's the only time that I've ever been on a fishing boat
Ughhhh
Bs you guys still get away with this
Not something to be proud of! Need bought out! Plenty of other work out there! The excuse of this is how we make a living and feed our families is no longer valid. Sorry