Re: Dogfish Eating Cod
 

We caught some “pups” while sea bass fishing this spring. They were just born (live bearers) and were extremely small. And the beat goes on. They have no predators and they don’t appear to have a market value. They evidently don’t taste good. If they did, they would appear in fish markets and on restaurant menus. When they start eating cod and haddock, squid and crustaceans, maybe they will start showing up as floaters behind the draggers.

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Spiny dogfish are AKA "Cape Shark"
https://capecodfishermen.org/images/...eb_version.pdf
Had some in Providence a year or so ago and it was rather good.
Just haven't gotten up the nerve to try to clean and cook some of the ones I catch jigging for bass.

Re: Dogfish Eating Cod
 

Caught, tagged and released two on a metal Wednesday evening from a jetty.

Re: Dogfish Eating Cod
 

Kill 'em and feed them to the crabs.

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I don't understand why this is news. Take humans out of it and there is a balanced relationship between dogfish and cod (or whatever else they prey on). Add humans and now you have us taking out a large number of the dogfishes' prey, but not taking out any dogfish. Of course dogfish numbers are going to rise while cod numbers are going to decline. So only two things can be done. Stop catching so many cod or start catching more dogfish.

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We caught a whole bunch of dogfish this year while fluking and bottom fishing for sea bass. Way too many.

Re: Dogfish Eating Cod
 

An aluminum baseball bat to the head. Repeat as necessary.

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The cookbook "The Joy of Cooking" has a Fish & Chips recipe and recommends using dogfish. It's a delicious recipe.

Don't need to bleed. Just wack em on the head to stop the squirming and filet them right after catching. Put in a bag on ice. No problem leaving the skin on and slicing it off at the end of the day on the water. Cut off the belly flaps too.

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Reminds me of the time I was out on a party boat, and I had an absolute lunatic fishing next to me. The doggies were thick, and he was getting pissed. Finally, he snapped. With every doggie that came up, he would pull out his knife, and start stabbing it in the head, while yelling “die bastard die”. Then toss the bleeding fish back in the water.

Needless to say, he got a little extra space at the rail from me.

Re: Dogfish Eating Cod