Nothing worse than trying to salvage my favorite jig from the mouth of a doggie while bobbing up in down in my kayak...
but dogfish are pretty interesting creatures. While they make up a huge percentage of the Puget Sound biomass (most likely second to ratfish), they are susceptible to fishing pressure. Females can take up to 25 years to reach sexual maturity, and then they only have an average of six pups every two years... and you thought rockfish had a slow reproduction rate!
Anyway, something to think about next time you want to conk one for no reason… but if you do kill ‘em, why not fry them up. If any of you head over to England and have fish and chips, chances are you’re eating doggie! (Probably harvested off the US Atlantic Coast, but also a possibility it came from your backyard here in the Sound).