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General => Fish Talk => Topic started by: Aaron on April 18, 2009, 12:52:43 PM

Title: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: Aaron on April 18, 2009, 12:52:43 PM
With the new season of Deadliest Catch I find myself looking at (and more interested in) the finfish that come up as bicatch in the traps more than the crab.So far I've seen cod, Pacific halibut, pollock and an eel-like fish (lamprey?).
What other species might one expect to see as bycatch crabbing the Bering Sea?
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: Aaron on April 18, 2009, 08:42:41 PM
Check this out...

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/deadliest-catch-by-catch.html
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: Northern Boy on April 20, 2009, 11:19:41 AM
great link, thanks! I too am always on the lookout for bycatch. I'm glad it's not just me.
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: POLARCAT on April 20, 2009, 10:17:02 PM
Great link.  That dude carrying the octopus had the beak right up against his crotch.  That'll smart for sure. :smt103
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: CGN-38 on April 21, 2009, 08:16:00 AM
Yeah, by the way he was carrying it, it looked heavy too!
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: Bushy on April 21, 2009, 08:50:52 AM
Aren't lampreys a fresh water fish?  Maybe hagfish?

OK wrong again, damn I better go bakc to school.  wikipedia says:

"Lampreys live mostly in coastal and fresh waters, although at least one species, Geotria australis, probably travels significant distances in the open ocean, as evidenced by the lack of reproductive isolation between Australian and New Zealand"

Allen

Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: Aaron on April 21, 2009, 09:36:45 AM
I think you may be right about the hagfish Allen.That sounds more likely.
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: guitarzan on May 15, 2009, 02:42:59 PM
I read last year there was a bycatch of over a half million king salmon in the pollock industry. I think it was Pollock, I know it was the fast food industry. Thats Sacramento fish. Something is happening to them out there thats for sure.
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: bluekayak on May 25, 2009, 09:49:17 PM
I bet some of the industrial fishing ops could give a shit between catch and bycatch

It's all fish and it's all money
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: calbear on May 25, 2009, 11:49:41 PM
I'm pretty sure I've seen sculpin as a Alaskan crab by-catch
Title: Re: Bering Sea Bycatch
Post by: InSeine on May 30, 2009, 09:30:27 AM
The Gulf Coast shrimp trawlers catch 5lbs of bycatch for every 1lb of shrimp.