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#1010521 - 06/15/19 07:42 PM Anchovie boom in Puget Sound
BARCHASER Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 04/22/12
Posts: 186
Loc: Bothell
Anybody else see this on Ch 7? I've been fishing PS since I moved to Seattle in 1980. But I've never heard a word about Anchovies around here. Sounds good to me. Anything that improves the bio mass is good. Blackmouth should love the things.

https://www.kiro7.com/amp/news/south-sou...orcas/958357723

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#1010522 - 06/15/19 08:08 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7413
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
Folks have been telling me about anchovy in PS for a couple decades. May, perhaps, be good. But, in a quick look, they are not as nutritionally dense as herring. A stomach full of anchovy is not as good as a stomach full of herring. But it beats an empty stomach.

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#1010523 - 06/15/19 09:05 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 10/22/09
Posts: 3020
Loc: University Place and Whidbey I...
Not too long ago I read a piece which suggested that large amounts of forage fish might take some predatory (think pinnipeds) pressure off out migrating salmonids.

(But watch out when that biomass of forage fish drops precipitously and 19,000 or more very hungry seals go looking for a meal)
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#1010524 - 06/15/19 09:42 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7413
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
That will work if the pinnipeds can/will switch. But, again, the quality of the fish will be important. Up in AK, fisheries forced Steller's Sealions to shift to less nutrient dense fish. They got smaller.

I believe that sea lions, at least down here, favored and concentrated on lamprey as the preferred food. By eliminating lamprey, we made them switch.

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#1010538 - 06/16/19 02:06 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
Chip Goodhue Offline
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Registered: 06/29/00
Posts: 439
Loc: Kitsap County
Inner Eagle Harbor was full of them around 10 years ago in January. BM were nuts for them, I limited regularly casting jigs off the dock at the marina, or live lining an anchovy off the back of my slip. Never started the engine for a month, and have never seen them back since.

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#1010539 - 06/16/19 03:18 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 04/25/00
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Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...

Don't let the commercial fleet in on this anchovies fishery, while probably not the best feed, it never the less, is a feed.
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#1010541 - 06/16/19 05:06 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: DrifterWA]
eddie Offline
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Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 2432
Loc: Valencia, Negros Oriental, Phi...
Originally Posted By: DrifterWA

Don't let the commercial fleet in on this anchovies fishery, while probably not the best feed, it never the less, is a feed.

Two thumbs up!


Edited by eddie (06/16/19 05:08 PM)
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#1010543 - 06/16/19 05:59 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
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Registered: 12/11/02
Posts: 5205
Loc: Carkeek Park
I saw one of the best searun cutthroat feeding sprees on anchovies on southern Hood Canal a few years ago.
Cutts were spraying bait everywhere. It was pretty impressive and the anchovies were a few different sizes.
Some where so small they almost looked transparent with only a redistribution orange dot where their gills where.
I’m glad I got some video of it.
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#1010545 - 06/16/19 07:24 PM Re: Anchovie boom in Puget Sound [Re: BARCHASER]
Capt Downriggin' Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 05/18/05
Posts: 303
Loc: Rogue River
Anchovies in the South Sound have been around a lot longer than what the journalist writes. Checking my journals I have logged at least 1996 as the earliest I've encountered them.

Hood Canal has encountered for years, but little is mentioned of them.

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