11-05-2011, 01:45 PM
[quote name='1tym' timestamp='1305075909' post='22227']
Did you know river herring spend most of their lives in coastal waters before traveling up rivers only to spawn?
Did you know sea herring primarily stay offshore and under certain circumstances come inshore to feed (here in mass we see them in march and late fall, every so often fish get blown in shore)
Its quite to difficult to distinguish a sea herring from a river herring just by catching them in the bay. Especially with small sizes, if one gets an adult sea herring then its quite the different story.
Again its only herring, then again its only the law.
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River herrings tend to be a bit bulkier and have blue backs. Alewives are a little yellow in color. Sea herrings have a skinnier profile and have a distinctive purplish/pink sheen to them. And also their scales fall apart faster as they're not built to swim through rocky streams. I've caught herring at GI and I can confirm that they're sea herrings. When Alewives were legal I took them to the causeway and they stood out compared to the herrings there. If EPO have anything to say I'm sure it can be refuted. "Dude, that's a sea herring man".
Did you know river herring spend most of their lives in coastal waters before traveling up rivers only to spawn?
Did you know sea herring primarily stay offshore and under certain circumstances come inshore to feed (here in mass we see them in march and late fall, every so often fish get blown in shore)
Its quite to difficult to distinguish a sea herring from a river herring just by catching them in the bay. Especially with small sizes, if one gets an adult sea herring then its quite the different story.
Again its only herring, then again its only the law.
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River herrings tend to be a bit bulkier and have blue backs. Alewives are a little yellow in color. Sea herrings have a skinnier profile and have a distinctive purplish/pink sheen to them. And also their scales fall apart faster as they're not built to swim through rocky streams. I've caught herring at GI and I can confirm that they're sea herrings. When Alewives were legal I took them to the causeway and they stood out compared to the herrings there. If EPO have anything to say I'm sure it can be refuted. "Dude, that's a sea herring man".