PHOTO: Trawlin' For Pogies On The Sakonnet River
Did you see the vessel on the Sakonnet River Thursday, with surface netting catching fish?
No, that was not an oil spill Thursday on the Sakonnet River. A trawler gathered up the oily pogies to sell them for bait. One Tiverton Patch user sent an email wondering what the boat was doing out there. Tiverton Harbormaster Dave Vannier said this is a common fishing practice, although last year it wasn't such a big deal because there weren't large schools of pogies, technically known as menhaden, in the local waters, but it was in previous years. "I'm not sure if it was the hammering of the bridge," he said. He said the pogies are sold either for bait or for cat and other animal foods. "They grind them up and use the oils," Vannier said, noting the fish, when gathered in large groups, produces an oily slick that drips from their scales…
Narragansett Warrior
2:14 pm on Friday, May 25, 2012
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