Typically in June, there are masses of Sargassum blown and otherwise carried
into the waters of coastal Louisiana. I have also collected the species you
listed plus some small 1"-2" seahorses, but no nudibranchs.....One of the
Sargassumfish was about 6 " long and was not in very good shape so was
immediately released back into the waters of the Gulf, and if anyone knows
Sargassumfish, their mouths can engulf anything that is even larger than the
fish itself!!!!!
Thanks for the update, Andy!
BG
> Today was a perfect day in the Keys, 85 deg, light wind and hot. I drove 8
> miles up the Keys to Boca Chica beach behind the Naval Air Station. (Rego,
> you know the place). The water was churned up from the wind so it wasn't
> clear but the wind had blown in tons of sargassumweed. So I put on my aqua
> shoes and grabbed my dipnet and waded in it was warm 76 deg.
> At first there wasn't much life in the weed just shrimp and
sargassum
> crabs, and a few sargassum nudibranchs. Every piece of plastic and
floating
> bits of wood were covered with goose barnacles. Then I saw a large man of
war
> floating on the surface under it were 5 man of war fish (Nomeus gronovii)
> they live among the stinging tentacles. Beautiful silver and blue. Moving
> further out into deeper water I started to sample the sargassum. Basically
> lifting my dipnet under a floating clump and shaking it out over the net.
> There were sargassumfish (Histrio histrio), one Southern Hake, juvenile
> sergeant majors, filefish, a baby dolphin (fish not mammal),
> sargassum pipefish, juv tripletails and one rough triggerfish.
> A pretty good day despite getting my neck sunburned.
>
> Andy Borgia
>
> Key West,Florida
> PS- would like to hear about more marine collecting. Marine fish are
native
> too!
>
>
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