debate about striped bass

hello,
my name is Joseph and I'm representing my constituency of recreational fishers. The debate has been heated for some time and I'm trying to understand everyone's feelings towards this issue of fishing our coastal waters. it is such a treasured resource. With that being said I know we as the recreational fisherman have to show some sustainability to our resources that's why I feel we should split our quota in New Jersey with the commercial fishing industry. Something more equitable for everyone involved. As it stands now we get two fish and a bonus That's why I propose giving up our bonus to commercial fishing interests. It has to be regulated though. I think we should not look into trawling as a means of commercial fishing. Let cool heads prevail let's walk instead of run. I still don't feel we should open up the federal waters. We all know the fish do not know the difference but I feel it helps in the balance of things. We can watch how the fish grow and migrate. I also feel the current rules and regulations of not fishing where they spawn should stay. I know with constant communication on this subject with all concerned parties is essential in coming to a consensus. Here's hoping that our children's children can all see the natural beauty and resource that is all of ours for generations.
may we all de bait later in the season

spectacle Island part 1

Here we are on spectacle Island, zee boat zee boat!!! Well once qwe got on spectacle it was pretty hot and humid. There was a nice breeze.
We went along the shoreline hunting for a good place to set our hulu hoop, transect. Our first one was high up on the beach. We measured it with a tape measure. 80 feet from lowtide and 16 feet from the sand berm.

we then were able to gather an abundance of

periwinkles well dead periwinkles were in abundance. many with holes in them.





Sand glass was everywhere! I never saw so much in my whole life talk about relative abundance. Artificial to environment would they be considered an invasive species? just joking.
for shells
blue muscles partial pieces
razor clams 5 pieces
slipper shell example http://www.edc.uri.edu

periwinkles 250 pieces
Barnacles dead
shell fish
partial white crab leg 1
tiny crab craw 1









This was our first transect

we don't need no stinkin food channel

well I woke in the morning after I passed out last night from all my finals and papers due this week to be treated to a piece of delicious striped bass waiting for me in my refrigerator. Man was it nice not having to eat cheerios in the morning. I like my fish very plain, I want to taste the fish. So nothing added except for a little olive oil. That's really the best. So I'm cooking it about 3:30 in the morning and my wife is sleeping on the other side of the house when I finall sit down to eat ala carte. She comes out and asks if I'm cooking steak. Heck no I'm cooking Striped Bass. It was the yummiest fish. I like fish but I don't get to cook it much. All I eat is Salmon and sushi with the wife, I love salmon in any combination. I think I found my new fish.
signing off

Audio of Sea Chantey with David Coffin

The video I have of the Sea Chantey is too big, it's great to watch and listen too, here is the Audio. There's technical issues with the Video I think it's the codecs from my premier pro cs4 editing program.

Lovell Island

This is an update of our trip to lovells island what a trip. i know it's late


When we arrived at our first Island (Lovell Island), what a minute we did learn in class the next day that some of our discoveries from the docks the day before were invasive species that come from boats, bilge water on the boats to name a couple of delivery systems of invasive species. Sounds like a country invading another. I digress this is about bio diversity- number of species exploring brackish waters.
as opposed to more open waters that we found on Lovell Island. This was a drawing I drew on the gangway when we disembarked onto Lovell Island. Very low tide at the beginning of the day. We walked along the Island eating Berries. We finally arrived after about a half mile of walking. Low Tide as I had mentioned before. They were about an inch to a foot deep. Relatively warm until you came upon the tide rushing in. Some pictures of our land friends we came across on Lovells.



in the tidal pools we came across some tunicates, snails, hermit crabs, Marine Snails were smooth, yellow to brownish, found in the tidal pool, differences from from the one's we saw in the tree. land snails were








Update:African land snail's are a invasive species check out this site http://www.massnrc.org/pests/pestFAQsheets/giantafricanlandsnail.html

Back to our land snails (Grove snails) my hypothesis for the snails all being in one position is that they are escargot to birds. they climb up trees and seem to be a delicious meal for a robin possibly. In my research for an explanation of this. I came across a pretty neat website located in Scotland and they were very interested in snails and they had a explanation why they had such great shells protecting them from a bird called a song thrush. They had a great camouflage system, The site is http://www.evolutionmegalab.org/en_GB//

As for the holes in the shells I came across a website National geographic, I posted a video with the cone snail killing a fish. Which convinced me they were not as innocent as I may have believed before. I don't know how predatory the different snails can be.

cont. of day 2

Once we arrived at the barking crab dock we formed into teams. okay just to let you know this is a late entry, but hey I'm trying, and what can I tell you? Doesn't matter what grade I get, it's that I learn and boy am I learning, thank you.
we measured the depth of the dock area which measured 18"6' give or take a few inches depending on the sludge on the bottom and we took the temperature which was 71 degrees 3 feet from the bottom (measured twice) and 74 degrees 3 feet from the top (measured twice).
at this point we cut out a portion of differently shaped shells and black moss, web like, what appeared to a clustered together by plant matter.
I've perused the Hitchhikers pamphlet and came across the tunicate and was able to identify some of the material we came across under the dock.
As a Group we made a particular discovery a translucent membrane bulb
found under the dock partially where it could get sun light,
which was squishy and dirt covered,
varying degrees of size 1 cm to 3 cm
several clustered together membrane on the outside was difficult to cut through, once cut a thick mucous oozed out, there was appeared to be a worm like encased within the mucous.

my other animal actually arthropod would be what appeared to be small slivers of sticks, like toothpicks or appendages (description from Audubon). In the "Audubon field guide" the closest description was between the long horn skeleton shrimp and smooth skeleton shrimp. where I got my descriptions of arthropod http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ bilateral symmetry, hard exoskeleton, jointed appendages or legs, many pairs of legs.

For plant life, we first saw a a green, mossy velvet like covering on the stone wall at the gangway to the boston Harbor cruises. To the right is a picture I drew of a green and dark green and black with bulbous ends when squeezed air and water (little) and slight pop sound. what I have found out doing a little research on http://www.britannica.com/ also looks a lot like Sargassum.

The velvet looking seaweed that was located next to a white hard shell cone looking (barnacles) a crustacean and arthropod, covering the wall in large formations.

Day 2 Post

The greek tailor sez to the greek who tore his pants. Euripedes? The greek replies, Eumenides? Well a heck of a day! The past two days. I was rendering a video and my computer basically blew up.

Here I am trying to catch up with two days of rocous fun and experimentation. I do mean fun and learning, I never had so much fun learning scientific methods. It's actually helped with my other papers I'm doing, (developing a hypothesis). Well back to day two at the Barking crab, this was definately a great time looking at brackish water on or rather under the docks of the Barking Crab. Group two was very prepared with numerous collection tools we were able to measure the depth, temperature, and various specimens underneath the dock with various tools we brought with us.

Our first stop was Long Wharf Marriott

where we observed at least two species of plant on the wall.

Our second stop on our trip along the walkway was at another wall where we did not observe much life growth on the wall and a hypothesis could be that the shade from the surrounding buildings was keeping it out.

Our next stop along our trip was at the Barking Crab. This is where we were able to gather specimens underneath the dock.

This will have to be continued on day 2 post cont. please look for it, thank you!

Second day

Okay I have a question, what’s the biggest fish in Massachusetts?...........give up? It’s the Mass Pike budda bum! Don’t forget to tip the salad and try the waitress when you leave tonight. Yea I’m embarrassed and I need to apologize for my actions today. When I corrected Alex’s paper I dun goofed. There is no excuse as a colleague or friend. I’ll put it this way, in another life I was a Democrat in the Marine Corp. yup, we were not Unicorns. I was a paratrooper as well, we are responsible for our buddies parachute making sure everything is okay, by not correcting the mistake appropriately in the paper, in a case of a parachute Alex would be in a world of hurt once his parachute didn’t open up correctly. I would be that variable that everyone would wonder why the test results were not coming out the same every time. I apologize to my class, Prof. Berman and most importantly Alex. It won’t happen again.

My observations are as follows:

As we were boarding there was a pretty disintegrated cement wall before we got onboard the boat. With the help of Emily she identified two different birds’ a male mallard and a cormorant. As we were leaving the inner harbor area, on the port side going out to the harbor was deer island treatment (poop plant)

We passed through Hull gut. Picked and discharged people in Hull, Quincy, Airport (East Boston), and finally disembarked at the long wharf. Passed Paddocks Island a couple times.

There was a varied shoreline; rocky shores and man made walls were all the things observed today. There were many islands that we passed like Georges Island and paddocks Island; we cruised through Hingham Bay and Quincy Bay. Saw a flock of birds (gulls) chasing a school of Bass.

My Intro:

Hi,
What's the difference between a Jazz musician and a Blues musician? A Blues musician plays three chords in front of a thousand people; a Jazz musician plays a thousand chords in front of three people. badump bump. I'm here for the next week try the haddock stay away from the veal. My name is Joe Santosuosso, I'm married to a wonderful gal and we are expecting our first baby September the second. We have a dog called daisy; my wife and daisy boss me around endlessly. I can’t wait for the baby so he can boss me around too. At least it won’t be two girls bossing me around.

I grew up next to a marsh, some of my fondest memories as a child have been in the marshes and low lying swamps in Saugus Mass. and the North Shore, I've moved around a lot living in California and New York. I have never been too far from the water always close enough that I could throw a stone to a river like the Hudson or an ocean like the Pacific in the few places I have lived. My wife is jealous as hell that I'm taking this class she has been sailing her whole life with her family and she loves the water. As for me, I’m not much of a sailor but love to sail. I like the water and one of my favorite beaches in the world is Cranes beach.

My observation of the sink was just the fact that I took everyone Else's word for it. They all said it was clockwise rotation. I have to say I was too far away from the sink portion of the experiment. As for the toilet part of the experiment I definitely saw the water moving in a clockwise fashion. From what I remember in my childhood recollections and various people’s opinion is that because we are on different sides of the equator and the spinning axis of the earth is why it spins in different directions.

After researching a bit you can view a pretty neat you tube video click here . Wow I found a very interesting article on the Guardian website whereas people had a lot of varying and legitimate ideas, you guys should check it out click here and here is an excerpt (taken without permission from Britannica) it actually says that at the bottom of the page about the cariolis effect click here There seems to be as many theories as there are people. So my final take on it is that it's an illusion and depending on the structure and the tilt of the bowl we can have different turning effects.

"Why Does Water Going down a Plughole Spin in One Direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Other Direction in the Southern? Which Way (if Any) Does It Spin on the Equator? Also Are There Any Planets Which Don''t Spin? Notes and Queries Guardian.co.uk." Latest News, Comment and Reviews from the Guardian Guardian.co.uk. Web. 27 July 2010. .

YouTube - The Coriolis Force. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 27 July 2010. .

"Coriolis Effect." Mac OS X Server. Web. 27 July 2010. .

Joseph Santosuosso