Panen Lobster

Kisah dari Indonesia berkenaan teknik memerangkap Lobster Air Tawar - yang kita panggil di sini sebagai udang galah. Bagi yg tak faham, sila rujuk dengan Niazor. Moh kita terai kat Sg Pahang atau Sg Kuantan...

Banyak teknik-teknik yang dikembangkan dalam panen lobster air tawar ini. Dengan kita mengerti tingkah laku lobster ini maka banyak cara penangkapan yang dapat kita kembangkan.

Flow Trapping

Flow Trapping merupakan teknik yang umumnya dipakai untuk panen pada kolam besar karena dengan dengan flow trapping dapat menghemat waktu untuk menangkap lobster yang akan dipanen. Flow trapping ini biasanya dilakukan pada malam hari dengan harapan pada pagi harinya hasil tangkapan tersebut sudah dapat dipilah (sortir). Sifat lobster yang terus mencari air yang lebih segar dari air yang ada pada kolam menjadikan flow trapping ini dapat dilakukan.
Perlengkapan yang diperlukan untuk melakukan flow trapping :

1. Kotak penampung lobster yang akan di tangkap yang tingginya sekitar 30cm.

2. Papan dengan lebar sekitar 10-15cm dan panjang 50cm.

3. Aerasi

4. Selang air

Pada saat akan dilakukan flow trapping air yang ada pada kolam kita turunan hingga setinggi 2cm dan umpetan juga dikeluarkan dari kolam. Kemudian kita tempatkan kotak yang akan menjadi penampungan ini di sisi-sisi kolam. Jumlah penampung ini dapat disesuaikan dengan luas kolam. Untuk kolam ukuran 2m2 dapat ditempatkan 2 flow trapping pada kedua sisi yang berbeda. Papan peluncur itu ditempatkan pada satu sisi dengan bentuk seperti papan luncur atau biasanya disebut plosotan. Ujung papan yang menempel pada kotak tersebut harus sedikit lebih ke dalam kotak tersebut dengan tujuan bila lobster dapat terjatuh ke dalam kotak tersebut. Dalam kotak penampung tersebut kita tempatkan satu aerator untuk mencegah kekurangan oksigen di dalam kotak penampung.

Setelah kita memasang flow traping, dengan pelan-pelan air kita alirkan ke ujung papan luncur tersebut sehingga air turun mengalir ke dasar kolam melalui papan tersebut. Dengan adanya air segar atau air baru yang mengalir ke dalam kolam maka lobster yang mempunyai naluri mencari air segar akan mengikuti sumber air yang ada. Karena air dialirkan dari atas papan maka lobster akan berusaha memanjat ke sumber air tersebut. Pada saat lobster tersebut telah mencapai atas papan tersebut maka lobster ini akan jatuh ke dalam kota tersebut.

Untuk mencegah lobster tersebut kabur kembali ke kolam maka air yang ada pada kotak tersebut janganlah terlalu tinggi. Karena air terus mengalir ke dalam kolam maka lobang pembuangan air juga harus tetap terbuka untuk mencegah air penuh kembali.

Perangkap Tikus

Panen ini sebut perangkap tikus karena bentuknya mirip dengan perangkap tikus yang biasa kita lakukan di rumah kita. Namun untuk pintu perangkap ini kita ganti dengan corong seperti mulut botol dengan tujuan lobster yang masuk tidak dapat keluar kembali. Perangkap ini juga dapat dijadikan sebagai alat pemilahan dengan memilih lobang yang besarnya sesuai dengan ukuran lobster yang kita inginkan.

Sebagai umpan agar lobster masuk ke perangkap kita dapat mengunakan keong mas atau ikan yang sebelumnya telah dibakar agar aromanya dapat memancing lobster untuk memakan. Agar umpan ini dapat efektif maka lobster tersebut perlu dipuasakan 1 hari sebelumnya. Dan umpan yang ada pada perangkap tersebut harus dibuat cukup sehingga umpan yang telah dimakan masih tersedia untuk lobster yang lainnya.

Panen dengan cara perangkap tikus ini air kolam tidak perlulah dikuras atau diturunkan. Dan untuk lebih efektif, perangkap ini dapat dipasang satu untuk setiap meter persegi dan dalam selang waktu setiap jam kita dapat mengangkatnya untuk mengeluarkan lobster yang terperangkap. Namun kalau kita tidak memiliki waktu kita dapat melakukan dengan meletakkannya pada pagi hari dan dipanennya pada malam hari.

Banyak teknik yang telah dikembangkan dalam perangkap ini yang selebihnya dapat dilihat di situs http://www.terrybullard.com/CrawfishMain.html
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Shark Fishing

Jerung ditangkap dan dibunuh semata-mata kerana siripnya. Hampir selebih dari badannya akan dibuang begitu sahaja. Pembunuhan berleluasa jerung akan menyebabkan ketidakseimbangan ekologi laut. Namun itu lah hakikat kehidupan..

ECheng

Manta, Ecuador

26 June

The fisherman and traders were more frenzied today, and fish were brought in at a more rapid pace. Early in the morning, a good-sized bull shark was hauled up from a small boat, eventually fetching $350 when sold to a trader (again, most of its value is in its fins). Like yesterday, the majority of the day's catch consisted of large blue sharks, large thresher sharks, and small hammerhead sharks. A pregnant thresher was cut open, and Carlos pulled two well developed juveniles from her womb. Baby thresher sharks practice interuterine cannibalism (the larger babies eat their siblings), so a typical brood might consist only of one or two individuals. Juvenile threshers shimmer with a beautiful purple sheen, and their skin is silky soft to the touch. We were told that young threshers are a delicacy, and the two pups were sold almost immediately.

The frigate birds are getting more aggressive, and one of them actually smashed into me while swooping down for a bit of shark gut. The local children are following suit with their own version of aggressive curiosity. One little girl kept repeating "chino, chino," affirming the obvious: I look Chinese. She then switched to exclaiming, "Jackie Chan! Jackie Chan!" which was amusing for about thirty seconds, but after ten minutes I felt like bludgeoning her with one of the dead blue sharks laying at my feet. I'll bet Jackie could do that pretty easily.

I can't help but anthropomorphize the sharks that are being hauled up to the beach. Threshers always look surprised, and seem to be saying, "oh, shit! I'm dead!" through their open mouths as they gaze blankly from their huge eyes. I've always wanted to see thresher sharks and blue sharks; it's unfortunate that the first ones I'm seeing in my life are being cut up into pieces. It's not as bad as it could be, however. Most sharks that are slaughtered are killed for their fins alone, their carcasses thrown back into the ocean to rot uselessly. The shark carcasses hauled up at Manta are sold for their meat, and there are laws banning the export of shark fins, which legally can only be sold locally.

Alex tells me that ten years ago, a day's catch at Manta might be 1,000 or more sharks, whereas these days the catch seems to vary seasonally between 150 and 400 sharks a day. Combined with having to venture 50 miles or more offshore, it is pretty clear that the local shark population is dropping rapidly. While we were observing the action on the beach, I kept looking across the water at the industrial fishing boats docked at the pier and wondering what sort of catch they were delivering. This local operation is nothing compared to the large Taiwanese-funded finning vessels that are raping the oceans.

As a seafood eater, it may seem a bit hypocritical for me to even comment about marine conservation, but even those of you out there who eat seafood must admit that the practice of shark finning is extremely wasteful and unsustaineable. I recently attended a rehearsal dinner for a friend's wedding where shark fin soup was served, and I felt sick sitting there watching everyone eat them. I was even tempted to get up and leave. With over 100 million sharks killed each year (much of the activity is illegal), the ocean's top predator is dying off quickly. People tend not to care about sharks because they aren't considered to be "cute," but removing the top predator in any ecosystem is a catastrophic move. (Nevermind that the shark itself is an amazing animal so well evolved that it has barely changed in the last 400 million years!)

More pics & report at:
http://echeng.com/travel/manta/sharkfishing/

Sungai Timun Lubuk Udang Galah

Mohd Amin Jalil

aminjalil@hmetro.com.my

MAHU memancing udang galah 24 jam sambil menikmati keindahan flora dan fauna yang belum tercemar? Semuanya ini boleh diperoleh apabila anda memilih pakej memancing di Sungai Timun, Rembau, Negeri Sembilan.

Kelainan dan keseronokan dapat dirasakan jika anda memilih lokasi berkenaan kerana penganjur iaitu Persatuan Nelayan Sungai Timun (PNST) dan Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan Kampung (JKKK) Sungai Timun menyediakan kemudahan penginapan di dua chalet serba lengkap di pangkalan sungai terbabit.

Memancing udang galah pasti berbeza dengan memancing ikan. Justeru ramai kaki pancing bukan saja daripada kalangan penduduk Negeri Sembilan malah dari luar seperti Shah Alam, Kuala Lumpur dan Melaka yang tidak melepaskan peluang ke sungai itu untuk merasakan nikmat memancing udang galah.

Setiap hujung minggu dan cuti umum, dari seawal terbit matahari hingga ke lewat petang, pasti di pesisir sungai itu dipenuhi bot milik kaki pancing yang menanti penuh tekun untuk mendapatkan udang galah.Setiap kali mereka turun ke sungai itu, ia tidak pernah mengecewakan kerana jika tidak banyak pun, sekurang-kurangnya antara dua ke lima kilogram udang mampu diperoleh untuk tempoh separuh hari memancing.Malah bagi mereka yang sanggup berada lebih lama, lebih daripada 15 kilogram udang galah mampu diperolehi.

Bagaimanapun, memancing udang galah tidak sama memancing ikan kerana faktor air sungai memainkan peranan penting dan jika pada waktu itu keadaan airnya keruh, mungkin sukar mendapat lebih tetapi jika keadaan airnya jernih, kepuasan pasti terserlah. Sungai di kaki Gunung Datuk itu boleh dituju melalui jalan Seremban-Rantau-Linggi-Lubuk Cina iaitu kira-kira 85 kilometer dari bandar Seremban. Malah jalan ke sungai itu selesa serta boleh dilalui dengan kereta sehingga ke pangkalan sungai berkenaan. Sebelum turun ke sungai, kaki pancing boleh mengisi perut terlebih dulu dengan menjamu selera di gerai sedia ada di pangkalan itu dengan pelbagai jenis makanan seperti nasi lemak.

Pengerusi PNST, Alias Busu, berkata pihaknya menyediakan bot atau perahu berenjin dan jurupandu untuk kaki pancing menyewa dengan kadar yang munasabah bergantung pada tempoh memancing. Menurutnya, kaki pancing akan dibawa ke kawasan lubuk udang galah yang selalunya tidak mengecewakan mereka."Kita mempunyai banyak perahu atau bot untuk memberi perkhidmatan kepada kaki pancing. Sambil memancing mereka boleh menikmati keindahan alam semula jadi, mendengar kicauan unggas rimba dan deruan air sungai," katanya.

Walaupun sungai berkenaan sudah lama wujud, ia baru saja dikenali ramai selepas kerajaan negeri melalui Jabatan Perikanan Negeri Sembilan menjadikan kawasan itu salah satu destinasi pelancongan dengan aktiviti memancing udang galah sebagai tarikan utama.Katanya, bagi memastikan udang galah tidak pupus di sungai itu, pihak berkenaan melepaskan benih udang galah secara berperingkat.

Sejak Januari lalu hingga kini, sebanyak 150,000 benih udang galah sudah dilepaskan."Benih udang berkenaan dijangka membesar dalam tempoh enam bulan dan kami difahamkan jabatan terbabit sudah mensasarkan untuk melepaskan kira-kira 300,000 benih udang setahun."Setakat ini, sambutan kaki pancing amat memberangsangkan sehingga kadangkala tidak cukup perahu atau bot untuk mereka," katanya yang menyambut baik langkah kerajaan untuk memajukan kawasan itu sebagai destinasi pelancongan.

Journey to Brunei Drop Off

Artikel ini agak menarik dari web rakan kita dari Brunei. (www.bruneifishing.com). Jom baca..

Introduction

In my last year 2006 fishing trip to Brunei Drop off so thrills with the bottom fishing, I thought it was going to be my most memorable fishing trip. But I was wrong. My fishing trip to the same spot I found my self in a different situation which was even more hilarious and challenging. On the 12th to 13th of May 2007 a group of nine of us were ready in Serasa at 6.00am waiting for transporting our rods ,baits, Coleman boxes and other fishing accessories using small boat to the big fishing boat belonging to Fred. Among the group members are Kevin, Henry, David, Paul, Henry, George, Gary, Roy & Musa (Joey) (nickname Si*Pengapon* in Brunei Fishing)

Journey to Droff off

We set off around 7.30am. It took us around 9 hours journey to reach this famous fishing spot called Brunei drop off. Along the way Kevin, Paul, Gary, Roy & Henry were busy set up their trolling gears. Hopefully along the way we can catch Tuna, Tengiri or Giant Travelly but no luck this time. Afternoon we reach at our fishing spot. After the boat was secured, we started fishing. Since current quite strong, we used heavier sinkers. I noticed that big strike to Kevin rod beside me. After a good fight he landed a grouper weight around 5kg as our first good catch.Others in our group including me bring up Kerisi on the average of 1 to 3kg non stop in action.

Amberjack and Ruby Snapper time

By this time it was already 6.00pm, Henry shout big fish because his rod been strike hard by big fish and the ten minutes tug of war resulted in two amberjacks hooked up at the same time. Not even 10 minute after that Roy landed 6kg of Ruby Snapper. The landing of the big one gave a tremendous boost to our morale to land more big ones. How ever no body could break Kevin ‘s record as he landed 12 kg of Ruby Snapper. Paul and I broke our rods as half way fought with the unknown fish.

Tuna Bonito attack

8.00pm. Suddenly George notice that half way there was another aggressive fish took our fish baits and small fish we caught. It was Tuna Bonito. I took my jig rod and start jigging, a moment 15 meters drop my metal jig was strike hard. It’s a good sign for every body as the 1.5kg Tuna Bonito was captured.The jigging party now started. For more than an hour one by one Tuna Bonito bring up to the boat. Seem to be big group of this fish below our boat and we decided to stop jigging due to our cooler boxes we had not enough to contain the fish we caught. Now 1.30am it was a silence hour, everybody already sleeping.

Morning breakfast and trolling

I wake up at 5am, It’s so nice and sea so calm. Later I saw Henry came out from the cabin and we started to do bottom fishing. Henry manage to bring up one Amber jack, few coral fish and I caught some kerisi and Emperor fish which local name called ‘Anduping’. This morning as the sun already rises, bottom fishing not promising as our bait less been disturb so we decided to do trolling few round around the area before go home.

Conclusion
A total of more than 200kg of fish we caught including Kerisi, Ruby snappers, Red snapper, Emperor fish, Tuna Bonito, Amberjack and other coral fish. we vowed to come back again for more. At 6pm we were arrived at Serasa.

BruneiFishing:"When we bait the hook with our hearts, the fish always bite."

Memancing Laut Dalam

Jika ingin merasa memancing laut dalam, yg betul2 dalam boleh mencuba di Spartly dan Labuan. Juga yang ingin merasa ke Pulau Pemanggil atau Redang. Bulan2 begini agak sesuai ke sana. Tapi belanjanya bukan murah. Dari RM250 untuk Pemanggil dan Redang manakala hingga RM2500 sekepala bagi Spartly & Labuan...

Sekarang dengarnya musim tuna - blue fin, dog tooth, yellow fin.

Jadi yang nak mencuba di sana, kunjungi laman ini:

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Resort/3655/simpan/pakej.html

Found Happiness at Fish Farm

June 3, 2007
BY LIZ SHEPARD
ARGUS-PRESS (OWOSSO)
MONTROSE

Walt Wilson is on his third career and enjoying every wet and dirty moment of it. A former General Motors Corp. worker and crop farmer, the 67-year-old decided to try a different kind of farming after he found growing crops didn't suit him.

"I've always worked two or three jobs all my life. ... My idea is I'm going to work until I drop," Wilson said. Having always enjoyed the sport of fishing, Wilson dug a one-third-acre pond on his 60-acre farm to start his new business -- Wilson's Enterprises Aquaculture Division.

"I love to fish," he said while keeping an eye on some Japanese koi recently netted from his pond. "If I can't go fish, I may as well play with them." Now, more than a decade since he dug that pond and found the right fish to fill it with -- bluegill, crappie, bass, catfish, koi and perch -- Wilson spends his days outside tending them, only stopping when he needs to sit down for a quick rest.

"The thing about a fish farm is you're going to get wet and dirty," he said. Currently, he has koi and catfish for sale alongside turtles and bullfrog tadpoles. Wilson said he's ready to expand his operations in Montrose. He hopes to dig another pond and bring in some of the fish he raised at another farm. Wilson said he brings in fish upon request by dragging a large net through the pond and transports them live for school biology classes or to people just passing by who want to stock their ponds. "Or I send the grandkids with a little butterfly net and say 'Catch that one,' " he said, smiling.

Susan Smith and Darren Wheeler of Montrose stopped by looking for a Mother's Day gift after having spotted the fish farm while passing by. "I want a big beautiful one," Smith said as she looked at a few 2-year-old koi recently brought in from the pond. Although she is more interested in Wilson's larger koi that are used for breeding, she settled on three of the 10-inch fish, as well as a few babies. Over the buzz of aeration pumps connected to large containers the fish are moved into from the pond, Smith asked Wilson when she would be able to purchase one of his large koi that are between 4 and 5 years old.

"I'm just waiting for my Cleopatra -- I've already named her," Smith said of the large koi she had previously spotted in the pond. Although Wilson couldn't set a date for her to pick up Cleopatra, Smith already has decided one of the fish she took home will be named Paris and another will be named after a rock star. Smith said it is the relaxing quality of the animals and the sport of fishing that got her started with the koi.

With a natural environment that does not contain chemicals, Wilson also continues to enjoy his hobby of fishing by making a few casts with a barb-less hook into his pond when his chores are done. However, he still enjoys the competitive nature of the sport. "It's enjoyable -- trying to outdo your buddy, who has the biggest and the most in the boat," Wilson said. Although he isn't sure how many fish are sold each year, Wilson said he would continue trying to grow his business. "You either can do it or you can't do it -- I'm going to struggle until I can't," he said.

Alien Attack @ Teluk Bahang

Fisherman found it at Teluk Bahang. Newspaper not allowed to print it.

Email received from Jun.