If I catch a gummie I generally gut and clean straight away I have had one that had young inside and they were wiggling put them over the side to watch them swim off.Just a thought
Hey Tim-O, I'm not 100% but I think it is mainly the the "primitive" fish like sharks & rays that generally bear live young. Some others are "mouth breeders" that either lay eggs and incubate them in the mouth (even past hatching) or bear very small live young and keep them safe in their mouths. Some freshwater aquarium fish also are also live bearers, like guppies, mollies, platies etc. Overall though I think that majority are egg layers, including some species of sharks.
Yep, I am fully aware of the aquarium species, just curious about the ones we may encounter fishing, so if we get a fatty, and know of this then best off releasing mumsy I suppose, like we do crabs
There a range of live bearing fish tim-o, but the majority of them are very small and are primarily found in freshwater such as Gambusia. Plenty of them in the aquarium trade
When shark fishing up north, if they were alive and kicking they were next years catch, if dead tomorrows bait.
Have had some tigers and hammer pups that were alive and around a metre in length and also on the other side of things, from small tigers a metre long with pups about 150mm long
catchalittle
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If I catch a gummie I
If I catch a gummie I generally gut and clean straight away I have had one that had young inside and they were wiggling put them over the side to watch them swim off.Just a thought
Nathan
keef
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that's why ya gut and de-tail
that's why ya gut and de-tail sharks upon capture.
limit your catch, dont catch your limit
Jason P
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may have been to small to survive
I think they may have been too small to survive anyway as was reading they are usually born between Oct to Dec.
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tim-o
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Are sharks the only 'fish' to
Are sharks the only 'fish' to have live birth? Not including dolphins and whales. I never knew that, only went to school to eat my lunch
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Browndog
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Not 100%
Hey Tim-O, I'm not 100% but I think it is mainly the the "primitive" fish like sharks & rays that generally bear live young. Some others are "mouth breeders" that either lay eggs and incubate them in the mouth (even past hatching) or bear very small live young and keep them safe in their mouths. Some freshwater aquarium fish also are also live bearers, like guppies, mollies, platies etc. Overall though I think that majority are egg layers, including some species of sharks.
...did any of the above make sense?
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tim-o
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Yep, I am fully aware of the
Yep, I am fully aware of the aquarium species, just curious about the ones we may encounter fishing, so if we get a fatty, and know of this then best off releasing mumsy I suppose, like we do crabs
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Bootboot
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There a range of live bearing
There a range of live bearing fish tim-o, but the majority of them are very small and are primarily found in freshwater such as Gambusia. Plenty of them in the aquarium trade
sea-kem
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Yeah I've been shark midwife
Yeah I've been shark midwife a couple of times now. It's amazing how small the sharks were that actually gave birth too.
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Jim
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Does anyone know if there is any
Does anyone know if theres a way you can tell that they're defintely carrying? apart from fat! Be good to know, ive been lucky so far
Dipped in flour and deep fryed, top price overseas i hear
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dkonig82
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Yeah i had this with a wobby
Yeah i had this with a wobby once, but was gutting at sea and released them so hopefully they made it. They swam off in any case
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
chrisd
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Ready to go?
I imagine most aren't quite ready to face the big wild yet and wouldn't survive long anyway.
hillinb
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Bait
Would make for an awesome bait!
carnarvonite
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Live and dead
When shark fishing up north, if they were alive and kicking they were next years catch, if dead tomorrows bait.
Have had some tigers and hammer pups that were alive and around a metre in length and also on the other side of things, from small tigers a metre long with pups about 150mm long