Who here collect's there own fish

[The Fish Finder]

I have been a collector of alantic fish for the last 5 years. I have caught many fish over the years and every year i still get :eek2: that i catch something different that i never thought in a million year i would ever catch here. I have even caught school's of threadfin popano. Dose anyone else here collect fish from there local alantic waters? Here is a list of the most of the fish i have caught over the last 5 years.


SURGEONFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Blue tang (Acanthurus coeruleus)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Ocean surgeon (Acanthurus bahianus)
BIGEYES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Short bigeye (Pristigenys alta)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Bigeye (Priacanthus arenatus)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Glasseye snapper (Priacanthus cruentatus)
SEA BASSES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Snowy grouper (Epinephelus niveatus)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Gag (Mycteroperca microlepis)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Red grouper (Epinephelus morio)
SPADEFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
PARROTFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Redfin parrotfish (Sparisoma rubripinne)
JACKS
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Permit (Trichanotus falcatus)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Lookdown (Selene vomer)
BARRACUDAS
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Northern sennet (Sphyraena borealis)
BOARFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Deepbody boarfish (Antigonia capros)
FLYING GURNARDS
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)
SCORPIONFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Spotted scorpionfish (Scorpaena plumieri)
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
TRUMPETFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus)
SQUIRRELFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Squirrelfish (Holocentrus adscensionis)
LIZARD FISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens)
GOOSEFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Goosefish (Lophius americanus)
FROGFISHES
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Sargassumfish (Histrio histrio)
DOGFISH SHARKS
ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¢ Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

 

[michindi]

What does a person need in order to be able to collect fish from the wild?

 

[hot4teacher]

cyanide!

OMG! I was kidding! This stuff should have been outlawed years ago!

 

[fishfanv]

i think paul b collects his fish. he's the one that has the amazing 35-year old reef tank.

 

[Blazer88]

There is a guy on a different forum that lives in the Bahama's and collects his own fish. He has caught some cool Angels and such. There isn't anything in the Seattle waters that I would want in my tank

 

[B Pierce]

The Fish Finder, Got any pics of the fish you collect?

When I was in Florida on vacation I caught a french angle. Thats about it. :lol:

Bill

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7040347#post7040347 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by michindi
What does a person need in order to be able to collect fish from the wild?

There are many different way's that you can collect fish. All the fish i collect are net collected eather from the man made reef's along the beach or diving about 1 mile off of RM beach.

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7041346#post7041346 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by B Pierce
The Fish Finder, Got any pics of the fish you collect?

When I was in Florida on vacation I caught a french angle. Thats about it. :lol:

Bill

Sure here are some pic's

In my display tank now i have two alantic blue tang's and a shortbig eye that i caught this past summer

Here are pic's of baby shortbig eye's and a snowy grouper i caught (the snaper was given to me for a trade for a shortbig eye)

One of my last catches of the season last year orange spotted filefish.

Here is the pic of the coda (that's what i was told it's called sometime's called fals remora) in the bottom of the pic is a rambow runner. Anyone have any idea what the middle fish is i never got a id of him.

What everyone get's Spotfin butterfly's

Here are some seahorses that were collected for a captive breeding program once they gave bith to the fry and were eating good after the birth they were retruned to where they were collected.

A pic of one batch of seahorse fry

Baby lookdown's

Threadfinn popano

 

[michindi]

The fish finder...You dont need a license or anything like that?

 

[The Fish Finder]

not in ny since these fish arent native to NY there are brought here by the gulf streem and will die once the water get's to cold. Ive been to FL collecting a few time's but it's such a pain to get the license there.

 

[Torno]

cyanide!

:lol: :lol: omg that made me laugh for some reason.

I want to collect my own fish!!!! :mixed: :rollface:

 

[Fishfreak218]

i caught 3 Baby (im talkin like 1") threadfin pompano (aka lookdown fish) ... they were swiiming by near a rock structure and i just scooped them up with a net..i was only like young though and i wasnt into fish.. they went right back into the ocean

 

[RGBMatt]

I catch my own fish. So far, I am proud to say that all of the fish I've ever kept in my aquarium have been self-caught.

The list of species I've caught is probably too big to post and I'm sure I don't remember all of it. In Hawaii, we're lucky to have a lot to choose from!

Here's a pic of a flame angel I caught a few months ago:

 

[SerranidTerror]

I used to collect in Hawaii myself. In Hawaii you do need a collecting permit. You can either get a aquarium license which is free (and limits you to a few specimens of anything a day) or you can get a commercial license which costs 50 bucks and requires you file a catch report every month (but no limits)

I call BS on catching a flame angel off Oahu unless you work for coral fish hawaii. I dove out there for 5 years and never saw a single one. Coral Fish Hawaii has a honey hole or two for those but they also dive nitrox so I know they are pulling those flames from real deep around there. Just my two cents.

 

[ManEatingGuppy]

hmm, pretty interesting. were do u go to collect fish at hawaii? can u take the fish back home or it just stays in hawaii?

 

[Kinetic]

that's a really nice flame angel.

If i wanted a fish, could I ask one of you to catch one for me at your earliest convenience and then pay you for your troubles? Just wondering =)

 

[The Fish Finder]

hey if anyone in hawaii can catch DME i would love to see a pic of one you caught

 

[sunfishh]

Fish Finder you are living the life. You have 60 fish tanks and you're catching your own fish. I am beyond impressed

 

[JHemdal]

Hi Fishfinder - I had two questions.

You wrote, "One of my last catches of the season last year orange spotted filefish."

I've been collecting data on exotic fish releases (which this obviously would be). Can you tell me what time of year you caught this? Also, I just finished an article on filefish for AFM and was curious if this one that you caught lived any better for you in terms of eating than the typical ones imported from the Pacific (It looks pretty fat in the photo, and I don't imagine there was much Acropora coral for it to feed on off LI).

My other question was about the boarfish you collected - size, how deep, etc.

Thanks,

Jay Hemdal

 

[Paul B]

Fishfinder, very impressive. I am also in Long Island and have been diveing here since the early seventees but I never saw a lookdown or orange spotter filefish. Where did you find them? I have collected a lot of butterflies, seahorses, brown filefish, needlefish, pipefish etc but I would love to find lookdowns. Of course I saw a lot of them in the Caribbean. As a matter of fact on St. Lucia, they sell them for $2.00 a lb. to eat.
Paul