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| Originally Posted by stevechesh I wonder how far offshore they were when they caught it? I've done a fair bit of diving down that end of Cornwall but never seen one in the wild, and i don't think i'd fancy my chances if i was in the water with one........... |
Thresher would probably be more scared of you if it met you. They feed mostly on small fish, herring and mackerel in particular. There used to be a good run of them up the East Anglian coastline years back when there were herring. Sadly the herring are now fished out, plus the incresead water temperature is now changing the species found in the southern North Sea.
IIRC at one point in time the largest ever Thresher recorded in the UK was caught at Great Yarmouth (I'm going back to the 70s) it was caught in a trammel net and was 50m off the shore at South Beach. Water depth there would have been a couple of meters at most....
Chris