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marineLife > popular all-time > A compass jellyfish, Chrysaora hysoscella, photographed in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 8 August 1997. Compass jellyfish arrive in Guernsey waters in July and August. They are often collected by children using dip nets off Guernsey's north and west coast beaches. File No. 32-21 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > Guernsey commercial fisherman Steve Fallaize was fishing for bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, on the Boue Blondel off Guernsey's west coast when he landed a bass with a sea lamprey attached. This lamprey was given to me on the 13 January 2007. It was photographed and released into Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Several weeks later a recreational angler reported catching a grey mullet, Chelon labrosus, in Belle Greve Bay with a sea lamprey attached. The size of the lamprey indicated that this specimen was most likely the one that I had released. File No. 130107 34-873 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > The polychaete worm Nereis fucata forms an unusual relationship with the hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus. The worm seeks out a hermit crab inhabiting an empty whelk shell by sensing when the hermit crab walks over the substrate. The worm will quickly come out of the substrate and penetrate the interior of the whelk shell. Sometimes the hermit crab will catch the worm before it can accomplish this. If the worm is successful in entering the whelk shell it will build itself a cocoon near the apex of the shell. When the hermit crab feeds the worm emerges from the shell to try and steal the hermit crab's food. The hermit crab often uses one of its right legs to push the worm back in the shell but eventually the worm will reach the hermit crab's mouth and steal the food. File No. 14-885 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > This large worm, Marphysa sanguinea, which can grow up to 60 cm long is known as 'verm' in Guernsey. It is a popular bait for recreational anglers. Anglers use a fork to dig this worm out of the gravel and mud of the sea-shore. This individual was captured in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. File No. 5-536 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007. It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA. I contacted them through the annelid email list - http://www.annelida.net/ For more information on this species please read the caption of the previous image. File No. 170407 27-895 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > This sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was photographed at the Guernsey Aquarium, which is open to the public. It was photographed on 7 February 2005 when it was delivered to the aquarium by a recreational angler who had found it attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, that he had caught. File No. 15-766 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > The brittlestar, Ophiotrix fragilis, collected from a crab pot off Guernsey's south coast. File No. 22-605 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
marineLife > popular all-time > This image is a montage made of images of fifty-four species of fish found in Guernsey waters. This montage was designed to be 20 cm x 14 cm at 300 dpi. This montage includes an image of the first Guinean amberjack, Seriola carpenteri, caught in the British Islands. It was caught on 7 September 2000 to the east of Herm Island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Another unusual species found in Guernsey waters is the European or Mediterranean moray eel, Muraena helena. Commercial species include bass, Dicentrarchus labrax; rays, Raja; breams, sparidae; flatfish such as turbot and brill, and codfishes such as pollack, Pollachius pollachius.
marineLife > popular all-time > The breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, can appear green or orange. It grows on the walls of the Gouliot cave system in Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. This cave system can be visited on foot during big low spring tides. Photographed on the 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 967 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
A compass jellyfish, Chrysaora hysoscella, photographed in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 8 August 1997. Compass jellyfish arrive in Guernsey waters in July and August. They are often collected by children using dip nets off Guernsey's north and west coast beaches.
File No. 32-21
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
> A compass jellyfish, Chrysaora hysoscella, photographed in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 8 August 1997. Compass jellyfish arrive in Guernsey waters in July and August. They are often collected by children using dip nets off Guernsey's north and west coast beaches. File No. 32-21 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
A compass jellyfish, Chrysaora hysoscella, photographed in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 8 August 1997. Compass jellyfish arrive in Guernsey waters in July and August. They are often collected by children using dip nets off Guernsey's north and west coast beaches.
File No. 32-21
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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