I had to share this Another gem from Wayne Davis, the Rhode Island spotter pilot. Davis told me he found this pod, last week, in very deep water off Oceanographer's Canyon, well southeast of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Sperm whales are mysterious …
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The northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
Wayne Davis with another beauty of a photo he shot from his plane 100 miles off Nantucket. He took the photo yesterday, September 13th. He was flying over Oceanographers Canyon, and found this Atlantic manta ray, Manta birostris, with a devil ray, Mobula …
Photos of Party Boats, San Francisco Bay.
A friend of mine, Abner Kingman, sent these along from the West Coast. I like these photos. I like their perspective. Abner is putting a book together of the working craft of San Francisco Bay, and one of the subjects is party boats. Some of the others are tugs and …
Some observations at my local fish ladder.
Things I've learned this spring: not all river herring use fish ladders the way we'd like them to. Many of the fish swim right on past, don't use them at all. The fish ladder at Wakefield, RI. It's on the westside of town near the Chevy dealership. This ladder …
Abner Kingman photographs the Bering Sea.
I've known Abner since high school. He went to St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. For work he takes pictures of boats and writes about them. The photos below brought him well north of the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Abner has done work for …
Monkfish to Seoul.
New England monkfish--it's an export market. A small amount does stay domestic, you'd think it'd be more, monkfish are delicious: broiled, baked, or grilled. But the American palate for seafood is hard to describe. I call it safe, predictable, boneless, filleted. …
