Day 2

The morning of our second day dawned bright and sunny, so we went to the beach for a field day. Rosemary and Emmett had put out pots the night before, so first we brought in those to see if anything was caught. We found around 5 shore crabs in the pots and we examined these. We caught a few fish which we keyed out. Then we went seine netting, but only caught seaweed, but after a couple of retries we caught some flat fish and a shrimp. We also examined a fyke net and caught crabs, a blennie, five bearded rockling and sea scorpion. We learned about quotas, bycatch, discards and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

Putting out the seine net

After this we went out looking for the geocache near the Wee House of Malin. We had to use the compass on the GPS to to find the latitude and longitude. It was great craic. After the long trek across the beach we found the geocache in a plastic container.

Learning some fish I.D.