Re: New York Times: "Fish seek cooler waters"
Re the abundance of whiting and ling: When I turned 17 I was able to drive from Bayonne to Princess Bay on Staten Island and fish on the Viking Captained by Andy Kondracki. In a few hours my buddy and I filled up a couple of burlap sacks with ling and whiting. We would give the fish away to a lot of neighbors who very much appreciated them and we felt like great anglers and nice guys. Sometimes a lobster boat would come by out in the NY Bight and sell shorts for .50 cents. We couldn't afford them so we passed. This was in '57 to about '62. Ten anglers on the boat could easily catch 5 to 7 hundred pounds of fish in a day and they were decent sized. My fishing buddy never left Bayonne and all the guys there blamed the Polish and East German 'factory ships' for destroying the fishing here especially whiting and ling.
Dakota nailed it IMO.
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