Day before yesterday Aaron on The Lady Margaret brought in this Triggerfish. In my 33 years down the dock and after handling a bajillion pounds of fish at our dock I’ve only seen a couple of these. The wikipedia page on Triggerfish is pretty interesting. It says they are normally found in warm coastal waters of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific. This one must have followed it’s way up the jet Gulf stream.
Click this text for the Triggerfish Wikipedia page
Video at 8AM Thursday where you can see just what happens to this particular fish.
Trigger Fish At Captain Joe’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I think you mean “Gulf Stream” as opposed to “jet stream”. That is, unless the triggerfish is a flying fish!
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LOL, what a dope I am. I’ll make the correction. Thanks Hedgie!
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Was he alive when he came in? That would be a cool aquarium fish, or maybe The NE Aquarium could take it. I’ve heard that all kinds of tropical fish hang out at the ouflow to the Salem Power Plant and several others in the area.
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Yep he was alive and still is. You’ll see what becomes of him in the video tomorrow.
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This post just got linked to by Bostonist. Nice!
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Feel like I’m in the Caribbean! Sure is a pretty fish….
Joey, you’ve had some stellar blogs lately – congrats! Adore your early morning shots…
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Got one in my lobster trap last August, released alive of course.
You guessed it – near the Salem Power Plant.
One wicked good blog; keep it up!
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We had one at the Heritage aquarium a couple of years ago. As I remember the Midnight Sun caught it south of the Cape.
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They’re catching triggers with a lot of frequency on rods off the OBX. Becoming a popular food fish down there.
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I wonder what kind of triggerfish this is. This wikipedia entry says the gray triggerfish can be found from Nova Scotia to Argentina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Triggerfish
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