According to this report the water quality at Peel is crap. It’s common knowledge that there is a raw sewage outfall pipe “off” the breakwater but I don’t think a lot of people realise just how close it actually is. I wonder if people would be so keen to keep and eat their catch from the breakwater if they knew? The side scan image below shows where the pipe runs with the exit poop shoot circled in red.
So if you’ve ever wondered why Peel breakwater is holding plenty of fish when there is little else about it’s probably down to the abundance of “food”. Maybe you want to throw a few of those Mackerel back now?
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What is the curved line through the scan to the left of the pipe?
John it’s the track of the boat when I took the scan, it represents the column of water between the boat and the bottom so as it gets deeper that line appears wider. Hope that helps.