I have a question

Giorgio

Giorgio

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I love Black fishing - I love eating Black fish - When Black fish season opens, it's crazy - Had to order your crabs in advance - Everyone is fishing for them - So here is the 64 thousand dollar question, that no one can answer right now - Even the guy's I know selling fish - Why is it we can't buy Black fish in the stores that sell
fish - The only place we can get it, is in the Asian stores that sell them alive - I see them in China Town, in the dirty tanks - There is no American market here for Black fish - When I was Black Fishing, the Asians would come down to the marina and try to buy our fish - They wanted small ILLEGAL fish, alive - There was one boat who would sell them, until they got caught - The boat and the Asians - But they still came around, but they wanted just the legal size, up to 18", nothing bigger - The thing that kicked me in the ass was - These guys' had a commercial license, they were allowed, I think it was 25 fish each for the day - So all they got was a fine and that was it - I felt their license should've been taken away - Sorry I got off topic - If anyone has a reasonable answer to the Black fish question - Throw it out there - I was going to add this to Steps post in Fishing - I wasn't sure if I should go there - Thanks - G
 
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)well your right about the Asian /Chinese food markets. I do see them alive in tanks for sale. Why are they not for sale in a r3gular seafood market? I don’t know. I guess it’s like ling, you don’t see them in markets either. So what you have to do is catch them yourself. I thought you were going to ask. Why can’t I find fiddler crabs for sale anymore.
Getting back to your first question is that they would have to have somebody to supply the blackfish to them and they c@n only be caught on rod and reel. You can’t drag a net and catch them. I don’t think you can.
 
Step, you can't drag nets, they would lose them or come back all torn up, they use traps/pots - Like those hotel crab traps - They throw hundreds of them in Jamaica Bay - We were in the creek one day and we watched this guy pull up trap after trap, we counted 50 when we stopped - They were around all the wrecks and structure - So, I think there is a market for them, but it's not American, it's Asian - Throwing those pots in enclosed areas like the bays and creeks, should be illegal - Their illegal around most of the reefs and they're in the ocean - What we need are more officers paroling at night, because that's when they go out to pull up their pots -That's why it's hard for us recreational fisherman to catch keepers in these places any more , they are all gone - This is an example of what I'm talking about -
- Maybe I'm the wrong one bitching about this, since i don't fish any longer - It always pissed me off - 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇺🇸
 

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Commercial guy by me used to drag a rock hopper for black fish but that got expensive, guy next to him used rod n reel, Chinese would come down from the city w live wells and cash, black fish was a hot item
 
Black Sea Bass? Seafood place in Sneads Ferry sells them, not exactly cheap especially knowing how many I've caught in my life time. I'd go fishing for them regularly if I had the range. SCDNR had a booklet about BSB, said the size of the fish is directly relevant to the depth of water(as they get older, they move to deeper water). explains why I always catch undersize ones, need to get to 50+ feet of water to really get the big ones( above legal size). My Seahunt is too small for that trip. They are good eating
 
No spare not black sea bass. Black fish aka tautog. It’s a different species but talk about prices? I was in a Chinese fruit market that has a fish section. Fluke $12.99 a pound whole so if you but a 3 pound fluke whole your talking almost $40.00 for one fish. After you fillet it you might have a pound and a half of meat. Maybe. That’s nuts
 
steplift20 said:
No spare not black sea bass. Black fish aka tautog. It’s a different species but talk about prices? I was in a Chinese fruit market that has a fish section. Fluke $12.99 a pound whole so if you but a 3 pound fluke whole your talking almost $40.00 for one fish. After you fillet it you might have a pound and a half of meat. Maybe. That’s nuts
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we get Togs down here from time to time, kinda rare, I have not seen any in a fish market.
 
We get them up here in New York and New Jersey and you only see them for sale live in Asian markets. You never see them on ice in markets.
You go to a supermarket and go to the large fish s3ction and you don5 see tautogs. Only in Asian markets. They want them live. And they pay. I really don’t know why. Just like ling,you never see them for sale in markets only the fisherman who catches them have them,and they are delicious I don’t no why.
 
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