It started in Might, with fishermen reporting massive faculties of Atlantic menhaden (a.okay.a. bunker, a.okay.a. pogies) in open water in Cape Cod Bay. The bunker settled in alongside the shorelines, and into Boston Harbor, the place, for a lot of the summer time, stripers grew fats and glad amongst their favourite massive baitfish. Often, anglers fishing amongst these bunker faculties would hook a one thing a lot bigger.
In recent times, in keeping with stomach-sampling analysis by Dr. Walt Golet and his staff on the Pelagic Fisheries Lab, large bluefin have shifted their food plan from being predominantly Atlantic herring, to being predominantly Atlantic menhaden. Watch our current podcast with Dr. Walt under:
With such massive concentrations of menhaden in Cape Cod Bay, it was solely a matter of time earlier than the bluefin discovered them. And the consequence has been spectacular. Over the past two weeks, captains have posted some unimaginable movies of 100-inch bluefin blasting bunker into the air as they feast on the hapless baitfish.
We’re fortunate to have these large tuna placing on such a present proper right here in our dwelling waters of the Northeast.
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