Instead of kneejerk responses to dogfish...

[likwid]

Originally Posted by clambelly

agreed. another factor you left out is that dogfish are eating young cod. with the population of dogfish exploding and the cod stocks struggling to come back, that factor cannot be ignored.

now dogfish eating young cod i have a hard time believing considering they're almost exclusively scavengers.

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by likwid

now dogfish eating young cod i have a hard time believing considering they're almost exclusively scavengers.

I don't know where you get that information, but according to everything I've read and the NMFS/ASMFC studies they are voracious predators.

[likwid]

Got a link to said NMFS studies?

And attempting to save time I did some quick searching and found:

Local gillnet fisherman Dave Marciano said dogfish are vicious predators that compete with cod and other groundfish to eat herring and feed on juvenile cod, creating a nuisance for fishermen. Dogfish often clog his nets or eat groundfish caught in them, he said.

"They didn't get this abundant by being docile," he said. "They eat the cod, they eat the cod's food."

Wow, a FISHERMAN said that, not someone working for the NMFS or Woods Hole! Just like Omega Protein said Striped Bass were eating all the menhaden.

[JFigliuolo]

I KNOW they hit live eels. And I do mean HIT, hard.