May 10th, 2011 by Richard Lord
In February 2011 Dr Waltraud Klepal, an electron microscopist in the Department of Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research at the University of Vienna, working in areas of interest to medical and biomedical researchers, sent an email requesting barnacle specimens. The email found its way to Guernsey and was forwarded to Guernsey commercial crab and lobster [...]
November 4th, 2010 by Richard Lord
This is a list of marine fish species that have been or could be found in Guernsey marine waters because of their occurrence in the English Channel. Lamprey family petromyzonidae Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus (not uncommon, increasing) Six-gill shark family hexanchidae Six-gilled shark, Hexanchus griseus (deepwater, [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Richard Lord
Commercial fisherman Steve Fallaize caught a two-banded sea bream, Diplodus vulgaris, in a gill net set one mile off L’Ancresse off Guernsey’s north coast. The net was set overnight and the fish was landed on the 29 January 2009.