I have a question

[Giorgio]

I love Black fishing - I love eating Black fish - When Black fish season opens, it's crazy - Had to order your crabs in advance - Everyone is fishing for them - So here is the 64 thousand dollar question, that no one can answer right now - Even the guy's I know selling fish - Why is it we can't buy Black fish in the stores that sell
fish - The only place we can get it, is in the Asian stores that sell them alive - I see them in China Town, in the dirty tanks - There is no American market here for Black fish - When I was Black Fishing, the Asians would come down to the marina and try to buy our fish - They wanted small ILLEGAL fish, alive - There was one boat who would sell them, until they got caught - The boat and the Asians - But they still came around, but they wanted just the legal size, up to 18", nothing bigger - The thing that kicked me in the ass was - These guys' had a commercial license, they were allowed, I think it was 25 fish each for the day - So all they got was a fine and that was it - I felt their license should've been taken away - Sorry I got off topic - If anyone has a reasonable answer to the Black fish question - Throw it out there - I was going to add this to Steps post in Fishing - I wasn't sure if I should go there - Thanks - G

 

[steplift20]

)well your right about the Asian /Chinese food markets. I do see them alive in tanks for sale. Why are they not for sale in a r3gular seafood market? I don’t know. I guess it’s like ling, you don’t see them in markets either. So what you have to do is catch them yourself. I thought you were going to ask. Why can’t I find fiddler crabs for sale anymore.
Getting back to your first question is that they would have to have somebody to supply the blackfish to them and they c@n only be caught on rod and reel. You can’t drag a net and catch them. I don’t think you can.

 

[Giorgio]

Step, you can't drag nets, they would lose them or come back all torn up, they use traps/pots - Like those hotel crab traps - They throw hundreds of them in Jamaica Bay - We were in the creek one day and we watched this guy pull up trap after trap, we counted 50 when we stopped - They were around all the wrecks and structure - So, I think there is a market for them, but it's not American, it's Asian - Throwing those pots in enclosed areas like the bays and creeks, should be illegal - Their illegal around most of the reefs and they're in the ocean - What we need are more officers paroling at night, because that's when they go out to pull up their pots -That's why it's hard for us recreational fisherman to catch keepers in these places any more , they are all gone - This is an example of what I'm talking about -

- Maybe I'm the wrong one bitching about this, since i don't fish any longer - It always pissed me off -

 

[pickle]

Commercial guy by me used to drag a rock hopper for black fish but that got expensive, guy next to him used rod n reel, Chinese would come down from the city w live wells and cash, black fish was a hot item