Description: The Atlantic cod have heavy and tapered body, with a prominent chin barbel, a large mouth, projecting upper jaw, and many small teeth. Its snout is rounded on top, and the tail is almost squared. There is a characteristic pale lateral line, 3 dark dorsal fins and 2 dark...
Description: The coalfish is a member of the cod family. They are common all around the British Isles and Ireland. They are particularly fond of wrecks, rocks and kelp forests, keeping quite close to these features. Younger fish will be found closer to the shore, again particularly around rocks –...
Description: Gray Flounder has deep, compressed, pear-shaped body elliptical in profile, its height slightly exceeding half its length. They have a small head and a very small mouth, its cleft less than diameter of orbit, its angle reaching about to vertical through anterior margin of lower eye. Eyes are small...
Colouration A wide colour band with shallow water conger living close to sand being a dull matt brown with a pale white or cream belly. Reef conger are steely grey, occasionally with paler patches. Deep water rock dwelling conger are grey to green, some turning almost black. Wreck conger take...
