Thread: I hope you like redfish...

Just so happens on TV this morning, here in NC was a local Fishing show. They were anchored just outside Masonboro Inlet fishing for Cobia, migrating North, think they said it was May.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like cobia are a lot like salmon in the respect that they return to the area where they hatched to spawn. Tagged fish have proven that they migrate from south Florida along the gulf coast to as far as the Texas coast annually following the same routine over several years. If that's true, tightened up regulations could help gulf coast cobia. There is still a lot to be learned but studies have proven that stocked cobia are quick to adjust to the wild life so stocking should help also.

About 10,000 or so farmed cobia escaped last year off the Pacific coast of Ecuador last year. They aren't E. Pacific species, but seem to be adapting, and moving northward toward California. Good thing or bad thing? Oh, and they were mature. Adults.