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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bock" <bockhouse_at_earthlink.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- ling?
> Thanks. I remember thinking that the ling were spectacularly ugly, and
> wondering why anyone would want to eat one. They also smelled bad.
>
> Actually, on that first fishing trip, the bridge hadn't been completely
> built yet. There were men in these huge cranes far atop the bridge posts,
> and my father told me they made a lot of money. I remember thinking that
> you couldn't pay me enough money to go up that high.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <EELReprah_at_aol.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:10 AM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- ling?
>
>
> > In a message dated 3/12/02 7:11:48 AM, bockhouse_at_earthlink.net writes:
> >
> > << When I was a kid, my father took me out on a fishing boat from
Hoboken,
> >
> > under the Verazzano Bridge and to the ocean. >>
> >
> > When I was a kid there was no Verazzano bridge and we caught ling in
> February
> > off the docks on Staten Island. They are a member of the cod family
(Genus
> > Molva, family Gadidae.) and different from Cobia (Family Rachycentridae,
> > COBIA Rachycentron canadum).
> >
> > Lee Harper
> >
>
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