Japanese Rubyfish
Submitted by Glenn Moore on Wed, 2012-02-29 14:12
Hi all,
If you have followed the discussion of the ID of this fish here, I have now written a piece for the WA Museum blog, and of course FW gets a nod. You can find it on the WA Museum blog page and of course, nice comments on the page are gratefully accepted 
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I'm posting here because it is a long weekend and the weather is looking promising for some crew to get out wide. If anyone can catch one, we'd love a donation......
In case you can't be bothered with the links (but please do...) it looks like this (from LukeR)
Cheers,
Glenn
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Glenn Moore
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Western Australian Museum
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Black Bream Bandit
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no probs
heading out this weekend.. Soo if we catch one its all yours.. do you get them south off perth??? Are they good chewing do you know???
Ben Derecki
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from the blog
"From all reports, this species has a very dark coloured flesh and does not make a good table fish"
Glenn Moore
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As Ben said - no good to eat,
As Ben said - no good to eat, and since this is the first record for WA - no idea where else they are found...
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Western Australian Museum
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southcity104
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Caught one late last year.
A few days after lukeR got one. Both at the Derwent wreck i believe.
"Its a life style job"
Ben Derecki
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something to think about?
Something people might want to consider if they catch one - given it looks a lot like a ruby snapper issues might arise trying to argue with a Fisheries officer back at the ramp that its actually a Japanese Rubyfish which doesn't count as a Cat 1 / High Risk fish. You might want to check your bag limit before deciding to ice it just as a precaution?
bitten
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i dont think it looks too
i dont think it looks too much like a ruby
lurcha
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Hey hey that's me in the
Hey hey that's me in the photo!! Was an interesting capture and pretty sure it was on jig! Curiosity got the better of us and yes it was a very dark flesh.
southcity104
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no issues with bag limit on those
because other than the one i may give to glenn the rest are going straight back over. Tasted terrible.
"Its a life style job"
Faulkner Family
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good to finally find out
good to finally find out what sort of fish it is. well done Glenn on the id. now we know not to bother with them
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
fishcrazy
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rubyfish
This one also caught derwent next one goin to glenn
Glenn Moore
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Thanks mate! for those that
Thanks mate! for those that are wondering - fishcrazy is talking about this one just caught http://fishwrecked.com/forum/fish-id-32
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
twitter @WestOzFish