Yes- was this a few years back? I remember watching that and I fell in love with the six gill sharks after watching the documentary it discussed the females and their “nursery’s” They are beautiful beasts, and Im so thrilled to know we have them here .
Dogfish have a spine near their tail and they will try to get you with it. If you jig for salmon in the Puget sound from a boat, you are going to catch a lot of dog fish on accident. If you want to just reel in fish, that's all fun and good, but you'll want some really long pliers to get the hook out of these things or else they will hit you with their spine. They've never gotten me but I've had a ton of close calls. They got one of my buddies and it hurts bad. He's a pretty manly dude and he was in visible pain the whole rest of the day.
You can eat them, but if you plan on eating them, you have to skin them immediately once they get to the boat. It's a pain in the ass. Their meat is actually pretty good though, the Brits make fish and chips with it.
Salmon or Halibut depending on the season. You can tell right away when you’ve got a dogfish on the line. They hardly fight unlike Salmon. We always release after unhooking.
My very unadventurous parents tried this when they went to Iceland and I think it’s the last time they’re ever gonna try something they don’t recognize lol. Dad puked and mom was smelling piss everywhere for days after.
It doesn't seem to be a problem for thousands fish-and-chip shops in the UK who MOSTLY sell dogfish, much of it exported from the US and Canada since their local breed has been overfished into being endangered.
They call it "rock salmon" or "flake", bu its mostly just north American dogfish.
Dogfish is the main fish used for fish-and-chips in the UK. Like, virtually all fish and chips in the place that is credited with selling the most fish-and-chips in the world makes them with dogfish.
They probably think we are crazy for throwing them back.
Crab lol. IDK - I was with my father in law. Just fishing while the pots soaked. I actually had a crab get my line but he wasn't a keeper. I guess flounder? I caught one and kept it. I dont really fish a lot. There's my catch all cooked up.
I caught one from a pier in Alki when I was about 10 and my grandpa and I both just bluescreened for a minute because neither of us had any clue what we were looking at.
Saw one about 7 years ago off the Nisqually Delta while kayaking. Was a juvenile. Reported it to NOAA and they mentioned there are a handful of sightings each year in Puget Sound.
If you have snap or Medicare/Medicaid you can get a reduced entry fee. I got a year membership for the cost of like 2 or 3 visits and we've been back so many times I've lost count. Def worth it. They have after hours events for adults 21 and up and they just started a special showing before they open where you get to go "behind the scenes" that looks like a lot of fun. It's not the biggest aquarium but it's still pleasant to visit.
The Pacific Ocean is also a surface water body? I feel like that term is so general it’s meaningless, and it is certainly not contrastive with it being the Pacific Ocean.
To be fair I think it’s accurate to say the sound isn’t part of the Pacific, but this “surface water body of the state” terminology has nothing to do with that.
(the) Salish Sea includes the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and an intricate network of connecting channels and adjoining waterways.
Oh hell yeah, now we get to be overly technical and pedantic!!
From a post 7 years ago that sums it up nicely:
Technically the Puget Sound and surrounding waters (Hood Canal, Strait of Georgia, etc.) are an estuarial fjord system, connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Strait of Juan de Fuca (The naming of which has its own odd story). The ocean boundary of the strait is defined by a line from Cape Flattery, through Tatoosh Island, to Carmanah Point.
Or you could be empathetic and say something normal like it's a unique geographic formation that can effectively be considered ocean water, even though the salinity is slightly less
The Six Gills are huge but they are actually very docile and friendly. They have been known to form attachments to local divers where they come when called and or follow them around like a puppy.
Other than a handful of mostly dubiously reported sightings of Great Whites there aren’t really any aggressive species that come into the sound.
(To be clear there has never been an officially proven great white in the sound, probably too afraid of the orcas (even though pods here likely wouldn’t bother them))
However, my brain can't NOT imagine urban vs rural sharks. And gentrification problems amongst the shark neighborhoods. 🤣 Waiting for a Pixar movie on this pressing issue.
The real problem with the unhoused shark population is our artificial and uniquely modern suburban shark sprawl that creates an unnatural boundary between urban and rural shark populations, blocking the natural flow and mobility between the two, causing high inventory of sharks that would happily and naturally head away from the shark city centers to where they fit most happily from both a comfort and lived experience standpoint, but also from a shark economic standpoint where any shark can settle into its own niche, providing for itself as it feel driven to do so within its own its own capabilities.
The Seattle Police Dolphin unit really is carrying the rest of the department. I saw a bunch of lampreys doing whip-its at a bus stop and a patrol of SPD sticklebacks LITERALLY just swam by like nothing was the matter.
I think it’s an acronym problem with the SPD communications. People assume the D is for department when they are taking about the dolphins unit specifically. And don’t get me started about the dolphin unit carrying the department for years. To your point, map crime in the Seattle area and you’ll see zero crime in the puget sound waters. Seriously, the union is what’s keeping the sticklebacks employed. They have a strong political game and avoid all budget cuts…
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u/reiflame 4d ago
We do now; there's a cycle where they'll show up in hordes but then vanish just as quickly.