Seining

I knew about seining in the sense that some fishing boats use seining nets to catch large amounts of fish indiscriminately. We used a long net and rowboats to set the seining net and then a large group of us pulled the ends of the net to shore as they were attached to long ropes that we had access to on shore. As we pulled the ropes in, the net came to shore, and the net was filled with tons and tons of sea creatures. We caught a ton of fishes: Platichthys stellatus, Ophiodon elongatus, Myoxycephalus polyacanthocephalus, Blepsias cirrhosus, Lepidopsetta bilineata, Enophrys bison, Hexagrammos stelleri, Aulorhynchus flavidus, Embiotica lateralis, Pholis Laeta, Pholis ornata, Cymatogaster aggregata, Psychrolutes paradoxus, Eumicrotremus orbis, Lepticottus armatus, Liparis dennyi, Liparis florae, Appodichthys flavidus, Syngnathus leptorhynchus, Oligocottus maculosus, Gadus microcephalus, Hexagrammos decagrammos, Artedius harringtoni, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus as well as many many shrimps and crabs. There are many more fish in the sound than I knew where there, and most of these I had never even heard of before. It was a very rewarding and enriching experience to observe and collect so many species of fish.

Posted on December 2, 2012 03:26 AM by bncantrell