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What are these fish?

  • 19-03-2011 8:06pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭


    All deepwater species caught by the Killybegs fleet today while fishing for Blue Whiting out west of Donegal on the continental shelf edge. Anyone know what they are? Any help appreciated.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭thehamo


    bleedin mad lookin????

    on a serious note, first pic, a john dory?

    3rd pic, long one a garfish? actually dont know


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭jd


    Bottom pic, middle fish is, I think, an Orange Roughy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_roughy


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭jd


    rushnaldo wrote: »
    All deepwater species caught by the Killybegs fleet today while fishing for Blue Whiting out west of Donegal on the continental shelf edge. Anyone know what they are? Any help appreciated.

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    Could be a Rays Bream
    http://www.seaonscreen.org/vleet/content/eng/rays-bream.htm


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭jd


    rushnaldo wrote: »
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    A small Greenland Shark??


  • Registered Users Posts: 34 dody


    I think the 2 thin fish in the bottom picture are scabbard fish.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭stevecrow74


    1 deffo a rays bream
    2 yip tis a greenland shark
    3 possible Megrim
    4 possible scabbardfish
    5 possible smoothead
    6 deffo a Black scabbardfish
    7 deffo an Alfonsino
    8 deffo a Hatchetfish

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭dermo f


    I think 3. could be a greenland halibut


  • Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Cul a cnoic


    1st one is a rays bream alright. Interesting find there, you should send them off to the "Irish Skipper" mag, they always like to have photos of the more unusual catch...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    Number two isn't an immature nurse shark is it? I'm on mobile and its hard to see

    hatchet fish in the last pic is cute looking in a horrific kinda way


  • Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭stevecrow74


    mawk wrote: »
    Number two isn't an immature nurse shark is it? I'm on mobile and its hard to see

    hatchet fish in the last pic is cute looking in a horrific kinda way

    greenland shark, you can tell by the tail!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭rushnaldo


    Cheers for the info, all these fish are quite abundant through the blue whiting from the deep so i doubt if they are rare to those who fish the exteme deep out west. There is also a big white fish with red strings or ribbons coming off it but the head decomposes vey quick and is never on it by the time it gets ashore for a decent pic. Here is a better pic of number 3 up there, maye a cornish blackfish or greenland halibut?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭stevecrow74


    rushnaldo wrote: »
    Cheers for the info, all these fish are quite abundant through the blue whiting from the deep so i doubt if they are rare to those who fish the exteme deep out west. There is also a big white fish with red strings or ribbons coming off it but the head decomposes vey quick and is never on it by the time it gets ashore for a decent pic. Here is a better pic of number 3 up there, maye a cornish blackfish or greenland halibut?

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    ah yeah, better pic.. yeah its a cornish blackfish alright.. looked flatter in the other pic!! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 phurryphace


    Dem scabbard fish are nice to eat....had some in Madeira.


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