Not fishin' yet

[shresearchdude]

off the chesapeake, in the channel within sight of land , sunny and low winds for now...
got some stripers, horseshoe crabs, anchovy,herring,tiny spotted hakes, silver hakes, clearnose & winter skates, shame-faced crabs(pretty cool), tiny searobins,fluke, window pane flounder, some other misc crabs.

[shresearchdude]

after a nice sunny day off the Chesapeake with catches dominated with inshore stuff we're running back offshore to do some stations before the wind comes again. At least that way we can come inshore at a later time and escape the 30-40knot winds that are predicted AGAIN. Time to get some sleep...

[MS22]

Sh research, if you don't mind and have the time, could you explain to us the goals of your trip? Are you specifically targeting any species or is this an annual/seasonal trawl survey etc? Any information you could provide would be wonderful(perhaps a link to a website that outlines the goals of your trip if you are short on time). I am sure you have explained this before but I probably missed it. thanks a lot!

[shresearchdude]

A good question since I may not have given enough background at the beginning of the post...

at this link click on bottom trawl survey:

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/datasets/fisheries/welcome.html#trawl

I forget how to post links properly. Any help out there?


30-40 knots coming sunday night- can't wait...

[shresearchdude]

the saga continues...in a couple hundred feet of water..off NC

dogfish: both spiny(thousands) and smooth(some), fluke, 4 spot flounder, scorpion fish, black bellied redfish, squids, scup(porgie), tiny searobins, conger/american eels, fawn cusk eels, deep bodies boarfish, silver hake, spotted hake, bluefish, black seabass, a shortnosed sturgeon, a small shark like guy(I'll check), a couple of tiny crabs that need to be ID'd back home.

[shresearchdude]

zigzagging from offshore NC to inshore from 80ft to 200+ with huge diversity. I can't even name all the fish since I'm worn out and can't write that much. cool fish of the day: grenadiers, cool shape- silver color and small.

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8435

[shresearchdude]

still working inshore-offshore. Down by pamlico sound and headed to cape hatteras.
The shift just getting off had a deck full of dogfish on their last set where the contour lines get real tight down here. Wind picking up again? 25Knots now with more to come.
Time to put my happy face on and get to work. Slept like crap and cranky til breakfast break at 7am....

[shresearchdude]

the shift before me filled the net with dogfish(we don't like them either).

We're inshore now and getting mostly small fish: spot, southern kingfish, croaker, banded drum, dogfish(big ones of course) windowpane, weakfish, spotted hake and probably another dozen species that my brain has already forgotten. Got some big shrimp for a change too, but we can't eat them since someone wanted them saved for future ID work.

[shresearchdude]

catch of the day: loggerhead turtles, measured tagged and released, all 3 the size of kiddie pools. Also some sand bar sharks, butterfly sting ray, nurse sharks, smooth dogs apparently like inshore NC while spiny ones do not.

THOUSANDS of spiny dogfish, any way can rely that to the powers that be who say they are an endangered species ?????????


Thanx for the real time updates.....awesome


Grenadiers are located off of Russia, so says the info page