how's yer memory?

[10lber]

Anyone remember Sea Angler Magazine doing an article about the building of an artificial reef from old car tyres tied together. I think it was going to be off the north sea coast but i cant remember. It was sometime in the late eighties or very early ninties i think.

[LittleFish]

Not sure how good my memory is, but I'm sure I remember something along those lines

If I'm not mistaken the idea was blocked on the grounds that old tyres are a pollution hazard!

[Spinner64]

I do remember reading something about that! Sure it was used in the US first and the article was based on how it created mini eco systems and the larger fish moved in just as they would on a wreck.

[chazyboi]

they are building a reef at borth where i fish should be good all the rocks bringing in bait crabs ect ...never heard of cars and tyres ,,,

[10lber]

Yeah. I beleive it was supposed to be the future wrecks of the boat fishing world. I remember the author saying that the wrecks in the north sea were so over fished that anglers would in the future have to book 24 hour trips to get to the wrecks with any fish attathed to their eco system.
So this would be the new wreck fishing venue of the future. The tyres would give the fish the protection they needed promoting breeding and providing a managed fishery close by for anglers. The use of tyres would also ensure that they were comercially unfishable. Sounded as though it would work well when i read about it but i've never heard anything about it since.
If anyone out there knows where it is...................It would be interesting to see if it actually did what it said on the tin.
I dont think the scheme was halted due to pollution issues although other schemes in america have been.I think this scheme went ahead on the basis that more good than harm could come of it. Also i remember seeing a picture of the said tyres aboard a ship on route to their site.

[lazy hooker]

Originally Posted by 10lber

Yeah. I beleive it was supposed to be the future wrecks of the boat fishing world. I remember the author saying that the wrecks in the north sea were so over fished that anglers would in the future have to book 24 hour trips to get to the wrecks with any fish attathed to their eco system.
So this would be the new wreck fishing venue of the future. The tyres would give the fish the protection they needed promoting breeding and providing a managed fishery close by for anglers. The use of tyres would also ensure that they were comercially unfishable. Sounded as though it would work well when i read about it but i've never heard anything about it since.
If anyone out there knows where it is...................It would be interesting to see if it actually did what it said on the tin.
I dont think the scheme was halted due to pollution issues although other schemes in america have been.I think this scheme went ahead on the basis that more good than harm could come of it. Also i remember seeing a picture of the said tyres aboard a ship on route to their site.

why do we think that they would be unfishable to commercials....they can fish great big hulking rusting wrecks with no problems....would have thought a pile of tryres wouldn't pose too many problems......

anyway there are thousands of wrecks in the north sea barren due to fishing....why not just stop the fishing on them so they recover??

john

[10lber]

lazy hooker.
I was just repeating the information that was in the artical in sea angler magazine of twenty years or more back. ( Or the bits i could remember about it)They seemed to reckon that it would be commercialy unfishable. Maybe they put an early warning system into the tyres or something.

And that is why the project came to fruition in the first place as you say there are hundreds of barren wrecks in the north sea.So the idea was to create an artificial reef that would commercially unfishable but not for the rod and line angler. I dont know what systems they implemented in order to achieve this but they seemed confident that that would in fact be commercially unfishable

[kajydog]

I believe your right with the reefs being in the North Sea, more South than North and I believe there was more than one on the agenda. It wasn't the angling magazine I remember it from it was a big news item at the time, I saw it on TV. I used to run several small businesses at that time, the main one being roofing, but I also dealt in other things, one of them being Scrap commercial tyres for wagons. Scrap car tyres were always a problem as they were difficult to recycle and millions were piled up all over the country. This was one of the ideas to get rid of them, I do remember this being in the trade. Eventually one smart guy came up with an Idea to grind them down and turn them into bust bins, they're still about today, but wheelie bins have taken the market.