This analysis identified a fixed set of 105 core stations and sampling was reduced to May and June only, except for July when
weakfish were sampled (dropped in 1998; sampling in July was reinitiated in 2004 for spotted seat-rout), and only a trawl with a 3.2-m (10.5-ft) headrope and with 6.4-mm (0.25-in) bar mesh would be used.
Metazoan parasites of
weakfish, Cynoscion guatucupa and Macrodon ancylodon (Osteichthyes: Sciaenidae), from the coastal zone of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinaria, vol.
Otolithus carolinensis = Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier): Spotted Seatrout, Spotted
Weakfish; p.
Also known colloquially as bunker, pogies, or alewifes, they are the staple food for many commercially important predator fish, including striped bass, bluefish, and
weakfish, which are harvested along the coast in a dozen different states, as well as for sharks, dolphins, and blue whales.
(41.) See GRIFFIN ET AL., supra note 38, at 2 ("While the shrimp fishery is one of the most economically significant trawl fisheries, the gear also targets a variety of other species, including flounder, scallop, scup, black sea bass, groundfish, Atlantic croaker, mackerel,
weakfish, squid and conch.").
Variations in growth rate were reported among populations of the
weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) in the Middle Atlantic Bight and were attributed to varying allocations of energy to somatic growth in relation to environmental and migratory requirements and the availability of food items in each habitat (Shephard and Grimes 1983).
The mean length of the numerically dominant species ranged from 10.3 (butterfish) to 24.4 cm (
weakfish).
Shirley also writes "in the Chesapeake Bay, the percentage of menhaden in the diets of many recreational fish such as striped bass and
weakfish has fallen from double to single digits in the last decade.
2,415.0 Northern kingfish Menticirrhus saxatilis 177.8 Gafftopsail catfish Bagre marinus 1,990.7 Irridescent swimming crab Portunus gibbesii 8.7 Flounder (family) Bothidae 1,699.4 Bonnethead shark Sphyrna tiburo 1,252.0 Atlantic cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus 1,225.5 Black drum Pogonias cromis 1,402.7 Blue crab Callinectes sapidus
Weakfish Cynoscion regalis Atlantic bumper Chloroscombrus chrysurus 1,062.8 Sand perch Diplectrum formosum 953.4 Longspine swimming crab Portunus spinicarpus 4.5 Vermillion (B-liner) Rhomboplites aurorubens 893.2 snapper Left-eye flounder Syacium spp.
Every three months, politically appointed commissioners from fifteen Atlantic states and two federal agencies spend the better part of a week in windowless hotel conference rooms in coastal cities, arguing and occasionally coming to some tepid agreement about how to regulate striped bass,
weakfish, American lobster, horseshoe crab, coastal shark, and forage fish like herring and Atlantic menhaden.
So, scientists examined the technique used to dry processing waste from striped
weakfish (Cynoscion striatus) in an air-circulating oven.
John Waldman, a professor of biology at Queens College, puts it this way: "I and others can visit a local bay or the surf for a few hours before or after work and have a chance to tangle with major inshore gamefish like striped bass, bluefish and
weakfish. I don't have to drive all the way to Montauk to catch the same species." And if the fish aren't biting, you're within walking distance (or a quick bus or subway ride) of all the joys and temptations of the city.
