Fish ID?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2012-03-26 09:47
Anyone know what this fish is - millions in the sound...??
Any good for bait or burley?
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fishy fingers
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Butter fish
or butterfish!
till
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Butterfish <-- maybe bait or
Butterfish <-- maybe bait or berley!
fisherking
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Yup, Butterfish. Heaps around
Yup, Butterfish.
Heaps around in the sound.
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ben89
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Hooked something in the sound
Hooked something in the sound I couldn't stop on one of them also a big north west blowie didn't mind munching on one on Saturday
Glenn Moore
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more precisely
Western Australian Butterfish Pentapodus vitta. I just wanted to make the point that this is a WA endemic - i.e. only found in WA. Maybe it's not important to everyone, but the south-west and west coasts of Australia are unique places with many endemic species and this is one of them. Even though it might not get eaten, this fact puts it in the same special group as a few other endemics you might have heard of - WA Dhufish and Baldchin Groper, just to name two
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NightWolf
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great for crunching up got
great for crunching up for berley or for use as stripped bait maybe live bait to
snappermiles
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snapper love them
great bait
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davebarry (not verified)
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Glen Moore, you saying there
Glen Moore, you saying there are limits and sizes etc that need to be observed for this fish? I landed a few yesterday around the 500 gram mark, and the wife said she hoped they tasted like trout - I never tried, as I did not want to breach any regulations. Anybody eaten them yet? Any restrictions and regulations around this fish?? Thanks for the info so far...
Glenn Moore
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no
No mate, not saying that - I just have an interest in WA fishes, so I was just pointing out that they are not found anywhere else in the world. I think they are low risk species which means you can take 30 per day, but check yourself. I don't think they are that flash to eat, but some people do eat them.
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
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