Feeding Fish

[GAFYM]

Was just watching on TV the Dolphin that was bitten by the Shark and noticed the girl feeding Whiting to a younger one. I do not know how much a Dolphin eats per day (or any of the other fishy captives) but taken over a year, it must come to quite a lot.
What species do they feed them?
Where do they get them from. Trawlers?
If so, where caught?
Are they all legal size?
Or are they exempt?

Just wondering

Cheers

[Noelm]

they are indeed caught (usually) by Trawlers, they are "Red Spot" Whiting and are quite small, but they also use a variety of food, from Yellowtail, to Slimies and Pilchards and a host of other stuff, I guess in some sort of way it is like Fish Farms, it would seem that they use more food to raise a Fish to Market size, than the weight of the Fish, seems sort of odd huh? but the high return on some species makes it all worth while, but at what cost, half an Ocean of Pilchards to get 1 large Tuna, is it worth it environmentaly?

[honda900]

GAFYM,

The moreton bay dolphins are extremely well fed, you sit out at harries and soon as you start catching undersize squire, they are straight to the side of your boat, they obviously dont like to work to hard, they wait till you put the little squire back in the water , then NAIL EM , they dont miss a trick, snapper only, throw back a dirty old bream, they couldnt care less, throw em some pilchards or dead bait and they wont touch it..

Interesting to watch, been trying to throw the little blokes back over the other side of the boat but the dolphins are too cunning, you will just see a white flash in the water going under the boat.

If your catching fish out there they will stay with you for at least a couple of hours and maybe knock of 20-30 fish in that time.

Regards
Honda