This months adventure...begins Tuesday

[shresearchdude]

The rest of the shift was uneventful.
Winter Flounder
Yellowtail flounder
winter skates
little skates
lobsters
atlantic herring
small red hake
small silver hake
longhorn sculpin
sea ravens
windowpane flounder
a tiny wolf fish?(ID at another time)

Yellowtail flounder are caught along NJ coast(not in the fall) their diet must not be fish since they only have really small teeth. Biggest one I've ever seen was about 2 lbs. Their mouths are much different than winter flounder and yes they do have yellow on them, much more brown than yellow though...

Foggy out here all night and all day(so far). Seas calming down with a forecast for 10-15knot winds through tuesday(for now)

[Reelron]

Yellow Tail Flounder a would be a rare catch on hook & line. I have seen a few caught while on bottom fishing trips over the years. Used to see one occasionaly on a Quincy flounder trip yeasr ago. Not many though.

Do you guys throw back everything that isn't saved for research or do some things become dinner?

[shresearchdude]

It's Saturday?
Out East of Cape Cod in 530 ft.
Catch included:
Red Hake
Silver hake
white hake
some spiny dogfish
arcadian redfish?
2 spoonfooted octopus(tiny)
witch flounder
american?
plaice(flounder)
1 cod(10lbs)
blueback herring
alewife
lobsters
skates(of course)
and some misc stuff...

[shresearchdude]

560 ft off of Cape Cod and headed north.

Plaice have replaced winter flounder as the most abundant flounder.
skates: little, winter and now smooth.
More red hake and getting bigger.
silver hakes
a couple of haddock
blueback herring
alewife
some spiny dogs

[shresearchdude]

Most dominant fish today in 165 meters:
Acadian redfish.
others:
blueback herring
thorny skate
smooth skate
some dogfish
silver hake
red hake
ocean pout
hagfish(yuck)
various crabs
lobster
and some grey sole(not much meat on the flounders) I don't know how big they have to be to have them served for dinner.

link to info on acadian redfish(fishbase)
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ry.php?id=3969

On another note... there are whales swimming around with the loons out here- I haven't seen the two together but there is a guy on the flying bridge doing a seabird/marine mammal survey.

[shresearchdude]

Out in the Gulf o Maine and headed towards Nova Scotia.
Water depth 718 ft on the next net set.
Overnight the catches included:

Blackbellied rosefish
acadian redfish
witch flounder
smooth skates
thorny skates
a few haddock
some dogfish
atlantic herring
alewife
silver hake
white hake
red hake
longfin hake
lobster
various small pink shrimp
a couple of tiny octopus
goosefish
sea ravens
some other misc fish I didn't get to see....

Saw a few whales blowing when I went out during the afternoon break. The marine mammal guy said the closer to the Bay of Fundy we get - the more we should see. Still not bad out here, sunny and cold(40F?). No wind yet...

[shresearchdude]

Wandering back and forth into Canadian waters. Cold breeze, must have been in the 30's all morn.
Catches from this morning include:

big pollack
small haddock
a cod here and there
more acadian redfish
black bellied rosefish
smooth skates
white hake
silver hake
ocean pout
witch flounder
lobster(retained for further analysis?)
a deep water red crab(not sure of proper name) more like a rock crab than anything else
and of course some fish I didn't even see since i was busy working on other fish....