I have seen some fossils that have been brought up in nets from the north sea. Have any of you fisherman ever brought up strange catch?

Dust Maker

Fishing the North Sea is a hard life, not only is the Industry dead up there, your just as likily to pull up an old sea mine or un exploded WW2 bomb hehe....Not to mention the North sea can cut up to an extent even the Bering sea would be impressed

Thanks for replying, I just realized that I posted in the wrong forum. OOps, my bad . Perhaps I'll take this question over to the other Topic where it may even get viewed. Thanks again,

Dust Maker

I never actually saw it,but a guy told me once about dragging up an old car in the Gulf of Alaska.

I've seen some coral dragged up in the Gulf that looks like it should have come from the tropics.There are some of the biggest barnacles anyone has ever seen in an office in King Cove.

I am acquainted with some fossil barnacles from Florida that were about two million years old. They were about two and a half inches across at the base. It could be that the strata that was hit by the drag line was from that epoch.

Dust Maker

Saw some mastadon bones that were caught on Georges Banks. Thought they were whale bones and found out they were not. Sea level must have been quite a bot lower back then.

A friend of mine once caught a nuc sub. They were pulled backwards untill they cut the ropes. It was a 63' shrimp boat. The Nave later paid for the lost nets.

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I am acquainted with some fossil barnacles from Florida that were about two million years old. They were about two and a half inches across at the base. It could be that the strata that was hit by the drag line was from that epoch.

Dust Maker

I am now in King Cove and got a chance to look at the barnacles in the office here.They are at least two inches across the base.I wonder if they are fossils?

We pulled up a couple of thirty two ounce bottles of Rainier Beer once, sure was cold and good too! in the same tow was a hatch door from a boat and some other junk, the tow was for P-Cod at the 100 fathom curve right out of dutch in 1981.

We delivered a cod end to the F/V Arctic Storm from the Pacific Fury that had something in it so big they couldn't get it up the stern ramp in 1987.

During Yellowfin Sole on the Fury in 1988 we pulled an orange crewman's suit out of the intermediate, nothing inside, I think it was from one of the Glacier boats.

One of the last tows of yellowfin "88" we ended up with a lost codend inside ours, that was a fun day.

As for big Barnacles, there is a spot in a bay on the other side of Hog Island that has huge living barnacles, we used to gab a few muscles from the rocks below the surface, ever seen a muscle that's ten inches long?.

Mussels, Mussels, the meds kicked in early.

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Mussels, Mussels, the meds kicked in early.

Glad you added that...I was about to brag...

Although not commercial fishing, the wierdest thing I've ever caught in a bottom trawl was a 4-ft. bright yellow stuffed Teddy bear! We were doing some fisheries surveys about a mile or so off NJ and trawled this monster up. (There are a couple Carnival towns along that stretch of coast).

The thing was saturated with water...I have no idea how much it weighed. At first (when the winch was straining) we thought we were stuck on a snag or had trawled up some tires or a chunck of a wreck, etc. Wishful thinking! Our winch was not as powerful as those on commerccial vessels and we only had a small manual crane, so landing this thing was an adventure. It crushed all the fish....what a mess.