This fact must instill some jealousy among their finned brethren, like the striped bass.
The menu, while a bit pedestrian, offers good striped bass and (yes) great fries.
When it comes to striped bass, for instance, the health department recommends eating no more than one a month.
While Montauk is one of the world's premier destinations for striped bass, it's equally famous as a shark hot spot.
The tearing down of the dam has led to better habitat for salmon, sturgeon, striped bass and shad, among other species.
He pulls down the top of his wetsuit, revealing a tattoo covering his entire right shoulder: a skeleton catching a striped bass.
Before I have time to let that statement sink in, Melnyk rears back with his rod and hooks into a striped bass.
To the east was a tidal strait (the East River) teeming with striped bass, blackfish and fluke that came in with each replenishing tide.
Powers and Thomas have made some high-profile busts: earlier this year on a plainclothes assignment, they caught two poachers with 49 illegal striped bass.
With a friend, he took an underwater camera to the spot, and demonstrated that it was actually teeming with mussel beds, flounder and striped bass.
In a period of a little less than two hours, this quiet assassin landed 10 striped bass, using a jig and an expertly-wielded five-foot spinning rod.
Powers and Thomas routinely check out menus from restaurants ranging from the high end to the low end, looking for the key words: wild striped bass.
The conservation officers busted David Pasternack, an Iron Chef contestant, for attempting to sell illegal striped bass at his high-end and much-celebrated seafood restaurant, Esca.
The bust, the result of a seven-year sting operation, happened in the Chesapeake Bay, the primary spawning and nursery ground for striped bass on the east coast.
For his final Slow Food Fast contribution, Mr. Schwartz shares a variation that showcases striped bass topped with grapefruit segments and a refreshing slaw dressed in pink-peppercorn vinaigrette.
WSJ: Michael Schwartz's Striped Bass with Grapefruit and Pickled Radish
Standing on the bow of Captain Frank Crescitelli's 25-foot boat, preparing to cast a fly into Jamaica Bay, we expect another hit from a feisty bluefish or burly striped bass.
Striped bass works well here because it is dense, flaky and widely available though, for his restaurants, Mr. Schwartz says he would use a catch from local waters, such as triggerfish.
WSJ: Michael Schwartz's Striped Bass with Grapefruit and Pickled Radish
Thomas and Powers have a specific target in mind this morning, a man named Bob who they believe has been illegally catching striped bass off Breezy Point for many months.
They'd be back in the afternoon, each with a catch to sell, with nets to fold, with maybe a secret paper sack (illegal striped bass, to carry home for supper).
"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish--striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog)--then sell them on the black market.
But check this out: the state has Montauk, Long Island Sound and all the southern beaches of Long Island which, together, might make for the best striped bass, bluefish and false albacore fishing in the nation.
"There's just a cleaner way to catch striped bass...something that doesn't pollute the environment, that doesn't contaminate fish and doesn't represent a health hazard to the consumer of this fish, " says Ronald Domurat, a beach ranger and derby committee member.
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Myerson is a bit of celebrity in fishing circles as the owner of the all-tackle world record for striped bass, an 81.88-pound giant he caught off the coast of Connecticut in 2011, using his trademark rattle sinker attached to a live eel.
Welcome to urban angling, New York style, where if you can put up with a little floating trash, an occasional whiff of jet fuel and the cacophony of New York Harbor, you can catch fat, healthy striped bass, bluefish, weakfish--all of them safe to eat, in moderation.
Take too many menhaden and you damage the populations of bluefish and striped bass that feed on them. (Not so, says the company.) At the moment Omega Protein is allowed to fish only in the waters off six states, and two of those have caps on its harvests.
Striped bass are a big marine fish concern of the DEC not only because they are a prized game fish for recreational anglers, but also because they are full of PCBs, thanks to the General Electric plants upstream on the Hudson that pumped the contaminants into the water for 30 years until 1976.
Rather her hungry stare is directed towards my fork as it hangs over the lavishly minimalist dish of olive oil poached striped sea bass.
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