The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.
Jimmy Santapaola Jr. and his crew of the Amanda Leigh are setting out early this year for monkfish off of New London, CT. Their catch will be sold primarily to the foreign market and presented on tables stuffed whole.
Monkfish live on the sea floor and can be found about 30 miles offshore this time of year. As the waters warm up in the spring they will go out about 70 miles. The 12″ mesh net used for trapping them will allow the small ground fish to swim through without being caught.
Photos © Kathy Chapman 2013
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Good Morning Gloucester 
Monkfish are big this way…I know as a kid we used to get horseshoe crabs and flounder under foot in lanes cove scare the daylights out of you when stepped down. Had anotheer flat like fish also not sure type but not a pretty one bottom also.
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