RC: Yes.
E: You do not get much for them in the summer, do you? Are
they hard to catch?
RC: That is right.
E: And they are smaller. What size net do you use in the
summertime to start off with?
RC: About an inch and a half.
E: That is a three-inch mesh?
RC: That is mostly the mesh we all depend on.
E: How many nets do you have to own to fish mullet? How many
sizes?
RC: Four.
E: What season do you have to put the biggest nets on? Roe
season?
RC: Yes. Trouble of it is, there are not many roe fish left.
E: They did not do too good this year. Do you think it is the
same amount of fish being taken? Is it just being divided
up by a lot more boats?
RC: No. These mullet raise up these rivers and canals and
places like that. They stopped the commercial fishermen
from going up there. You cannot fish up these canals
anymore. All of these canals have houses all along there.
These people have these cast nets, and soon as the sun goes
down [they go down] there with their cast nets and catch
themselves three or four mullet. The others up there will
do the same thing. They all do that, and it ends up to be a
whole lot of fish.
E: Well, there are a lot more of them than commercial
fishermen.
RC: That is what I say. You do not catch them because it is at
night, and it is pretty hard to catch them. How are you
going to catch them? It is all right to use cast nets, but
you cannot use a mullet net up there.
E: Do they still get together in big pods and run out, or are
they kept pretty much scattered by all the boats and little
backwater boats?
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