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Originally Posted by Boonebird  I was in new bedford the other day and talked to a captain of a gill net boat. This is what he said he personally has never heard of such a thing. His thought was one of two thing. Either a washed up gill net for monk fish or someone is poaching stripers. One or the other. Its not for fluke. Fluke would not be able to gill them selfs. They would swim up to the net and bump into it. And back off. |
Well...he's wrong about one thing - there were at least two very large fluke tangled and alive in that net - the mesh was 6 tor 8 inches.
This thing was WAY inshore, inside Long Island Sound, in very shallow waters (30 ft) so the buoys would not have worked for a monkfish net (lines were not nearly long enough for deep water fish) unless they target the monkfish that come into shallow waters to spawn (they do that...the young grow in the estuaries and were once referred to as cape-cod ministers because of the territorial grunting noises that they make when colonialists would harvest clams on sundays instead of going to church)
and I would think thargeting any spawning species would be illegal.
this is what the net looked like....