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Article: West Coast dogfish find new respect. (includes related article)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Enterprising Pacific Northwest longliners and trawlers grind out a living with a legendary nuisance, stacking dogfish in their holds like cordwood and racking up nearly 500,000 lbs. a year.
As high-value, prime fish stocks fluctuate or even collapse, you can count on fishermen to look for alternative species to make do. There are those who say the lowly dogfish -- Squalus acanthias -- is about as alternative as it gets.
Viewed mainly as a net-tearing, catch-robbing nuisance, the dogfish's reputation among commercial fishermen -- on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts -- traditionally languished somewhere between warm beer and a case of the hives. But that's ...