Cat food must be very tasty

My friend told me that people net big schools of Australian salmon in south when they run. They pile up fish on the shore, load them on to trucks with a bulldozer, and send them to a factory to make cat food. Killing fish weighing 5kg each for cat food sounds very much wasting, and I am thinking there must be a better alternative like European perch or carp for that.

Anyway, I kept one estuary salmon last week which got hooked up too deep to go back water alive. I took it home and asked my wife to cook it for dinner. I told her that people only use it for cat food, so not to expect much from it. To our surprise, it turned out to be quite tasty. No way it is something only cats eat, we thought.

We went out today and it looked like schools are still hanging around the estuary. They say fish will head to the ocean once they reach a certain size. It looks like fish are somewhere between 30 to 35 cm, and few getting quite close to 40cm now. I am wondering how big they can get and how long they will stay in a river before they disappear.

鮭とはまったく血縁関係の無いオーストラリアン・サーモンですが、食用としてはあまり人気が無いようです。しかしネコの餌にかなりの数の魚が網で獲られるそうです。それにしても、メータークラスの魚をネコの餌だけに獲るのは、なんとももったいない話です。

ところで、先週、針の掛かり所が悪くてやもなくリリースせずにキープした一匹。ネコの餌にしかならないと言われているこの魚、煮付けとなって食卓に上がったのですが、結構いけました。ネコに食わすにはもったいないです。

今日も、仕事の後に行ってきましたが、魚はまだ河口にいる様です。河口で釣れるのは４０ｃｍ位までで、そこまで成長すると、海に出て行くそうです。

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