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11-15-2006, 11:42 AM
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  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Exeter, Rhode Island
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| That's classic! 
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11-15-2006, 06:06 PM
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A couple of months ago, I had a double of 25+ pound cod that did not come up so fast as it was a double. When I finally got the two to the surface, there was a pack of over 100 dogs that were chewing on the cod. I netted the cod and over a dozen dogs at once and of course, couldn't lift them so I started throwing dogs out of the net. They are so focused on eating that they were still trying to finish eating the guts out of the cod, even in the net!......JC | ||
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11-15-2006, 08:49 PM
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  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: VOODOO GRILL, MYSTIC
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| wow jASON .....I BELEIVE IT.......  | ||
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11-24-2006, 10:54 AM
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Unless the managers increase the quota and have a realistic reduction, the problem is just going to get worse. At least MA had the balls to get a small quota instituted to get the ball rolling. Now we need the feds to take action and follow suit. I don't care if they use em for chicken feed. Just set a quota that will make a good days pay for the commercial fleet and they will go. | ||
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11-24-2006, 11:11 AM
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  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: www.atlanticoffshorelures.com
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| Hi Dave, Your absolutely right, I was out just a couple days ago outside of Scituate and I was jigging 20 dogs to every cod inshore. Those things are way too thick out there. Armand | ||
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11-26-2006, 07:21 AM
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 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Home
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| Managed Species American Eel American Lobster Atlantic Croaker Atlantic Herring Atlantic Striped Bass Atlantic Sturgeon Black Sea Bass Bluefish Horseshoe Crab Northern Shrimp Red Drum Scup Shad & River Herring Spanish Mackerel Spot Spotted Seatrout Summer Flounder Tautog Weakfish Winter Flounder  Increasingly over the last two decades spiny dogfish have become an important commercial fishery, providing commercial fishing opportunities during a time when the harvest of other species was seriously curtailed. Although there is a low market demand in the US, the European market commonly sells spiny dogfish as fish and chips and pickled beer garden snacks. Over the last ten years, however, tremendous growth in the fishery has exceeded the availability of the resource and resulted in the development and implementation of stringent fishery management measures in federal waters, and subsequently complementary management measures in state waters. With these restrictions, overfishing is no longer occurring, but the spiny dogfish stock is overfished. Dogfish is a late maturing (~ 12 years old) species with a long gestation period (~ 2 years). These life history characteristics make for a lengthy rebuilding period (over 2 decades), yet dogfish is the most commonly seen shark species on the East Coast! Upcoming Meetings SPINY DOGFISH CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENT: Effective 0001 hours on September 25, 2006, the fishery for spiny dogfish is closed. States must implement regulations that prohibit commercial landing, harvest, and possession of spiny dogfish in state waters for the remainder of period 1. The spiny dogfish fishery will open at 0001 hours on November 1, 2006, at which time the period 2 quota becomes available. The period 2 landing limit is 600lbs/trip in any one calendar day.
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11-27-2006, 01:43 PM
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| Join Date: Nov 2006
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| I read this the other day.....we have em so bad up here in Maine....I was catching them in 5 FOW while live-lineing for bass  they are everywhere....jefferies....tantas.....wherever you go.....we've had to troll for bluefins for the past 3 years because of these damn fish...you can't get a bait down...friggin ridiculous! | ||
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12-08-2006, 01:15 PM
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| NBS Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hebron & Mystic Shipyard East, Mystic, Ct
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| Capt Jason, It looks like the Flounder have come back. My grandparents had a cottage in Nantasket. My father took myself and my two brothers flounder fishing around Bumpkin Island in the 50's and 60's in a boat rented from A street pier. We could catch buckets of flounder. Later in the 70's we had our own boat and would fish around Boston Light for cod and pollack. We would always catch a few Dogs but nothing like now. They attack everything it's hard sometimes to get through them. We can only hope something is done to thin them out. Your pictures reminded me of the days of my youth and fishing seamed much better. | ||
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12-08-2006, 05:06 PM
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| Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Quincy, Ma.
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Ah, the good old days! We still get those cod by Boston Light but the pollack are all very small (turd pollack=bass bait). The floundering had been getting better every year for the past 7 or 8 but this year it took a definate drop over the past few. I think the dogfish have been scoffing up the baby flounders so now we are "cleaning up" the last of them. There can't be any recruitment because of this and I think it will take another 10 years after the dogs "go away" for groundfish in general to recover.....JC | |||
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