It was a sunny day on Martha’s Vineyard,
and we were ready for another one of our adventures. My mom, my friend Logan, his mom, his sister
and I went to a beach called Lambert’s Cove.
As we were walking on the beach, we saw two grown-ups and a boy holding
a large net about five feet long. I
quickly ran over and asked them what they were catching. They were catching puffer fish and
silver-sided minnows. They caught them
by holding the two poles at either end of the net and pointing them
vertically. After that, they walked into
the water and pushed the ends of the poles into the sand at the ocean
floor. Then they waited about thirty
seconds and lifted the net horizontally and brought it back to the shore. There were lots of fish, but I was most
excited about the pufferfish. When the
pufferfish got scared they puffed up into a ball. Watch the video to observe them puff up. I got to hold the pufferfish. They felt rough. This was a very cool experience for me.
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Very interesting to learn that puffer fish can be found off the New England coast. I guess I always thought of them as tropical fish, but perhaps there are many varieties and they live in different habitats - I'll have to look that up! You wrote a very clear description of how the net was used to catch the fish - it really helped me picture it.
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