69 Street Pier , Brooklyn.

Passed there today as well. 2 draggers working just south of the VZ. Been there for a few weeks now. Makes you wonder how many bass get caught and don't make it up river.........

I passed the pier yesterday with my bike… fairly productive with our local fish…

noticed some fellas hooking very large spearing… found out later it was Herring, heard they are not very good eats… cell…
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love pickled herring

love pickled herring

maybe thats the only way to kill the taste… 😛

Foodies claim that grilled herring is delicious, but if grilled herring is, then grilled alewives and bunker would also be "delicious", and we all know how that would work out.

I tried a grilled herring appetizer at one of Portland's "shrine of the foodies" a few years back and it was far from being barely palatable. Didn't even finish it...

draggers are safety boats for wind company

draggers are safety boats for wind company

Well.....I'm no expert but I think when they travel back and forth over the same area with those steel booms in the down position they're fishing.....lol

I am next to them they are not fishing i am next to them they are safety boats with stabilizers out keep thinking what you want or ride next to them and find out

Was wondering what those boats were doing. I tried searching for info and couldn’t find anything relevant. Do you know the scope of what they are doing?
Is that big work barge with the cable reel part of it also?

I am not sure but I think they are running cable for empire wind but not sure

They are . I’m working on a tug now . You can see the big cable layer in Gravesemd Bay . Connecting the windmills to the pier station in Gowanus

speaking of Gravesend Bay, ya know the overpass to Bay 8 streets, as a youngster, i remember passing through on bicycle path and from the out flow there, seagulls would swim / hangout / nearby ( never understood why )…

ahead 60 years with bicycle from downtown manhattan, rolling through the area i could smell the strength of waste and nearer too the outflow the same bunch of gulls swimming about amongst the floating garbage waiting for tidbits… i noticed the strong discoloration of the drain water from the much clearer water bay water..

i’m guessing the Fisherman along the rails aren’t familiar with this, made me sad… cellfish…
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They are . I’m working on a tug now . You can see the big cable layer in Gravesemd Bay . Connecting the windmills to the pier station in Gowanus

Thanks for that. It's hard to find any real info on their progression.