Fish id book

[salvelinus]

I know this is a bit of a cross post- but it is for a free book which covers coarse, game and sea species. I thought that those amongst you who travel to Ireland to wet a line would be interested.

 

Free fish id book "Irish Sport Fishes

A guide to their Identification" published by the central fisheries Board in Ireland is now available to all from the page below as a pdf.

 

http://www.cfb.ie/fishing_in_ireland/fish_id.htm

 

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[Norrie]

Hi, I printed it off, very informative, but, it does come out in a funny order.Not alphabetical as I expected, any reason for this.

[salvelinus]

I think there is some sort of evolutionary order. It starts with the sharks and rays and then goes on to bony fishes. I am not sure after that though.

 

I suppose an alpabetised index would not go astray... They might add it on if anyone wanted them too.

 

I have already suggested they add a couple of "new" species like bluemouth which has made it the Specimen Fish List it gets caught so regularly now. They said they would progress that idea.

[H.A.]

fer specie .....

 

try

 

http://www.fishbase.org/search.html

 

be patient and look for local refs

 

eg. UK

[Kieran Hanrahan]

I was talking to Myles, the CFB webmaster and there are a few omissions and one obvious error (they have their smoothhounds mixed up) and he says that a new version will be released very shortly - it may have been done so already. They also have very deep water species like shagreen rays listed which whilst technically accurate is a bit like expecting us to land Moby Dick on a fly rod! I see we have an albacore tuna record now, bar the ISFC verification and it was 60 miles off Kerry - fair dues ot the skipper!!!