Cool, what a great trip you guys had. I wish I could have gone. I really
like Native Killies so I would have taken some home with me if I was there.
That dead body in the water is really gross. I hope to go collecting this
summer in the MD/VA/PA area with some NANFA people.
Thanks,
Henry Deford
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard J Rego" <newzoo_at_juno.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 3:31 PM
Subject: NANFA-- MA Collecting Trip
> Hi folks,
>
> Just a note to tell all of you about a recent collecting trip. Myself
> (Rick Rego, MA NANFA Rep.) and NANFA member Brian Bastarache headed out
> to Cape Cod and the vicinity to do some dip netting and seining. We met
> a the Bristol County Nature Center at 8:30 am last Sunday (ya' I know,
> this is a week old!), from there we headed straight out to Falmouth/Woods
> Hole (Home of the famous Marine Biological Lab and the Woods Hole
> Oceanographic Inst.). We collected in a little river that leads from
> Oyster Pond out to the ocean. We caught lot's of Sheepshead Minnows
> (Cyprinodon variegatus), Mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus), Striped
> Killies (F. majalis) and Rainwater Killies (Lucania parva). After we
> were done there, we headed out to Sandwich at the east end of the Cape
> Cod Canal. We were in search of Rock Gunnel's (Pholis gunnellus). I
> remembered collecting them there back in the late eighties's while
> tipping over exposed rocks at low tide. So we went about tipping, and
> only found one. Then we decided to wade out into the shallow water of
> this section of Cape Cod Bay to dip net in the rock weed along the
> bottom. The water here is so cold, that your bones immediately ache as
> soon as your in the water. My knee caps were numb. Well after dipping
> in the weed awhile, we hit the mother lode on Rock Gunnels. We caught
> about 30 of them. We also caught lot's of Grubby's (Myoxocephalus
> aenaeus), some big Northern Pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus), a few Cunners
> (Tautogolabrus adspersus), and the highlight of the trip, a juvenile
> Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus).
> We had a great time at the canal entrance, even though the Coast Guard
> boat just offshore from where we were collecting was picking up a dead
> body that floated out from the canal! Maybe that's why the collecting
> was so good...CHUM! (just join', that's gross). The rest of the day
> included a dip in the waters around the nuclear plant in Plymouth, a
> seine drag on West Island in Fairhaven, and a drag of the seine in the
> Little River in Dartmouth. The little River has always turned up lot's
> of neat species. Though on this trip we only caught Mummichogs, Blue
> Crabs, and Spider Crabs.
> Just figured you'd folks would like to hear about what's going on up
> here in sunny New England.
>
> Rick Rego
> MA NANFA Rep.
>
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