sealord > European fish captured by commercial & recreational fishermen >  bogue Boops boops S Fallaize ©RLLord 090209 1392 smg
sealord > European fish captured by commercial & recreational fishermen >  Apletodon dentatus boulder field BG 170407 31-895 smg
sealord > Shore rockling, Gaidropsarus mediterraneus, are scarce on the Guernsey shore during the winter months but they seem to arrive in inshore waters and into the intertidal area before or during the largest set of spring tides in March. During the large spring tides of late march, anglers were catching shore rockling from the St. Peter Port harbour wall.  Shore rockling were numerous under boulders and cobbles in the intertidal area of Belle Greve Bay.  This individual was found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 20 March 2007.  The three-bearded rockling, which this species resembles, is not found in the intertidal area.  It also has a different skin colour and it has more pectoral rays than the shore rockling.
File No. BG 200307 35-893
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sealord > This female shore rockling, Gaidropsarus mediterraneus, was under some cobbles in a gully by Quaine Rock in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 20 March 2007.  The fish weighed 131 grams.
File No. BG 200307 1-892
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sealord > This black bream, Spondyliosoma cantharus, was caught by a recreational fisherman in Fermain Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 25 March 2007.  It had a total weight of 599 grams.  The fish exhibits bright blue colours around the eye, which suggests that the fish was breeding at the time of capture.  Black bream are protogynous hermaphrodites.  They begin life as females and become male between the sizes of 20 and 30 cm.  This specimen is most likely a male fish.
File No.  250307 7735
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sealord > A male sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus, with its brilliant blue eyes rests on the sand in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  Photographed on the 20 February 2007.
File No. BG 200207 8-881
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sealord > A male sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus, lies partially buried in the sand in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  This fish can bury itself remarkably quickly.  Photographed on the 20 February 2007.

File No. BG 200207 10-881
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sealord > These long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, eggs laid in 'crater rock pool' (see  http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) were seen first on the 5 February 2007 (see  http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#129298476 ).  One month later and most of them have hatched but a few eggs are still developing.  The eggs have eyes and some tails can be seen too.  These eggs were still protected by an adult long-spined sea scorpion but it swam away when I took the photograph.  The fish belong to the sculpin family, cottidae.  Photographed on the 5 March 2007.

File No. 050307 6837
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sealord > European fish captured by commercial & recreational fishermen >  Triplefin Tripterygion delaisi BG 050107 12-873 smg
bogue Boops boops S Fallaize ©RLLord 090209 1392 smg
European fish captured by commercial & recreational fishermen >  bogue Boops boops S Fallaize ©RLLord 090209 1392 smg
bogue Boops boops S Fallaize ©RLLord 090209 1392 smg
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