Unfortunate suprise

Unfortunate suprise

 Poor little gummys found while filleting

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If I catch a gummie I

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:28

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

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that's why ya gut and de-tail

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:29

that's why ya gut and de-tail sharks upon capture.

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may have been to small to survive

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:34

 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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Are sharks the only 'fish' to

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:36

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

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Not 100%

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:53

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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Yep, I am fully aware of the

Mon, 2013-07-08 23:05

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

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There a range of live bearing

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:51

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

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 Yeah I've been shark midwife

Mon, 2013-07-08 19:58

 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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 Does anyone know if there is any

Tue, 2013-07-09 00:08

 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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Yeah i had this with a wobby

Tue, 2013-07-09 08:51

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

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Ready to go?

Tue, 2013-07-09 11:07

I imagine most aren't quite ready to face the big wild yet and wouldn't survive long anyway.

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Bait

Tue, 2013-07-09 13:30

Would make for an awesome bait!

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Live and dead

Tue, 2013-07-09 15:45

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