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--Apple-Mail-12-258191822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed THANKS, MIKE: I Googled American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, =20 and below are a few links about this species, which can reach 30 cm. =20 long but usually are 15 to 20 cm. long. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. American butterfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_butterfish=E2=80=8E The American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, is a butterfish of the =20= family Stromateidae. It is also known as a dollarfish, shiner, =20 skipjack, sheepshead, ... =E2=80=8EAppearance - =E2=80=8ERange - =E2=80=8EHabits - =E2=80=8EBreeding= Peprilus triacanthus, Atlantic butterfish : fisheries, gamefish - =20 FishBase www.fishbase.org/summary/492=E2=80=8E Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804). Atlantic butterfish. Upload your =20 photos and videos =C2=B7 Pictures | Google image =C2=B7 Image of = Peprilus =20 triacanthus (Atlantic butterfish). [PDF] Butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, Life History and Habitat =20 Characteristics www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/tm/tm145/tm145.pdf NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-145. Essential Fish Habitat Source =20 Document: Butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus,. Life History and Habitat =20= Characteristics. Begin forwarded message: > From: Mike Dadswell <mike.dadswell@acadiau.ca> > Date: March 16, 2014 3:16:11 PM ADT > To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>, =20 > "jimwolford@eastlink.ca" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: RE: re species ID of "flatfish?" > > Jim > The fish are probably not 'flatfish' I would guess they are =20 > 'butterfish' which are silvery, small, round, pelagic and might =20 > show up in Bras D'Or in winter. > > Tell the fellow in Trenton the striped bass at Trenton outflow =20= > are common. > > Mike D > ________________________________________ > From: James W. Wolford [jimwolford@eastlink.ca] > Sent: March 16, 2014 12:05 AM > To: Dusan Soudek; Mike Dadswell; Ken McKenna > Subject: re species ID of "flatfish?" > > Dusan, Where is "Little Passage"? And Mike, can you guess at the =20 > possibilities for species of these "flatfish"? Thanks everyone! =20 > from Jim in Wolfville > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ken McKenna <kenmcken@eastlink.ca<mailto:kenmcken@eastlink.ca>> > Date: March 15, 2014 4:20:57 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] species ID of "flatfish?" > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > > > Ken McKenna > Box 218 Stellarton NS > B0K 1S0 > 902 752-7644 > Hi Dusan > Maybe a Flounder species- (winter, yellowtail, witch) or American =20 > Plaice. These may be some of the species that occur in the area. =20 > There are quite a number of varieties of "flatfish". > No Double-crested Cormorants are in Pictou Co. yet that I can see. =20 > There is much harbour ice although today's south winds opened up =20 > some water off Merigomish Harbour and Big Island. The DC Cormorants =20= > usually arrive in the last week of March. > I wonder if the cormorants you saw were over-wintering Great =20 > Cormorants. We had 3 over-winter here near the Trenton power plant =20 > outflow although I only saw one last weekend.A large number of =20 > Common Mergansers, and Bald Eagles joined in catching what seemed =20 > to be abundant fish this winter at the outflow of the Trenton power =20= > plant. A few fish that showed up dead on the shore looked like =20 > Striped Bass. > cheers > ken > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dusan Soudek<mailto:soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: NatureNS<mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 2:37 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] species ID of "flatfish?" > > Yesterday, while waiting for the ferry at the Bras d=E2=80=99Or = Lakes=E2=80=99 =20 > Little Passage, I was impressed by the 20 =E2=80=93 40 cormorants = fishing =20 > and frequently catching. All the caught fish looked to be the same =20 > species. About 30 cm in length, quite silvery, and very round when =20 > seen from the side. A ferry crew member called them =E2=80=9Cflatfish.=E2= =80=9D > > The path of the ferry was the only open water around, as the nearby =20= > portion of the lake was frozen solid. The cormorants were quite =20 > habituated to the back-and-fro movement of the ferry. The ones =20 > sitting on the edge of the ice barely moved when the ferry went by, =20= > and the ones swimming avoided it by mere feet. A bald eagle and =20 > some mergansers were also present but less active than the =20 > cormorants. What a show! Does anyone know the proper scientific =20 > name of =E2=80=9Cflatfish?=E2=80=9D Is there a run on right now? > > Dusan Soudek > --Apple-Mail-12-258191822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> THANKS, MIKE: I Googled American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, and = below are a few links about this species, which can reach 30 cm. long = but usually are 15 to 20 cm. long. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<div><br></div><div><ol> <li style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px = 23.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" = color=3D"#1a1db8" style=3D"font: 16.0px Arial; color: #1a1db8"><a = href=3D"http://www.google.ca/url?q=3Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American= _butterfish&sa=3DU&ei=3D_bQoU-eYGOe50AHY_oG4Aw&ved=3D0CB0QFjAA= &usg=3DAFQjCNHMVm8rXcE4n7pTM63TJC7UgsMYvQ"><b>American = butterfish</b> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></font></li> <li = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#2f6326" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; = color: = #2f6326">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>American</b>_<b>butterfish</b></font><fo= nt face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#444444" style=3D"font: 14.0px = Arial; color: #444444">=E2=80=8E</font></li> <li style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#444444" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #444444">The = <b>American butterfish</b>, <b>Peprilus triacanthus</b>, is <b>a = butterfish</b> of the family Stromateidae. 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