Birds Eye fish fingers

[Livid]

Just happened to glance at the ingredients in these today and it says 'Pollock (49%)', now was just wondering, is that the same fish as our humble 'Pollack', i know i always was confused about how to spell it, this isn't helping. :g: I've never tasted Pollack before, at least i thought i hadn't before i read that. :blink:

[richierobins]

Either spelling is correct.

[cupboardlad]

:unsure: yup , and they are closing the factory down in the north east too :uhuh:
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cuberd

[Jamie Donnelly]

how the hell do they catch pollock??

dont they mainly live in wreaks and the shore??

Jamie

[Davy Holt]

Hiya,

the Pollock is not our Pollack(Pollachius pollachius)but normally Alaska Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) or Norwegian Pollock (Theragra finnmarchica)

Our Pollack is spelt Pollack as we don't get any of the Pollock species in the UK and just to confuse things a bit more the Pollock that is caught off the East coast of the states is in fact our Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

You confused now :D

[sharpshooter]

how the hell do they catch pollock??

dont they mainly live in wreaks and the shore??

Jamie

Jamie,
Yup, youre right they live mainly over wrecks and high rocky ground.
Fishermen use gill nets, with lots of weights attatched to either end to pin the net hard over the top of the wreck.
Getting the net back can prove a bit more difficult as it often get caught down in the wreck.
I have heard of massive catches of pollack off the wrecks down this way in years gone past. Over 2,000stone of fish in 200m of net!!! (thats 12,500kg of fish)
Due to over fishing, the majority of wrecks are not only fished out, but plastered in old fishing gear which has been lost.
The french fishermen use semi-pelagic / pelagic trawls which, with all the latest trawl monitoring gear can be towed right over the top of the wrecks.
Over 95% of the pollack caught here in the SW is exported to france were they love the stuff. Market price over there is 3X UK prices.

SS

[robq]

I work at birds eye in hull and am out of a good job soon, Ah weel all good things come to and end. Anyway I can confirm that it is alaskan pollock that we use in some of our products, which I believe are caught in more open waters than our native pollack.

[flattiefanatic]

how the hell do they catch pollock??

dont they mainly live in wreaks and the shore??

Jamie

Rock hopping gear is a horrible invention.

[Tozer]

Just did a google images search for 'alaskan pollock' and 'alaskan pollack'.

They are like a genric member of the cod family, fins of a haddock, kinda of like a coalie/pollack, but similar to a cod (immature one mostly :blink: ).

Not what I was expecting.