August 2010 Commercial Fisheries News - The Northeast's Fishing Newspaper for over 36 years

Fishermen help locate, tag SNE winter flounder

NEW BEDFORD, MA – Commercial fishermen with years of experience in the Great South Channel are helping scientists this summer track down, measure, and tag winter flounder to obtain better information about overall stock abundance and distribution.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) is overseeing the industry-based survey, and five prominent New Bedford-based fishing vessels are participating in the work – Seel, Sasha Lee, Sea Siren, Iberia II, and United States.

Barring complications, each vessel will make one, 10-day trip during an assigned month from June through October when winter flounder historically have been found throughout the Great South Channel. Many fishermen who work this bottom refer to the fish as “channel blackbacks.” ...continued

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