Tag Archive for 'Guernsey fishing'
Catch and release of uncommon Guernsey grey gurnard
May 19th, 2011 by Richard Lord
Richard Seager with his party of recreational fishermen on Out the Blue landed a grey gurnard, Eutrigla gurnardus, on the afternoon of 19 May 2011. This species is uncommon in Guernsey waters but abundant elsewhere in northern European waters. An ICES report states that grey gurnard “is by far the most common gurnard in the […]
Potential Channel Island record sized megrim caught on 15 April 2011
April 17th, 2011 by Richard Lord
Mick Le Sauvage, drifting off the western edge of Godine bank to the south of Sark on 15 April 2011, landed the largest recorded recreationally-caught megrim, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis, in Channel Island waters. His megrim was caught at 1 pm at 49° 22.35 north and 2° 25.2 west using a smooth or red sandeel, Gymnammodytes semisquamatus, […]
Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda, a member of the tuna family caught near Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey on 21 November 2010
November 29th, 2010 by Richard Lord
Guernsey commercial fisherman Peter Merrien landed a fish he had never seen before while fishing for bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, near Hanois Lighthouse off Guernsey’s south-west coast on 21 November 2010. He caught a bonito, Sarda sarda, which is a member of the tuna family, scombridae. The fish was given to the author on 29 November […]
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