Thanks Capt Lee: glad you appreciated the video.

Thanks Brendan: glad you enjoyed it.

i sure did brother fantastic

Tell em like it is

Hello McCheese, it is locally pronounced "Hoak-ee" - Hoak as in "croak" (as in frog), and "ee" as in the letter "E": two syllables. They were initially called "Whip-tail", and were wasted/discarded by the mega-tonnes. Also known as "blue grenadier", "blue hake", "New Zealand whiptail", "whiptail" or "whiptail hake" (Macruronus novaezelandiae), being a merluccid hake of the family Merlucciidae. They actually taste quite OK (not a patch on White Wharehou or Blue Moki) and are a reasonably bland, nutritious, palatable, affordable, white fish. Us Kiwis can't afford to buy the export species (most of our commercial catch) so we eat cheap Hoki, Red Cod, Kahawai, or even imported Tilapia from Asia, or resort to battery-chicken instead of healthy fish. Our government used to have a policy of making fresh fish affordable to all Kiwis, but that was "back-in-the-day"!

Thanks for the quick response and interesting information. Which countries do the export species end up going?

I understand fish exports go to Australia, the USA, Asia and Europe: you can probably find further details online.

Diarmuid NZ I’ve been buying blue grenadier here lately and frozen fillets are cheap as $7.99 a kilo. I think I have about 8 kilos in my freezer.. the stuff I buy is labelled as Australian but you’d never know if it came from over there.

mccheeseburger01 it is 100% in fillet o fish in aus, nz and singapore

+wyle killiams The data on any non-fish bycatch is published on the Department of Conservation website - www.doc.govt.nz. Regards, D.

+dty2dty2 Can you answer to the blatant evidence of this system being abused? www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36316246

+dty2dty2 Original Document www.seaaroundus.org/doc/PageContent/OtherWPContent/Simmons+et+al+2016+-+NZ+Catch+Reconstruction+-+May+11.pdf Thanks, Wyle.

Thank you for those links Wyle: I found them both surprising and very interesting. I'm just the cameraman/editor/musician on this video and not a commercial fisherman. I hope you enjoyed the video: I enjoyed making it and was keen to share the experience with viewers - especially seeing an albino dolphin, and that eerie noise of warps snapping on the winches. Do please keep eating fish (I eat heaps - way more often than meat - as you can see from my diving and salmon videos); they are reportedly very good for the brain, and general health, as well as tasting mega (I'm having Thai-style, wild salmon curry for supper). Kind Regards, D.

wyle killiams l

yes, they get turned into crab sticks and fillet o fish at mcdonalds

@@chemtrailer6078 Hideous and immoral.

@@tuilorraine so are kinas

I just wondering if how much the crew earned for one trip

Is it nice

+Nereo Grdovic Sorry Nereo, but does 'grozno' mean 'great' as in very good, or 'gross' and is terrible? If 'gross', then was it my music, my video editing, the video resolution at fault, or are you just opposed to commercial fishing? The difference is important to me.