Fishing in Guernsey
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
within the Bailiwick of Guernsey is common place. The Bailiwick
Bailiwick
A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and may also apply to a territory in which the sheriff's functions were exercised by a privately appointed bailiff under a royal or imperial writ. The word is now more generally used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of...
is made up of several islands in the Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
, namely (Herm
Herm
Herm is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public and is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Cars are banned from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark. Unlike Sark, bicycles are also banned...
, Sark
Sark
Sark is a small island in the Channel Islands in southwestern English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. It is a royal fief, geographically located in the Channel Islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population...
, Alderney
Alderney
Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick...
and Guernsey
Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
).
Fishing in Guernsey offers a large range of species available to catch which will involve many different styles of fishing to adopt and learn to become successful.
Most common fish caught off the Bailiwick shores are:
- BassBass (fish)Bass is a name shared by many different species of popular gamefish. The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning "perch."-Types of basses:*The temperate...
- Bream
- GarfishGarfishThe garfish , or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, etc. The fish lives close to the surface and has a migratory pattern similar to that of the mackerel, arriving a short time before...
(longnose) - MackerelMackerelMackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. They may be found in all tropical and temperate seas. Most live offshore in the oceanic environment but a few, like the Spanish mackerel , enter bays and can be...
- PollackPollackPollack is a surname, and may refer to:* Alan W. Pollack, musicologist* Andrea Pollack , swimmer* Ben Pollack , drummer and bandleader* Brittany Pollack, New York City Ballet dancer* David M. Pollack, , American football linebacker...
- WrasseWrasseThe wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 82 genera, which are divided into nine subgroups or tribes....
Many more fish are in abundance around the shores.
Guernsey records
| Fish | Guernsey Record | Year | Location | British Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglerfish Anglerfish Anglerfishes are members of the teleost order Lophiiformes . They are bony fishes named for their characteristic mode of predation, wherein a fleshy growth from the fish's head acts as a lure; this is considered analogous to angling.Some anglerfishes are pelagic , while others are benthic... |
38-0-0 | 05-Jul-1974 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1967 - 68-2-0 |
| Bass Bass (fish) Bass is a name shared by many different species of popular gamefish. The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning "perch."-Types of basses:*The temperate... |
18-6-5 | 23-Oct-1999 | Pembroke | 1988 - 19-0-0 |
| Bream, Black | 6-8-6 | 31-Oct-2001 | Creux Harbour, Sark | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Bream, Couchs Sea | 2-15-1 | 04-Aug-2006 | St Peter Port Breakwater | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Bream, Gilthead | 8-2-2 | 04-Sep-1983 | St Sampsons Breakwater | 1995 - 10-5-8 |
| Bream, Red | 4-7-0 | 19-Sep-1979 | Alderney Lighthouse | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Brill Brill (fish) The brill, Scophthalmus rhombus, is a species of flatfish in the turbot family of the order Pleuronectiformes. Brill can be found in the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, and Mediterranean, primarily in deeper offshore waters.... |
7-7-8 | 07-Nov-1980 | Vazon Bay | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Cod Cod Cod is the common name for genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name for various other fishes. Cod is a popular food with a mild flavor, low fat content and a dense, flaky white flesh. Cod livers are processed to make cod liver oil, an important source of... |
29-0-0 | 28-Dec-1981 | Lancresse Bay | 1966 - 44-8-0 |
| Conger Conger Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to 3 m in length, in the case of the European conger... |
65-14-10 | 20-Sep-2000 | Bec Du Nez | 1992 - 68-8-0 |
| Dab Common dab The common dab, Limanda limanda, is an edible flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish native to shallow seas around Northern Europe, in particular the North Sea, where it lives on sandy bottoms down to depths of about... |
1-9-1 | 09-Aug-1981 | Fort Doyle | 1936 - 2-9-8 |
| Dogfish Small-spotted catshark The small-spotted catshark or lesser spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelves and uppermost slopes off Norway and the British Isles south to Senegal, including the Mediterranean between latitudes 63° N and 12° N. Its... , Lesser Spotted |
2-13-11 | 01-Oct-2004 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1988 - 4-15-3 |
| Eel Eel Eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and approximately 800 species. Most eels are predators... , Common |
3-15-4 | 11-Sep-1987 | Albert Pier | 1978 - 11-2-0 |
| Flounder Flounder The flounder is an ocean-dwelling flatfish species that is found in coastal lagoons and estuaries of the Northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.-Taxonomy:There are a number of geographical and taxonomical species to which flounder belong.*Western Atlantic... |
5-6-13 | 23-Dec-1998 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1994 - 5-7-0 |
| Garfish Garfish The garfish , or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, etc. The fish lives close to the surface and has a migratory pattern similar to that of the mackerel, arriving a short time before... |
2-11-11 | 01-Dec-2002 | Crown Pier | 1995 - 3-4-12 |
| Gurnard, Red Red gurnard The red gurnard, Chelidonichthys spinosus, is a fish in the genus Chelidonichthys.... |
2-4-6 | 06-Aug-2000 | L'Ancresse | 1976 - 2-10-11 |
| Gurnard, Tub Tub Gurnard The tub gurnard, Chelidonichthys lucerna is a species of bottom-dwelling coastal fish with a spiny armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom... |
5-9-1 | 26-Jun-2005 | Chouet | 1976 - 12-3-0 |
| John Dory John Dory John Dory, also known as St Pierre or Peter's Fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible benthic coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin... |
3-3-4 | 18-Aug-1967 | St Peter Port | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Mackerel Mackerel Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. They may be found in all tropical and temperate seas. Most live offshore in the oceanic environment but a few, like the Spanish mackerel , enter bays and can be... |
2-13-0 | 03-Aug-1977 | White Rock | 1982 - 5-11-14 |
| Mullet Mullet (fish) The mullets or grey mullets are a family and order of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times... , Golden Grey |
3-0-4 | 11-Oct-1991 | Cats Bay, Alderney | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Mullet, Red | 3-15-0 | 01-Oct-1996 | Longy, Alderney | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Mullet, Thick Lipped | 11-14-6 | 24-Mar-1985 | Longy, Alderney | 1979 - 14-2-12 |
| Mullet, Thin Lipped | 2-3-3 | 13-Oct-2002 | QEII Marina | 1991 - 7-0-0 |
| Plaice Plaice Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfishes.Plaice or PLAICE may also refer to:* USS Plaice , a Balao-class submarine* PLAICE, an open source hardware FLASH programmer, memory emulator, and logic analyzer... |
8-3-4 | 08-Dec-1985 | Bordeaux | 1989 - 8-6-14 |
| Pollack Pollack Pollack is a surname, and may refer to:* Alan W. Pollack, musicologist* Andrea Pollack , swimmer* Ben Pollack , drummer and bandleader* Brittany Pollack, New York City Ballet dancer* David M. Pollack, , American football linebacker... |
16-1-6 | 21-Dec-1998 | Alderney Lighthouse | 1986 - 18-4-0 |
| Pouting Pouting Pouting may refer to:* Pouting , a contraction of the muscles in the lips* Pouting , a fish found along the European coast... |
4-9-0 | 07-Jul-1991 | Pembroke | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Ray Batoidea Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families... , Blonde |
32-8-0 | 07-Dec-1986 | Mannez, Alderney | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Ray Batoidea Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families... , Marbled Electric |
12-5-14 | 27-Oct-1995 | Alderney Breakwater | 1990 - 13-15-11 |
| Ray Batoidea Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families... , Small Eyed |
14-7-10 | 04-Dec-1993 | Corblets, Alderney | 1991 - 15-0-8 |
| Ray Batoidea Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families... , Spotted |
4-11-8 | 04-Jul-1982 | Herm Island | 1980 - 8-5-0 |
| Ray Batoidea Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families... , Undulate |
19-0-12 | 05-Dec-1996 | Alderney, South Coast | 1983 - 21-4-0 |
| Rockling, Shore Shore rockling The Shore rockling is a mottled brown small elongated fish. This eel-like fish has 3 barbels on its head, with 2nd Dorsal fin and Anal fin running the long most of its body... |
1-0-4 | 17-Jun-2006 | Bordeaux Harbour | 1992 - 1-9-12 |
| Rockling, Three Beared Three-bearded rockling The Three-bearded rockling is found in European waters from the central Norwegian coast and the Faroe Islands, through the North Sea and around the British Isles to the region around the Western Mediterranean. They can grow to a maximum length of 60 cm... |
2-10-10 | 01-Dec-1987 | Alderney Breakwater | 2001 - 3-12-14 |
| Salmon Salmon Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true... , Coho |
1-8-1 | 21-Jun-1977 | Petit Port | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Sea Trout | 4-11-2 | 17-Apr-1999 | Salerie | 1992 - 28-5-4 |
| Shad Shad The shads or river herrings comprise the genus Alosa, fish related to herring in the family Clupeidae. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers. The several species frequent different areas on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea.... , Twaite |
1-10-8 | 06-Dec-1994 | Belgrave Bay | 1978 - 2-12-0 |
| Smooth Hound | 6-5-2 | 29-Jan-2005 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 2000 - 20-3-0 |
| Smooth Hound, Starry | 14-9-2 | 02-Feb-2006 | Alderney Breakwater | 1972 - 23-2-0 |
| Sole Sole (fish) Sole is a group of flatfish belonging to several families. Generally speaking, they are members of the family Soleidae, but, outside Europe, the name sole is also applied to various other similar flatfish, especially other members of the sole suborder Soleoidei as well as members of the flounder... , Common |
6-8-10 | 13-Sep-1991 | Alderney South Coast | Same as Guernsey Record |
| Tadpole Fish | 0-15-8 | 01-Jun-1995 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1990 - 1-5-12 |
| Triggerfish Triggerfish Triggerfishes are about 40 species of often brightly colored fishes of the family Balistidae. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific... |
3-10-12 | 22-Aug-2004 | Hog's Back, Sark | 1995 - 5-14-8 |
| Whiting Whiting Whiting is the name of several species of fish:*Merlangius merlangus, the original species to receive the name; a common food fish of the cod family found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean around Europe and the Mediterranean regions... |
2-3-12 | 25-Jan-1992 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1984 - 4-0-7 |
| Wrasse Wrasse The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 82 genera, which are divided into nine subgroups or tribes.... , Ballan |
8-10-13 | 27-Mar-1993 | St Peter Port Breakwater | 1998 - 9-1-0 |
| Wrasse Wrasse The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 82 genera, which are divided into nine subgroups or tribes.... , Cuckoo |
1-12-9 | 17-Oct-1999 | Rosaire, Herm | Same as Guernsey Record |
Locations
Caught Record Fish LocationsGuernsey
St Peter Port
Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2001 was 16,488. In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port. The "port" distinguishes this parish from...
breakwater is good fishing for many species. Located just passed Castle Cornet
Castle Cornet
Castle Cornet is a large island castle in Guernsey, and former tidal island, also known as Cornet Rock or Castle Rock, which has been part of one of the breakwaters of St Peter Port's harbour, the main one in the island, since 1859.- Geography :...
in the town of St Peter Port. The breakwater is a light house on the end of a pier. It offers easy access and safe fishing although it can be a very busy site due to this facts.
Pembroke - L'Ancresse - Chouet (All 3 locations are in very close proximity to each other and boast 5 Bailiwick Records (Bass, Cod, Red Gurnard, Tub Gurnard and Pouting)) Located on the North West coast of Guernsey, The lancresse area offers sandy beaches with eay access for rock fishing or beach.
White Rock - QEII Marina - Albert Pier - Crown Pier - Salerie (The White Rock no longer exists due to Land reclamation
Land reclamation
Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, is the process to create new land from sea or riverbeds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamation ground or landfill.- Habitation :...
, which created the QEII Marina - These sites held 4 Records (Eel Common, Sea Trout, Garfish, Mackrel and Thin Lipped Mullet)) All 4 locations are situated in St Peter Port town. They are the piers and that separate the 3 marina's, Albert, Crown and QEII, all 4 of which are also car park areas.
Alderney
Alderney Breakwater Location of 3 Baliwick Records (Starry Smooth Hound, Three Beared Rockling, Marbled Electric Ray)
External links
- Tackle Direct 2 U - Local Guernsey fishing tackle shop