Diary of a previously urban savvy, social sciences graduate turned rural lady fish farmer


Saturday, August 16, 2008

Is raising fish sexy ?


Most definitely. The way we do it, it is.
Because we raise these creatures undercover, and use recirculated biologically treated water, no nasty, polluting wastes are discharged into our environment.
It's clean, green and environmentally responsible .
Now, that's hot.. ( nod to Paris )
Picture this. OK. Here in summer the temperature can rise to 35C, with an accompanying drooping humidity.
Summer is considered the high season in fish farming, because the fish grow readily and rapidly especially so in our rather intensive system, where really, it could be said the fish are hand-reared. They are hungry little buggers..
Because we want to be rich after selling them, we got to make sure they are raised under the best possible conditions. 5-star care.
So, careful and constant attention is given to all details related to growing parameters.
Most important is the amount of oxygen the fish have available. In fact, if the fish pool oxygen supply falls below a certain critical level, a stupendous ear-splitting alarm is activated, loud enough to wake my ancestors and yours.
High external temperatures have an adverse effect on the oygen levels. So.....the hotter it is, the less oxygen there is. High school science..
Yet I digress. The point of this is - if it's hot and humid outside, then it is at least 2-5 degrees more so inside the fish-raising igloo.
Thus 35 C becomes 37-40C. Women working under these conditions, like men, feel hot .They tend to fantasise about snow and perhaps chilled watermelon , not each other.
However, it is well known that when it's hot, generally you try to wear as little as possible to keep you cool, right ?
Right- one usually wears the kind of clothing I outlined in yesterday's blog post.
So we all sweat ( or perspire, dear) but when women wear T-shirts, and the body struggles to cool itself by sweating, what happens ?
What happens is similar for both genders of course, but for ladies, you get an unintended wet T-shirt situation - that's what you get.
No wonder that the guy who delivers the diesel fuel for the farm's back-up electricity generator speaks to my chest...
Who said raising fish isn't sexy ?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

heh!
I took me a few minutes to figure out if you were serious or not because the writing is fairly witty, might be very odd parody was my 1st reaction.. As I've been to some commercial fishing man made ponds here, where one is forced to suffer the indignity of fishing with pieces of bread (not cool) and I have to say what comes out is a far cry from some of the fine fishing I have been accustomed to previously outside Israel.. But if you guys are growing big fish for consumption in the holy land all I can say is awesome!

Mazal tov and please put on a hat :)

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Originally Australian-now live in Israel. I am involved in raising edible fish in a new way. Using an environmentally responsible method. Women in this industry are few, especially worldly savvy ones, like me. Let me share it with you. Come for the ride ?