Fish ID help

Saltwater Inshore Reports
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Wife caught this in Bulls Bay. Anyone know what it is?

thanks

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Southern Hake

NN

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Correct If you catch a bigger one, theyre good to eat

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Thanks never seen one that I remember.

5

I watched a show the other night and they had Fried Hake as one of the entrees??

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Here when water is cool

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Lizard fish

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quote:
Originally posted by sanddog28

Lizard fish

Wrong . NN,nb and fh are three fellas I would not second guess.
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hake, have heard it called cusk… is not a lizzardfish

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I have caught larger ones offshore during the winter. Good eating.

ZX

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It’s a hake. Lots of them off Cape Cod. They use to drag nets for them and we would tuna fish behind them.

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They remind me of a small tile fish. Barbawang should know if they in the same family.

The ENTER-NET Fisherman

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They’re in the cod family

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hake are family Merlucciidae, cod are Gadidae

13yr old barbawang with the latter:

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quote:
Originally posted by barbawang

hake are family Merlucciidae, cod are Gadidae

13yr old barbawang with the latter:

BOOM...there's an ROI on an edumacation. Thanks. They still remind me of tilefish.

The ENTER-NET Fisherman

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ROI ain’t helping pay off these loans…

Maddies Daddy, I did 5 minutes of intensive google and wiki work for you. Phylogenies are below- tilefish and hake are different at the Order level. The former is Perciform, and both cod and hake are Gadiform (which is latin for “cod-shaped”, and where I believe Mr. Flair was going with this).

Tilefishes:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Malacanthidae

Cod:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Gadidae

Hake:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Merlucciidae

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Yes - exactly . True cods have 3 dorsal fins. Thanks for tagging in!

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quote:
Originally posted by barbawang

ROI ain’t helping pay off these loans…

Maddies Daddy, I did 5 minutes of intensive google and wiki work for you. Phylogenies are below- tilefish and hake are different at the Order level. The former is Perciform, and both cod and hake are Gadiform (which is latin for “cod-shaped”, and where I believe Mr. Flair was going with this).

Tilefishes:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Malacanthidae

Cod:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Gadidae

Hake:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gadiformes
Family: Merlucciidae

Man, that brought back some bad memories from college days. The fishes(hake) body resembles a tilefush ...the face...not so much. By the way(BTW), my pig/dog/and me want to know when the next Dog Party is? Asking for the pig.

The ENTER-NET Fisherman

19

yes hake for sure…used to catch them like crazy up in Jersey during fall/winter used to call them whiting …excellent eating fish. real good smoked…but were mostly fished out by the time I left about 12 years ago…great bluefin tuna bait

19 Carolina Skiff

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For god’s sake it’s a Black Sea Bass. I’ve caught tons of them (only bigger) when I lived up in Jersey.