Only my fish nerd friend could have found this video and shared it with me. I mean, the swaths of lingcod and anemone forests and just otherworldly. It’s like these areas and the ones I dive in can’t possibly be part of the same ocean
Thank you for your research and work. Fishing for these species is a past time for my family and I. And I want it to last for many generations to come.
While beach fishing I have caught Halibut that will strike a jig as waves are braking right on top of the jig where I would never of thought they would strike. They are ferocious hunters and will strike the surface.
Almost 50 years ago I lived in Alaska. The minimum size for a keeper halibut was 32”. We fished for fun on Saturday and caught tons of lingcod but threw them all back. We just wanted a halibut. Now the halibut are rare and the cod even more overpopulated! To restore the balance of nature we need to eat more lingcod!
Those lingcod stacked up like Lincoln logs..never would have guessed that they gather in such large numbers. Where I've caught them their flesh is a soft turquoise to a deep turquoise. Some are kinda greenish. All are delicious.
That reef is infested with Lingcod . They do have egg nests , though they migrate to shallow where I’m at . You can know where they are , but the period of the bite is short each day . We’ve caught them with a few hundred salmon smolt inside as well as other Lingcod of EQUAL size , folded in half! The Halibut is a mighty foe , they will eat Octopus.
Five Halibut and 1 million Lings! That is by far the most Ling cod that I have ever seen and most looked large. Wouldn't there be more Flatfish around a less rocky area?? Lingmania!
So that's where cauliflower comes from!!! Just kidding. Thanks for a fascinating trip. BTW, the columnar basalt was formed back when this part of the crust was a basaltic flood plain on land.
Very interesting. Please go back and look again at the rockfish that you labeled a “China Rockfish”. I do not see the distinctive yellow stripe of a china rockfish. The broad light colored dorsal spine markings and the height of the dorsal spines look more to me like that of a Quillback rockfish. I am not a scientist or an expert in any way and I understand that identifying markings can vary amongst specific varieties, I am just a fisherman who has caught many China rockfish.
What happens to a fish that is at 450-500' depth and you just yank it straight up to the surface with all the change in pressure, all within a minute or two? Do they go through the fish equivalent of the bends? I've been halibut fishing and when they're finally on the boat, it's not a pleasant end. I imagine being clubbed to on TOP of an immediate pressure change of 15 atmospheres. Not a good day.
I’m not an expert, but I think the main effect is a very distended air bladder. In people scuba diving, the bends comes from nitrogen becoming a gas while in your bloodstream when you ascend from deep water. I don’t think fish have that problem.
If the halibut are still in great numbers then we aren't fishing them hard enough. When they start to go the way of the Yukon king salmon then we know we're headed in the right direction. Humans will ALWAYS take more than the system can handle and examples of that claim are abundant world wide.
