Bycatch?.
 

So I head out after this morning rain with the wife , get to 3rd beach and enough birds to make a horror movie .. no bones mostly blues with some small bass mixed in..

So heading home get north of sakonnet bridge I see this trail of small fish. Peanut bunker I think.. a closer look and I see they are all small Squeteague and I dont know the silver dollar looking ones might be a lockdown fish? iam talking hundreds of them .. what would drag a net that small in the bay in August.. ? Mantis shrimp

Wayne, what an awesome report. You know how often that would happen.

1st time I've ever seen this .. in the river

Wow! Some squetties in Narragansett Bay! Great report! Have done
great fishing for them down in New Jersey, not up here. Supposedly they like to hang around Warwick neck. Would sure like to go down and catch some.

Hq2 they are mostly caught in search of something else / not like before .

those are all small fish ,they look like more of a oxagen [sp] kill .
when I see a dragger drop .its almost always 9 10" Scup & under . some of these fish don,t float for long from a dragger .where he they could have time to dry out & the float on the tide .
just my I opinion ><

That’s a fish kill
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Yeah, but it shows there’s something there. Maybe some bigger ones are down there too. We can only hope.
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I catch a couple in my minnow traps . followed my fluke, sea bass & tautog & always somethink I don,t know :claps:

nice small eels

Was thinking the same thing fish kill at 1st except the location it was from the new boat ramp under the bridge and just past the rail road bridge and in separate groups like washed overboard 3 diffrent spots and there are small dragers who work of the docks close to where this fish were. . All.so no other fish were present no choggies no peanut bunker ? And its deep water 40 50 ft no grass areas were you would expect them to hang out. I dont know just odd only 2 species??
Id report to environmental in RI not sure if their interested.. but there was some funky brown water even farther North but no dead fish. mysterious
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Correct.
Fish kills.

Several have been reported from the upper Bay

Alright ..Clammer got one right ><><>:claps:

Do fish kills only kill 2 species of Fish ? I guess the kill could only be a part of the water column .. that's why I find curious about what I found . Thoughts?

Maybe a larger species would drift? Float? Swim away? differently...
I dun no....