whiskey299 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) Caught at Browns Mountain 400m Edited September 2, 2019 by Blackfish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 wcurrall Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Southern boarfish i think. Apparently good eating, caught around seamounts. Japanese nearly fished them to extinction in the 80s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaceros_richardsoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Toilor Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Some type of Banjofish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 frankS Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Could be a juvenile Hapuka, . Second thoughts looks like "wcurrall " is on the money. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 letsgocrabbing Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 yep wcurrall is right. I have caught them a few times out there but knew them as armourheads. Found that name when searching for them originally and was the name the russkies called them that and an important commercial catch for them. True name is the boarfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 whiskey299 Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 1 hour ago, wcurrall said: Southern boarfish i think. Apparently good eating, caught around seamounts. Japanese nearly fished them to extinction in the 80s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaceros_richardsoni Thanks for responding everyone. wcurrall this looks to be the correct species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 wcurrall Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 5 minutes ago, whiskey299 said: Thanks for responding everyone. wcurrall this looks to be the correct species. How'd you go out at browns by the way? Was thinking of heading out the next couple of weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 whiskey299 Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 3 hours ago, wcurrall said: How'd you go out at browns by the way? Was thinking of heading out the next couple of weeks Heaps of large gemfish around, a few mirror dorys, no blueye cods. Water temp is very warm 20c compared to inshore 15c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) It seems they are also called Pelagic Armourhead (Pseudopentaceros richardsoni) as @letsgocrabbing said and I also found them under Nelson's Boarfish (Pentaceros richardsoni) as this fish was ID'ed as. Not sure why Nelson's Boarfish has the "Pseudo" left out. ??, but, they are still the same fish. Edited August 3, 2019 by Blackfish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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