One fish a day thread

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Yellowtail flounder. Yes there is some yellow in the tail. These fish are a bit more like a winter flounder as they don't have teeth-to bite things off.
These are north and cold fish that get up to 25" though most are smaller.

I've never followed through and done a taste test of all the flounders.

a link to a different kind of info-

https://sites.google.com/site/foodfr.../home/flounder

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Lets hit the squid.

Longfin Squid.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/37238.html

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Shortfin squid. These tend to be not as numerous as the longfin in the trawl catches that I've witnessed.
These tend to have some color to them-and I've bought squid to feed fish that fishing bait suppliers couldn't sell as easy since fisherman want white squid.

an interesting article on a mass stranding up at Cape Cod.

http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/mfr401/mfr4015.pdf


I'm cheating a bit on the photo. There's a longfin and a short fin in the tub. Longfin is whiter, or has less pigment.

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Halibut-from the Atlantic. Mostly up in northern waters. It always seemed to me that when the northern pink shrimp are in the nets-so are Halibut. The thing about Halibut is that they are so much thicker than any other flatfish. If one was to filet even on that is 20" then the filet is much more substantial than even a 30" fluke or winter flounder.

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Hogchocker-from the Hudson River.

We had done a trawl survey that was focused on Tomcod and we would often get this flatfish. Interesting story about them. Oh and they get stuck in buckets and on tables and it make them a pain in the ass to grab.

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldgu...tter/hogchoker

yes that's a sturgeon in the 2nd photo-released quickly.

3rd photo is a 40ft pole we caught at the corner of Bear Mountain right before a massive thunderstorm and a barge were coming our way...

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Winter flounder. We worked on the little guys for a few years in Raritan Bay/Navesink. We conducted some growth studies of fish in cages in various habitats. There were a few days where we collected hundreds of the little guys from a small zone in one of Sandy Hooks coves. To find such numbers of fish the method and timing really has to be focused and precise.
I'm going to put in some extra effort this year to determine if the densities of the fish in those coves is the same. As soon at the water gets toasty in those coves the fish spread out and head into the bay and find deeper habitat.

The photo's are of Georges Bank fish.

http://www.asmfc.org/species/winter-flounder

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Witch flounder also know as grey sole.

old link
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Glyptocephalus_cynoglossus.htm

a Canadian fisheries link
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/pub...egrise-eng.htm

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Clearnose skate. We worked on these guys last year determining how quickly they digest their food. The "old" estimate was a much slower rate of digestion.

http://journal.nafo.int/dnn/Volumes/...the-laboratory


The group photo is/are clearnose skates
The single photo is of a "pigment impaired" Winter skate.
The difference??
Not so much the appearance as the maximum size and a small rough patch on the underside of the fish...

What you may find in the restaurant could likely be the Winter Skate.

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Cod. I'll try to get some more photo's of large catches-don't have them on home computer.

The catches have seemed to drop off over the years from my own experience. That doesn't mean that I've been on the boat when they are in the cod sweet spots though...
Some of the graphics I've seen are alarming though. I'll try to find them.

2014 assessment for Gulf of Maine cod.

http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/saw/cod/pd...e_20140822.pdf

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I'm getting lazy...

Minke whale-from my Antarctic trip. They feed on krill that are hiding under the ice. Here is a group shooting under .