Carp fishing in Czech Republic
Carp fishing near Třeboň in Czech Republic, Rožmberk Pond
Seasonal carp fishing for Christmas
(8 Nov 2011)
AP Television
Trebon, Czech Republic - November 7, 2011
1. Mid of fish being pulled out of water
2. Wide of fish being pulled out of water
3. Mid of fish being processed, tilt down to fish being flushed into container
4. Mid of worker throwing fish onto slide
5. Mid of fish being pushed down slide
6. Mid of fish being emptied into container which is lifted
7. Wide of fish being flushed into large water tanks
8. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Ales Krez, manager Fisheries Trebon:
We can say that since the days of the founders of these ponds the basic technique of the fishing has remained the same. We use the same shaped nets, only instead of wooden boats we use aluminium ones and instead of wooden barrels we use plastic ones.
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10. Wide of fishermen walking through pond
11. Mid of two fishermen walking
12. Wide tracking shot of fishermen walking
13. Close of fishermens' feet walking through mud
14. Wide of fishermen in boats beating water with sticks
15. Wide of fisherman in boat
16. Mid of fishermen's feet walking through mud
17. Wide of fishermen pulling net through mud
18. Close of fishermen pulling net
19. Wide of fishermen pulling net
20. Wide of thousands of fish in pond at the surface
21. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Ales Krez, manager Fisheries Trebon:
Our Bosilecky pond is one of our biggest ponds. Its surface is 200 hectares and it's also one of our oldest ones dated to the edge of the 14th - 15th Century. With its location it's among our best and most fertile ponds and it's also very shallow.
22. Close of fisherman holding net
23. Close of fish struggling in pond
24. Mid of fisherman stirring in pond with pole
25. Wide of fish being pulled out of water surrounded by nets and boats
26. Mid of fishermen flushing fish into tray
27. Mid of fish being thrown into tray, pans left
28. Close of fish in tray
29. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Ales Krez, manager Fisheries Trebon:
Of course the biggest consumption is still during Christmas even though there is now more demand during Easter. For the summer grilling season we can also sell a portion of our production but it is still minimal compared to Christmas. For instance during the summer we catch 600 tons of fish that goes to the market. But most of it gets exported. Only a small number stays here with us.
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31. Close of fish being pulled out of tank with small net
32. Mid of fish being pulled out of tank
33. Close of fish being stunned with bat
34. Mid of merchants selling fish
35. Wide of fish-stand with people queuing
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Prague, Czech Republic - December 18, 2008
36. Various of fishmonger hitting carp to stun it
37. Close of tank of live carp
38. Various shots of preparing typical Czech Christmas carp dinner
LEADIN:
It's carp season in the Czech Republic and this can mean only one thing - Christmas is coming.
The fish is prized as a festive delicacy and is served coated in breadcrumbs and fried on Christmas Eve.
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The sight of a carp being pulled from a lake in early November is the first sign of Christmas in the Czech Republic.
Lines of fishermen wade into a huge network of ponds with giant nets to scoop up more than 200 tons of carp - a fish which, although derided in some parts of the world, is a must-have delicacy for most families over the festive period.
The brown-and-silver fish wriggle furiously as they are caught using a centuries-old technique and then raised into huge water tanks to keep them fresh.
Ales Krez is the manager of the fishery here in Trebon.
Their destination: Christmas markets, fishmongers and eventually even bathtubs where people keep them in the run up to their feasts.
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Carp harvest marks start of countdown to Christmas in Czech Republic
It's the moment Czechs know the countdown to Christmas has begun.
Time for the annual carp harvest in the Czech Republic, a traditional practice that is now attracting crowds of onlookers.
Before dawn fisherman gathered along the shores of Vrkoc pond in Southern Moravia for the annual carp harvest.
What they do isn't so much fishing as it is trapping or in this case netting.
In hip waders and waterproof coats, the men and a few women take to boats and step off of them into the murky waters.
Using a centuries old technique, some haul enormous nets, others beat the water with sticks to scare their catch, carp, towards the shore.
The carp glowing brown, green and golden in the dawn light wriggle furiously as they are snared and brought slowly to land to be sorted.
It's a scene played out across Czech Republic in October and November.
Here at Pohorilice Fishery it has become a spectator event explains the organiser Roman Osicka: This event we organised for 20 years now has already become a tradition. We organise it for the people to come here so they can see the fishermen at work and try out our fish specialties.
The fish are destined for the Christmas dinner table as a delicacy.
They are kept alive until then in large industrial tanks, then sold on the streets across the country just before the holiday.
But the numbers of carp are under pressure recently from a growing cormorant population, who are also fond of the fish much to the annoyance of fishery managers.
Cormorant is of course a big problem of a fresh water fishery, particularly the North European migrating type that comes to our area during the fall and stays until May. It causes us significant damage that we estimate somewhere between seven and eight million Koruna, says Osicka.
For reasons unknown to scientists the cormorant population is growing, according to the Ministry of the Environment.
Currently 700,000 pairs of the birds live in Europe. During the migration season in November 100,000 thousand of the pairs will winter in Czech Republic which boosts the population from just 300 pairs here the rest of the year.
During winter (November onwards) cormorant have been known to descend on a pond or lake pick it clean of all its small fry (young fish) in just a few days.
Cormorants are so called food opportunists, they eat what is available and when they are here in the Winter they are trying to minimise energetic losses linked to searching for food, that is, they go where fish is available, explains Jan Sima, head of species protection at the Ministry of the Environment in the Czech Republic.
The environment ministry used to compensate fisheries for damages done to them by the cormorant.
In recent years they paid out 50 million koruna ($2.5 million).
That was until the birds were dropped from the protected species list. Which takes the problem out of the hands of the ministry and puts it in the laps of the fisheries the owners say.
Now they must pay to cull the numbers of birds with organised hunts. Which some of the fishery managers say they will hold from November onwards when the flocks of cormorants arrive.
While the cormorants have yet to arrive, there are plenty of herons also standing by in the hope of a carp meal.
The fishermen netted several tons from this pond in just one day.
The lowly carp may be derided in some parts of the world, but here it's a must-have Christmas delicacy.
Czechs gather for fish soup or fry them in breadcrumbs. They're even says to bring good fortune if you keep some of their scales in your wallet.
Some keep the fish alive in the bathtub after buying them at market just before Christmas. Some, though, stand back as the vendor kills them there and then with a club.
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Fish Harvest at Krčín Pond
Autumn fish harvests have begun on ponds in South Bohemia and will continue until the end of this month. The company Rybářství Třeboň, the largest producer of fresh water fish in Europe, plans to harvest approximately 2,300 tonnes of fish, mainly carp, from 250 ponds. Most Czechs eat carp for Christmas dinner.
Czechs to pay more for Christmas carp after drought
(16 Nov 2018) Czechs will have to pay more for their traditional Christmas delicacy this year after serious droughts badly damaged the carp population.
The drought caused a lethal combination of heat and lack of water and oxygen in the ponds in most parts of the country.
In the region considered a carp haven near the border with Austria, however, the situation was different.
The region also suffered from the drought, but a network of about 500 carp ponds interconnected with man-made canals ensured the living condition for the fish.
A lack of water in the ponds was a key factor this autumn for the (increased) price, said Josef Malecha, chief executive of Trebon Fisheries, a major fresh water fish producer in the country and the European Union.
The company estimates its fish production this year will be similar to previous years, about 3,200 metric tonnes (3,527 tons).
Carp account for more than 90 percent of the catch. The rest include pike, catfish, pike-perch, amur (grass carp) and tench. They are exported to many European countries.
As a result, the weight gain of the fish was less, Malecha said. So, we had to fix it by using more food (grain). And the food was more expensive because the farmers suffered from the drought as well.
In the Czech Republic, a country of meat lovers who mostly overlook fish for the rest of the year, nobody could imagine Christmas without it.
Live carp are sold in street markets just before the holiday and turned into fish soup and fried in bread crumbs to serve on Christmas Eve.
Some lucky ones are given to children to play with in their bathtubs and are later released back into the rivers or ponds.
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Annual carp harvest gets underway in advance of Christmas dinner
Fishermen in the Czech region of South Bohemia gathered at dawn on Tuesday around ponds stocked with carp for a catch destined for the country's Christmas markets.
The carp haul, as it is called, takes place once a year in autumn.
In a centuries-old technique, gangs of men, and some women, beat the water of the pond with poles to scare the fish into nets.
The carp are then slowly scooped up, sorted by size and weight, and placed into water containers.
Hundreds of tons of carp will be captured throughout the country from the ponds using these techniques.
The carp are kept alive until they can be sold at holiday markets for the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in the Czech Republic.
Iva Starkova, who lives nearby, brought her young son Martin to see the spectacle for the first time.
We are true South Bohemians, we live five kilometres from here and we like this landscape and the ponds, and this is the first time we've shown him (my son) the fish and the haul, she said.
The time-honoured practice is a scene played out across the Czech Republic in November, but particularly in South Bohemia near the border with Austria.
A group of Portuguese exchange students were among those gathered at the pond to watch.
I am just amazed with the process itself, and how traditional it still is, said Angela Felicio, one of the exchange students.
The size of the fish is just amazing. They are huge.
The region has an elaborate network of around 500 carp ponds interconnected with man-made canals that started to be dug in the mid-14th century.
By the turn of the 16th century, there were around 25,000 canals in the entire country.
Czechs, for the most part are big meat-lovers, and only tend to eat carp at Christmas.
Fish in general isn't so popular regardless of the season, with an average Czech consuming just 1.37 kilograms (3.02 pounds) of fish a year.
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