I've caught these guys fishing offshore, but from a floating dock with a dipnet is definitely a first for me. You gotta love hard and persistent onshore winds!
Common Dolphin - Coryphaena hippurus
Posted 20 May 2015 - 09:26 PM
It looks pretty small. Little baby?
Nice catch!
Yes, sorry for the lack of details, I wrote that post deliriously tired at one in the morning. It is about 3 Inches in length, and given their incredible growth rate, must be very young. I caught a number of other fishes on that dock that I have yet to identify, mainly due to them all being juveniles blown in from offshore. A few jacks, and a serranid of some sort were in the mix as well. It was a surprising trip for sure!
Posted 21 May 2015 - 09:32 AM
Do you have access to W.J.Richards' Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes?
I caught a number of other fishes on that dock that I have yet to identify, mainly due to them all being juveniles blown in from offshore. A few jacks, and a serranid of some sort were in the mix as well. It was a surprising trip for sure!
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
Posted 21 May 2015 - 01:50 PM
Do you have access to W.J.Richards' Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes?
Gerald,
I was wondering why you said "access", seemed like an odd word for owning a book. But then a quick google search showed a $400-$632 price tag, and all of the sudden "access" made perfect sense!
Thanks for the lead, I'm going to check our library in the morning.
Here is a quick and mostly unedited shot of one of the possible serranids (Keep in mind I used a macro lens, this is a really small fish):
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