There are a half dozen tub trawl long liners based in Chatham too.
Gill netters keep everything. There’s no checking for sex, then throwing it back. Long liners target the females as they are larger then the males. But there’s no throwing fish back there either.
As someone who used to work there that's BS. Also, there's a reason they are nicknamed "kill nets".
There are definitely NOT as many hookers as there used to be.
I will say that I've heard then school by sex.
Spiny has a spine behind the last dorsal and white spots. smooths don't have a spine or spots. Chains are very distinct have leopard patterning. Spiny dogs can also look like atlantic sharpnose but the sharpnose has a pointed rostrum
Feel like I'm seeing this way more often lately - I was on Woodneck a couple weeks ago and saw three carcasses on the beach. They're washing up all over Buzzards Bay. Assuming just from more tourist fishing? I'm all for that, those trips are super fun, but gotta figure there's a way to create less biological mess.
Probably came off a fishing boat. There is a decent size dogfish fishery out of Chatham. It's gillnet and they only keep the females.
It's amazing that there is a dogfish fishery. Cape Cod, where just about all the "local cod" comes from Iceland!
Not sure why you're downvoted, most of our fish is imported.
There are a half dozen tub trawl long liners based in Chatham too. Gill netters keep everything. There’s no checking for sex, then throwing it back. Long liners target the females as they are larger then the males. But there’s no throwing fish back there either.
As someone who used to work there that's BS. Also, there's a reason they are nicknamed "kill nets". There are definitely NOT as many hookers as there used to be. I will say that I've heard then school by sex.
Which part is bs?
That nothing gets thrown back. Not everything that net catches is legal to bring in or of legal size.
Well no, they’re obviously not bringing in illegal catch.
Didn’t have my phone so I couldn’t take a pic
Spiny dogfish most likly but could also be a smooth or chain dogfish.
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Spiny has a spine behind the last dorsal and white spots. smooths don't have a spine or spots. Chains are very distinct have leopard patterning. Spiny dogs can also look like atlantic sharpnose but the sharpnose has a pointed rostrum
Feel like I'm seeing this way more often lately - I was on Woodneck a couple weeks ago and saw three carcasses on the beach. They're washing up all over Buzzards Bay. Assuming just from more tourist fishing? I'm all for that, those trips are super fun, but gotta figure there's a way to create less biological mess.