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Great
job with the website, I look forward to seeing more content in the future.
I just read a great book that was published in the 80s, called
Hunting for the Pot Fishing for the Pan. It talked about how to take
advantage of under utilized species. Many of those species are seen
as garbage fish, at least in some part of the country. It amazes me
how in one region a species can be targeted as a prime food fish, and
in others they are just trash fish. Have you considered expanding your
target audience to salt water around the country? What about fresh water
species too? I will probably order a couple of stickers and maybe a
skate flag in the next few days. Your sea robin flag looks like our
Sculpins. And we have a species of shark called the spiny dogfish.
Your site has inspired a Trash Fish Derby up here in Alaska. I do not know if the original poster has contacted you, but I like the idea. There are several trash fish that are extremely tasty but when caught are thrown back out of ignorance. Some charter boat captains in this state who fish for halibut and catch a skate will kill it and throw it back. I find this a horrible waste of delicious, and in other countries expensive, food. I proposed that we have a trash fish cook-off to give examples of recipes that can exhibit the quality of the fishes table fare. I have no doubt that these will never be the prime species targeted by anglers, but if anglers can fill their freezers with both target and trash species it will take some pressure off of the target species, while at the same time harvesting both predator and prey evenly. http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php?t=48151
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