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This is a list of fish found in and around Great Britain, in both fresh water (lakes, rivers, streams and man-made pools) and salt water. This list includes species that are native to Great Britain, as well as those which have been introduced from other countries. This image has a few sizing issues. Apologies.
This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 308 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 60 different species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records to include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also ...
Freshwater fish. It has been argued that only nine species of freshwater fish are truly native to Ireland — five char species, pollan, eel, brown trout and Atlantic salmon — as Ireland's fresh water was entirely frozen during the last glacial period, only diadromous fish could repopulate Irish waters after the Ice Age.
Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine habitats in many ways, especially the difference in levels of osmolarity. To survive in fresh water, fish need a range of ...
Angler catfish (genus Chaca) Anglerfish (order Lophiiformes) Antarctic cod. Antarctic icefish (suborder Notothenioidei of order Perciformes) Antenna codlet (Bregmaceros atlanticus) Arapaima (genus Arapaima) Archerfish (genus Toxotes and family Toxotidae) Arctic char. Armored gurnard (family Peristediidae)
Lota mola Moreau, 1881. The common ling (Molva molva), also known as the white ling or simply the ling, is a large member of the family Lotidae, a group of cod-like fishes. It resembles the related rocklings, but it is much larger and has a single barbel. This species is unrelated to the pink ling, Genypterus blacodes, from the Southern Hemisphere.
The impressive diversity of fish species in this river has been known (and celebrated) since 1590, with poetry containing the earliest mention that the Trent contains 30 kinds of fish. The earliest actual list of fish in the river is from 1641. Over the centuries some species have since become locally extinct, and other species have been ...
There is a variety of the common rudd, popular among pond -keepers, known as the golden rudd, which has a gold-coloured body. [2] The rudd can grow to a size of about 45–50 cm with an average of about 25 cm. The dorsal fin and pectoral fins are greyish with a reddish tint and all the other fins are bright red.