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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Grace Curtin Project Progress

For my project dealing with fish otoliths, I went fishing with my father on Friday in hopes of catching many fish including a Redfish. It turns out, fishing takes a lot of patience and cooperation with the fish. While fishing by Hammock Dunes Resort, I caught a sciaenops ocellatus, whose common name is Red Drum. The Red Drum is a species of Redfish; however, it was not large enough in length to legally keep. Luckily, my father caught a paralichthys dentatus, whose common name is a summer flounder. 
Neither of us were happy about
his arrival because of his size. However,
he was put back.

Red Drum compared to a hand
(not legal size for keeping)

Flounder
(it was flopping around, sorry for the blurriness)


I am in the process of extracting its otoliths still. I have done the research on how to carry out this task and I will be cutting into the left side under the gill of the flounder. After puncturing through the fish's epidermis and removing the otic capsule and then obtain the flounder's otolith.

I will be fishing this time at the beach in Ormond to hopefully have more of a chance at catching fish during high tide at 4:30am.
MORE TO COME AFTER FISHING....AGAIN!
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 21, 2013 at 1:28 AM

    Since a flounder is such a flat fish, is the removal of the flounder's otolith different from other species of fish? I am interested in hearing the size of the flounder's otolith, good luck!

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  2. UnknownNovember 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM

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    1. UnknownNovember 21, 2013 at 7:45 AM

      I'm guessing invasive species such as the Lionfish do not have size restrictions. Are there any other fish in the Volusia County area that do not have size restrictions? Also, not sure if this would help you, but there is this aquarium fish store on 17-92, right outside Daytona Beach, my parents bought Koi and Goldfish there for really cheap ($3-$18, and they were bigger than my palm), maybe he has some Lionfish for sale?(previous post had typo)

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  3. Deb 'n PaulNovember 21, 2013 at 9:14 AM

    Yes--about the lionfish...I do hope you still plan on getting one/some from somewhere so that you can complete your original project topic. Any plans??

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  4. Deb 'n PaulNovember 23, 2013 at 9:02 PM

    Also--you said you caught a "paralichthys dentatus"? is this the genus and species name? If so--I've questions for you about this!

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