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3 September 2019
A
deep water oceanic tropical Tripletail,
Lobotes
surinamensis
was caught in a net at
Bridgwater
Bay (mid Bristol Channel). It was only the second record from around
Britain.
August
2019
"Watching
birds from Porthgwarra
in Cornwall, I followed a pod of Risso’s
Dolphins, Grampus
griseus, moving west. After they were
lost to view, I was still searching through my scope when a large fish
jumped out of the sea in the middle of my view. The view was for about
a second but I noted the following: about two metres long and powerful
looking, large rayed dorsal fin along its back, strikingly melon-shaped,
with a blunt forehead. This looks like a Dolphinfish,
Coryphaena
hippurus." Thisworldwide
tropical fish has not been definitely recorded in British seas before.
There
was an unconfirmed
previous sighting in the Camel
estuary, Cornwall on 1 August 2000.
21
August 2019
Pacific
Pink Salmon have been recorded in British
seas and rivers.
16
July 2019
The
very first BMLSS record of the Scale-rayed
Wrasse, Acantholabrus
palloni, was video-photographed
off the Isles of Scilly. Its prevalence in
British seas is not known because of too few reports.
Porcupine
Society article of records (by Mike Markey)
BMLSS
Wrasse
8 July
2019
A
2.5 metre long Swordfish,
Xiphias
gladius, was
washed up dead on the extensive sandy west facing beach at Berrrow,
between Brean and Burnham-on-Sea,
Somerset. The early morning unusual discovery was made by Graham
Parker.
BMLSS
Swordfish
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