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Subject: RE: [glaucus] Brama
brama
Created by Richard Lord on 04 Dec 2005
12:20:55
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#1 of 1: Date Posted: 04 Dec 2005 12:20:55
by Richard
Lord   
The first time I visited Billingsgate Fish
Market in London was in
December 1981. The
first fish I saw and photographed was a Brama
brama.
It caught my attention because it wasn't
the usual haddock, cod or
plaice.
Over
many years Alwyne Wheeler wrote reports on "Rare
and Little-Known
fishes in British Seas" in the
Journal of Fish Biology. One of these
reports I
have is from Volume 7, Number 2 March
1975.
Alwyne Wheeler writes, "The 1969
invasion of the North Sea by Ray's
Bream (Brama
brama) continued into January 1970 with a further
16
records. This was followed by 38 more in
1970 and 27 in 1971. An
unusual feature,
already noted (Wheeler & Blacker, 1972), was
that eight
of these were from trawlers."
............ He continues, "also,
noteworthy
was the capture of two Ray's bream in the Irish
Sea - one in
the Menai Straits and the other in
Belfast Lough..... Only one specimen
was
reported during the summer of 1970: one caught on
feathers in
Mount's Bay,
Cornwall."
Figure 1 on page 185 of the
Journal shows two maps showing the
distribution
of captures of Brama brama for 1970 and
1971.
Alwyne Wheeler's two page report on
Brama brama continues, "Although
there were
only a dozen records from British waters in 1966,
the author
suggested that this number was more
than usual. ... This was followed
by an immense
invasion during 1967 which produced more than 70
records
from the western North Sea
alone."
From the North Sea coast of
Britain
1968 8 reports
1969 more than
60
1970 54 reports
1971 19
reports
"These figures only refer to
records known to the authors from the North
Sea
coast of Britain. ..... The only comparable
invasions of the North
Sea this century were in
1927 and 1952, during which there were
many
reports of Ray's bream from the shores of
the continent (Mead G.W. &
Haedrich, R.L.
1965 The Distribution of the oceanic fish Brama
brama.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. 134,
29-68)."
"It is not easy to relate the
occurrence of Ray's bream in the North Sea
to
hydrographic conditions, but it might be worth
while to investigate
the annual movements of
the water masses west and south of Britain,
to
find out if there has been an increased flow
northwards to bring this
fish into our waters
in such large numbers."
Alwyne Wheeler's
paper follows with a list of unusual fish reported
from
British waters. The Brama brama list is 2
1/2 pages long and includes
in many cases
details of location of capture and size of
fish.
(I am a little confused by the
numbers reported by Alwyne Wheeler as
the
opening sentences seem to disagree with the
number of reports quoted
later in the paper. I
presume the difference in number of
reports
relates to region but someone can
perhaps clarify this for me. I would
be
interested to know about Brama brama reports for
the 1980s and 1990s.
Has anyone plotted the
annual occurrence of these fish in
British
waters?)
Best
Wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Richard
Richard
Lord
Guernsey GY1 1BQ
Tel: 01481
700688
Fax: 01481 700699
Email:
fishinfo@guernsey.net
-----Original
Message-----
From: Declan T Quigley
[mailto:declanquigley@eircom.net]
Sent: 03
December 2005 18:28
To:
glaucus@smartgroups.com
Subject: Fw: [glaucus]
What fish is this?
> I would
be confident that it is a Ray's Bream (Brama
brama). They
appear
to
> have been
relatively "common" off the SW & W coast of
Ireland this
year.
> Significant numbers
were landed into Dingle (SW) and Killybegs (NW)
by
> Spanish long-liners over the last few
months.
>
> Declan Quigley
(Wicklow)
> ----- Original Message
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> From: "British Marine Life Study
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> To:
"GLAUCUS EFORUM"
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> Sent:
Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:44 PM
>
Subject: [glaucus] What fish is this?
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