Hello NANFA. I joined last November and definitely should’ve said hello earlier. I have corresponded with NANFA Midwest and went to a NANFA trip last month in Tennessee with Casper and others. That is an amazing place for fish.

Back here, I have a great fish summer gig going on. Tuesdays through Fridays, I seine Sakonnet Beach in Middletown. Then, at the beach, for the second summer, I have opened up a small aquarium (eight saltwater, three freshwater tanks up to 50-gallons) This is with the Norman Bird Sanctuary Summer Camp. The campers help seine and keep the tanks going.

Tropicals strays came early this year, so I am sitting on about 30 Northern puffers, 20 Northern kingfish, 4 permit, and a crevalle jack. I throw dozens of kingfish back in. Anyone want some? We are just getting starting and have one more month of near daily seining.

I am trying to learn about freshwater fish, that is why I joined NANFA. I have a RI collectors permit and a blogspot- “2012 Fish Big Year.”

So an invitation if anyone wants to come down and visit, go seining, snorkeling, offshore, etc - this is New England tropical stray paradise here, hope to hear from you.

CharlesA
Newport,RI

Welcome to the Forum. I suspected that tropical erratics would arrive earlier and in greater numbers in New England this year.

Hi Charles,

Rick Rego here, not far from you (Swansea, MA). Please email me so we can get out and do some collecting! fundulus@comcast.net

Welcome to the forum. Those are some interesting fishes. The sea robin is cool. I snorkeled with one in FL a few years ago. It was really cool getting it to 'walk' across my hand. It seems like they would be neat in the aquarium.