Coldwater Northwest Atlantic Tank

flying_dutchman said:
Do you work there? Why are these fish caught, they don't look very edible to me :lol:
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Some of those fish are GREAT ! Monkfish is called poor mans lobster. Many cold water species are very light and delicate if prepared properly...

Look what I do for a living...:eek1: I couldnt have a coldwater tank... all the stock would end up in a sautee pan !

Edit: profession used to show up. Now it doesn't... I'm a Chef by Profession
 
Henry Bowman said:
Some of those fish are GREAT ! Monkfish is called poor mans lobster. Many cold water species are very light and delicate if prepared properly...

Look what I do for a living...:eek1: I couldnt have a coldwater tank... all the stock would end up in a sautee pan !
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I heard that on the trip about monkfish and i couldn't believe it! Poor man's lobster lol, there was a person on the boat from Germany who was doing his PHd and he told me that its a common fish in europe, pretty rare around here given we only pulled up one specimen in 28 days of trawling!
 
sjreefer said:
Deepwater - Monkfish from the laurentian chanel

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3983757145/" title="44 Monkfish by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3525/3983757145_6db876401a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="44 Monkfish" /></a>
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you should put him in your tank =)
 
What a neat thread with a ton of pictures we never see. In this one picture, what are the orange things that look like noodles? Starfish or some type of crab/shrimp?
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Thanks Melev - Thats a mixture of shrimp (i think there was four species in this haul) and small fish (daubed shanny's and snakeblennies) Everything has to be picked through and seperated by species, its alot of work but pretty intresting

Zestay - Someday.. it was a very impressive fish, i have a picture somewhere of him with a white hake in its mouth, it snapped it up pretty quick.
 
Brittle stars anyone? This is the amount we pulled up in one 30 minute trawl, it was a huge pain to pick everyone of them out!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3986937118/" title="Brittle Stars by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/3986937118_9aea16a6e8.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Brittle Stars" /></a>

These guys are my favorites, atlantic spiny lumpsuckers

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3986936990/" title="Lumpsuckers by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/3986936990_94a4026ba3.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Lumpsuckers" /></a>
 
That lumpsucker fish looks like some kind of pokemon. Too bad you couldn't bring one alive back with you to keep in your tank. What do they do with all these fish after they're sorted?
 
It depends, the fish that have regulated fisheries on them are sampled in detail to asses population health, age and reproductive status. The other ones are measured, weighed and returned to the ocean.

The lumpsuckers can be found in depths under 100ft so there is a possibility that i may be able to collect one while diving, unfortunately during this trip i didn't have the means to keep them alive and get them back to the tank.
 
Finally!!!

I was able to get ahold of someone at the DFO who could issue me a permit for what i will be doing, there is a charge to collect species which i don't mind paying (i'm still waiting for the details on this) and it will entitle me to collect for educational or display purposes all the species i want with the exception of lobster (which i don't mind since i don't want them in the tank anymore after the carnage the little guy i had caused)

So just for all those who were interested it is possible to obtain a permit to do this, i'll post more once they check my list of species, and pay the fee.
 
Actually i just heard from a crew that went out and dove saturday morning and they saw lumpsuckers and a lumpfish! I'm going out thursday night to the same dive site and my fingers are crossed!
 
sjreefer said:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3986936990/" title="Lumpsuckers by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/3986936990_94a4026ba3.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Lumpsuckers" /></a>
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Are these Eumicrotremus spinosus? How big are they? They are some crazy little fish.
 
What a night I had collecting last night!

We did the Beaver Harbour dive site last night, which wasn't my preferred location but there were four other guys going on the dive and it was the closest so we opted for that site.

First off the surge was rough and made the dive a trial for getting around and poor vis. Once we got in the vis was so bad (a bad combination on a night dive when its pitch black) we ended up getting separated twice and having to surface to find the rest of the group. Then the string holding my net broke, so I lost that at the start of the dive, and I see a beautiful sea raven that was a perfect size to collect after I lost it. My knife clip broke too and I ended up losing that on the dive as well. Worst of all, I had found an awesome northern red anemone on the dive attached to a small rock. It was too large to fit in my collection container so we carried the rock around the whole time. When we surfaced at the end of the dive my dive partner was going to bring it up while I carried the collection tubs and he dropped it in the water while he was taking his fins off and didn't tell me until we had walked all the way back up the beach (quite a trek) and by the time I got back it was gone!.

All that said I did end up collecting a few cool specimens, on this trip I was able to get:

Three blood stars
One purple star
One very small (5.52 cm) sculpin
One green crab
One Acadian hermit cran
Five small urchins
A few dozen periwinkles

I am uploading some pics and I should be able to add them soon, this is the first one I pulled off the camera of my cat investigating the catch.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3995768785/" title="44 Emma with Catch by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2454/3995768785_850700f720.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="44 Emma with Catch" /></a>

More to come..
 
Urchins.

These guys are so much more active then i gave them credit for, the instant they hit the tank they were motoring around with their tentacles out and swinging around. I picked small ones because some of them are HUGE

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3996526534/" title="47 Urchins by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3996526534_ed4563a10a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="47 Urchins" /></a>

Sculpin

This guy is pretty tiny, and its too hard to ID him but i am going to assume he is a shorthorn because the opercular spines look to be all about the same size.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3995776225/" title="51 Sculpin by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2543/3995776225_ec665902e4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="51 Sculpin" /></a>

Again but a bit bigger

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3996527986/" title="52 Sculpin by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3996527986_25237a9bb0.jpg" width="500" height="310" alt="52 Sculpin" /></a>

Green crab

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37325244@N05/3996535348/" title="51 Green crab by markmcg84, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3996535348_8959473016.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="51 Green crab" /></a>
 
Melev - Your right about that, the surge on these rocky beaches can be a nightmare when your trying to navigate and get in /out we were pretty lucky. Its hard on gear too!
 
Nice underwater pics sjreefer! :bounce3: Looking forward to more and seeing pics of the tank progression.

Bradley
 
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