Tropical Fish in Long Island

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spotfin;2059451; said:
Fish Finder,

What have you caught so far? Caught an interesting fish the other day, will post a pic on monday. I have a good idea what it is.
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oooo i wanna see i wanna see.

This year is one of the better year's that i have had. My numbers from my books so far this year. Please remmy i also keep track of critters i don't keep.

41 spotfin Butterflys
18 For eye Butterflys
48 baby lookdowns
62 sea horses (all returned they are CITIES listed)
38 Blue spotted Clornett fish
8 banddtail puffers
1 alantic blue tang
3 doctor tangs
2 baby cobia
100+ pipe fish
1 african pappano
1 baby short big eye
100+ pilot fish
46 permit
16 orange file fish
27 pigmy file fish
100+ groupers
19 snowy groupers
51 lionfish
74 spiny box puffers
 
WOW!!!! That is awesome! Is the number of lionfish high this year as well?
 
no so far this year the lionfish have been less then last years numbers to date. But still more then we really want swimming around in our watters. How about u? What have u caught?
 
This is the fish we caught last week. Unfortunately it died. Most of the color is gone in the picture. It had bright yellow across its back that faded to white/silver towards the belly region, with several black, vertical bars. Any idea what it is????

We conduct a seine survey on the tidal section of a large river here in Maine. Most of our sites are in the freshwater/estuary sections of the river. The site where this fish was caught is our lower most (closest to the ocean) site.

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The name escapes me. I catch millions of them though. I know there in the jack family. Ill find my list of all the jack's found in our waters. Hopefully it will help you out in iding him. A lot of people call them golden pilot fish but u and i know that's a made up name.
 
Yes, it is a jack. When I first saw it, I thought it was a pilot fish as well. Closer examination ruled a pilot fish out. It's a crevalle jack:)
 
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spotfin;2077478; said:
Yes, it is a jack. When I first saw it, I thought it was a pilot fish as well. Closer examination ruled a pilot fish out. It's a crevalle jack:)
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You got it. Here's the list though i promised as well as how common the fish are to NY waters during the summer. Would you like me to start a new thread with all the spices listed? I may have missed one here or there on my whole list but posting it may help me finish it finally.

JACKS
• African pompano (Alectis ciliaris), uncommon
• Yellow jack (Caranx bartholomaei), rare
• Blue runner (Caranx crysos), sometimes common
• Crevalle jack young (Caranx hippos), common-summer
• Horse-like jack (Caranx latus), rare
• Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus), rare
• Mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus), sometimes common
• Round scad (Decapterus punctatus), sometimes common
• Atlantic moonfish (Selene setapinnis), not uncommon
• Rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata), rare
• Pilotfish (Naucrates ductor), rare
• Leatherjack (Oligoplites saurus), uncommon
• Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), not uncommon
• Lookdown (Selene vomer), not uncommon
• Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili), uncommon
• Lesser amberjack (Seriola fasciata), rare
• Banded rudderfish (Seriola zonata), common
• Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), not uncommon
• Permit (Trichanotus falcatus), young are common on sandy shores near the inlets on the south shore in late summer
• Palometa (Trachinotus goodei), rare
• Rough scad (Trachurus lathami), not uncommon
 
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