{"id":1953,"date":"2010-02-01T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:35:06","slug":"steer-clear-of-grenadier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/02\/01\/steer-clear-of-grenadier\/","title":{"rendered":"Steer clear of Grenadier – aka Rattail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Open wide! Dr. Jeff Drazen of the University of Hawaii at Manoa holds a giant grenadier on a Monterey Bay deepsea cruise (photo: M. Boyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Erin Loury<\/a> Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n

No, this isn’t an elaborate fish puppet you’re looking at – it’s a Giant Grenadier caught in the depths of Monterey Bay on a research cruise.\u00a0\u00a0 If it looks a little worse for wear (that pink color is from all its scales falling off), it’s because the fish was pulled up from a depth of around 1,000 feet.\u00a0 Like most deepsea fishes, the different species of grenadier tend to grow slowly, reproduce late in life, and can live to be quite old (several decades) \u2013 all of which makes them susceptible to overfishing.<\/p>\n

Yes, believe it or not, fishing is a real issue for these squishy critters.\u00a0 Grenadier now makes an appearance on the West Coast version of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s new 2010 Seafood Watch pocket guides<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 And they’re in the red – that’s the “Avoid” section<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition to a slow-growing life history, the fishery for grenadier is virtually unregulated, and often the result of destructive deepsea trawling.\u00a0 This is all good news you can use\u00a0 \u2013 I recently saw grenadier on a menu for the first time.\u00a0 Now I know to steer clear.<\/p>\n

Curtailing demand for this fish probably wouldn’t be a problem if people only knew what it looked like \u2013 besides, how appetizing is something also called a “rattail”<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Thanks for the photo, Mariah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Erin Loury Ichthyology Lab No, this isn’t an elaborate fish puppet you’re looking at – it’s a Giant Grenadier caught in the depths of Monterey Bay on a research cruise.\u00a0\u00a0 If it looks a little worse for wear (that pink color is from all its scales falling off), it’s because the fish was pulled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fish"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}