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charlie
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 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: flat fish ID query |
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anyone like to suggest an ID for this flattie seen at 15m in a fjord please?
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Scotty Boy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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i dont think its a flounder if thats any use?? i should know, i killed about 30 of the buggers by hand not long ago!! i'm gona be witty and suggest that its a Norwegian TopKnot...but i'm fairly sure its wrong.
worst case scenario, put it in the logbook as "cool flattie", thats what i do!! |
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joe
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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It has pretty unusual eye's if thats anyhelp  |
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charlie
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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cheers, guys 
where's goose with his famous ID book? 
I thought of Microstomus kitt (lemon sole) but I'm willing to be corrected (memories of the "tusk"  )!
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gus
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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hello,
i like the lemon sole option but i'd like to bring the dab, Limanda limanda, into the ring. apparently they are hard to distingish between but the lateral line is the clincher and yours seems to be failrly curvy.
No way i could say for sure though if its bigger than 50cm and on or near rocks then its a fair chance its a lemon sole, according to Naylor.
my mothers favourite fish to eat so if you see one again bag it.
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charlie
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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cheers, gusman
guy on CA thinks it's a topknot
I'm not too sure
It wasn't massive as I recall... 30cm maybe... can't really remember 
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gus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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unless you have cleverly flipped the picture and made it back to front then its defo not a topknot, they are left hand sided (mouth to the left looking up the fish), or as naylor puts it 'both eyes have ended up on what was orinally the left hand side of the young fish.'
your fish is right hand sided like nearly all other flatfish.
your ca guy isnt correct in my opinion.
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