Yellow Eye Piled High.



We made it back safely from our Prince William Sound trip. One of the main fish that we wanted to target was yellow eye. They are harder to catch than the other types of rock fish. We had a boat competition going and our oldest daughter won. Yellow eye are non-pelagic, which means non-open water. These type of fish cannot regulate their air bladder. When brought up from the depths, their air bladder inflates and protrudes out of their mouth. If released, they will float on the surface, unable to dive back down because of the inflated bladder, where they will die slowly at the mercy of attacking sea gulls. Thus, fishermen have to keep non-pelagic fish.