sealord > This skipper or saury, Scomberesox saurus, was caught by recreational angler Roger Wheatland over Hurd Deep in the English Channel on the 12 September 2007.  It was landed in Alderney and submitted as a Bailiwick of Guernsey angling record.  I photographed the fish on 14 September 2007.  It had a total weight of 70 grams and a total length of 304 mm measured to the tip of the lower jaw.

File No. 120907 996
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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
sealord > This small sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was captured while attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, by Guernsey commercial fisherman Steve Fallaize on 13 January 2007.  I took this picture when I released the lamprey back into the sea.  It was released into a tide pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 5 February 2007.  Towards the end of April 2007 a spear fisherman caught a grey mullet in Belle Greve Bay with a lamprey attached to it.  The lamprey was about the same size as the one released.  The spear fishermen removed the lamprey from the grey mullet and the lamprey swam away quickly.
File No. 050207 6285
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sealord > This long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, was spotted nearby while finding a tompot blenny, Parablennius gattorugine; a five bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela; and two long-spined sea scorpions under one boulder in a shallow pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007.  This long-spined sea scorpion has a parasitic isopod, Anilocra frontalis, attached to the right side of the head.
File No. 040207 5950 
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This skipper or saury, Scomberesox saurus, was caught by recreational angler Roger Wheatland over Hurd Deep in the English Channel on the 12 September 2007. It was landed in Alderney and submitted as a Bailiwick of Guernsey angling record. I photographed the fish on 14 September 2007. It had a total weight of 70 grams and a total length of 304 mm measured to the tip of the lower jaw.

File No. 120907 996
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This skipper or saury, Scomberesox saurus, was caught by recreational angler Roger Wheatland over Hurd Deep in the English Channel on the 12 September 2007.  It was landed in Alderney and submitted as a Bailiwick of Guernsey angling record.  I photographed the fish on 14 September 2007.  It had a total weight of 70 grams and a total length of 304 mm measured to the tip of the lower jaw.

File No. 120907 996
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This skipper or saury, Scomberesox saurus, was caught by recreational angler Roger Wheatland over Hurd Deep in the English Channel on the 12 September 2007. It was landed in Alderney and submitted as a Bailiwick of Guernsey angling record. I photographed the fish on 14 September 2007. It had a total weight of 70 grams and a total length of 304 mm measured to the tip of the lower jaw.

File No. 120907 996
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
See photo in gallery

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