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| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. |
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| Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings |
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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
| Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines. |
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| In three decades, the world's oceans will contain more discarded plastic than fish when measured by weight, researchers say. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Just how man species of fish are there? |
| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Even Catfish are finicky |
| Taste Buds ? Catfish have a more refined sense of flavor than humans. Our 10,000 taste buds may seem like a lot, but catfish can have as many as 175,000. This helps them find the exact location of their next meal. |
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| My brother has 2 German Shepherds named Rolex and Timex. You guessed it they are Watch Dogs. |
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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 21, 2025
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6 Mar 2013 - San Jose del Cabo February 24, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric Brictson
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
February 24, 2013
Anglers –
Much of the same patterns continue into the last week of February, light
crowds of tourists, cool mornings with scattered cloud cover, days warming
to 75 degrees, persistent northerly winds up to 15 mph are now showing
signs of residing and big numbers of whales remain in the region. Will not
be long now before springtime arrives, always a favorite time to visit and
enjoy ideal weather conditions and the world class sportfishing
opportunities. Ocean currents are now averaging 69 to 71 degrees and
clarity has been fair, considering the temperature.
Schools of mackerel seem to have scattered from the San Jose del Cabo
grounds, where caballito baitfish have taken their place and sardinas
continue to be netted off the beaches near the San Luis and Vinorama. Local
fleets have been finding a variety of action from Punta Gorda, La Fortuna,
Iman and to Vinorama. Sierra have provided the majority of action close to
shore, mostly smaller sized, some reaching up to 3 or 4 pounds. Roosterfish
have been encountered close to shore, just to the north of the PLC Marina
Jetties, some of these fish reaching 10 pounds. Dorado have been harder to
find in recent days, often being found later on when the sun warms the
ocean surface some, no big schools, just a few fish here or there, average
sizes ranged from 5 to 15 lb. Bottom action produced limited results on
pargo, cabrilla, amberjack and triggerfish. Juvenile sized yellowtail are
being found on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas, but no yellows reported
off of Palmilla or other grounds yet. We do anticipate much improved action
off the rock piles as weather transitions towards the spring season.
Striped marlin have been most numerous on the Golden Gate Bank and other
Pacific grounds, the billfish are starting to shift in the direction off of
San Jose as well, this migration occurs each season, all species of fish
follow their preferred food source.
Yellowfin tuna were being found offshore of Cabo San Lucas, traveling with
porpoise, charters that did encounter this activity reported fast action
for football sized tuna. This week the Gordo Banks produced a handful of
larger grade yellowfin, up to about 120 pounds, only a few numbers of these
tuna were landed, but it proves they are still schooling in the area, these
are the first tuna heard about on the local banks in several weeks, all of
the hook ups were taken while drift fishing with chunks of skipjack, which
have been very plentiful throughout the area. Encouraging to see that these
fish are hanging around this late in the season, maybe they will never even
leave this year.
On an extreme personal negative side, it would be hard for me not to
mention that this past Saturday night our newest fleet boat, a 26 ft.
Regulator, was stolen right from our panga dock area in La Playita, Puerto
Los Cabos Marina. At his time the boat has not been found anywhere and
investigators believe that the twin Yamaha outboards were removed quickly
at sea and then the boat was shuttled and sunk offshore. This has been the
operational history followed by thieves off of the East Cape region in
recent times, stealing the motors and sinking the boats. This is the first
of this type of crime to occur in Puerto Los Cabos Marina and hopefully
these organized pirates can be arrested and brought to justice so that no
one suffers the same consequences as we have. As in many similar incidents
it just so happens that there were commercial shrimp boats anchored off of
the Marina for several days prior and on the same night that our boat
vanished, the shrimp boats also were gone, quite a coincidence, does not
require being a trained detective to solve this case.
This week the combined panga fleets launching out of Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 59 charters and anglers accounted for a fish
count of: 5 striped marlin, 7 yellowfin tuna, 126 dorado, 325 sierra, 38
roosterfish, 12 jack crevalle, 5 amberjack, 14 cabrilla, 24 yellow snapper,
24 huachinango ( red snapper),
12 barred pargo, 3 dogtooth snapper and 22 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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