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“Ocean pout– eats sand dollars”

July 21, 2014
Can you name this fish? Bonus points if you know what it eats!

Photo: Carol Glor

After 15 minutes the dredge is hauled up to the surface and the net is emptied out onto the sorting table....Our catches included a variety of marine species: scallops, sand dollars, ocean pout, windowpane flounder, yellowtail flounder, four spot flounder, and gulfstream flounder, silver and red hake, quahogs, barn-door and winter skate, haddock, sand lance, cancer and hermit crab, sea mouse, sea sponge, fawn cusk eel, wave whelk, and monkfish (goosefish).
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