red scorpionfish, Scorpaena scrofa, in Guernsey waters

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Richard Lord

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Jun 7, 2010, 5:48:44 AM6/7/10
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Guernsey Sea Fisheries Officer Chris Morris boarded a UK scallop boat fishing inside Guernsey's 12 mile limit last Friday, 4 June 2010, and found a red scorpionfish, Scorpaena scrofa, which the UK fisherman had never seen before.  This fish was caught inside Guernsey's 12 mile limit in a scallop dredge.

Declan Quigley who records rare fish in Irish waters has reported two Scorpaena scrofa from Irish waters so far this year.  He writes "S. scrofa and S. porcus appear to be more frequently recorded over the last couple of decades than heretofore."  Declan has provided a spreadsheet of 17 records for Scorpaena sp. in UK and Irish waters.   Eleven of these records date from 1994 and the earliest from 1884.

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