Commercially and recreational captured fish from European marine waters including the North Atlantic, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Mediterranean.
This couch's sea bream, Pagrus pagrus, captured by Richard Le Prevost on 9 September 2011 weighed 4205 grams. At the time of capture this was a British angling record.
This fish is known as a red porgy in the USA and the FAO of the United Nations refers to it as a common sea bream. In Britain the fish is named after Dr. Jonathan Couch from Polperro, Cornwall, who first identified the fish from a single specimen, which was captured three miles south of Polperro, Cornwall on the 8 December 1842. Dr Couch was the author of the four volume "The History of the fishes of the British Isles."
File no. 090911 9478
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This fish is known as a red porgy in the USA and the FAO of the United Nations refers to it as a common sea bream. In Britain the fish is named after Dr. Jonathan Couch from Polperro, Cornwall, who first identified the fish from a single specimen, which was captured three miles south of Polperro, Cornwall on the 8 December 1842. Dr Couch was the author of the four volume "The History of the fishes of the British Isles."
File no. 090911 9478
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This couch's sea bream, Pagrus pagrus, captured by Richard Le Prevost on 9 September 2011 weighed 4205 grams. At the time of capture this was a British angling record.
This fish is known as a red porgy in the USA and the FAO of the United Nations refers to it as a common sea bream. In Britain the fish is named after Dr. Jonathan Couch from Polperro, Cornwall, who first identified the fish from a single specimen, which was captured three miles south of Polperro, Cornwall on the 8 December 1842. Dr Couch was the author of the four volume "The History of the fishes of the British Isles."
File no. 090911 9478
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This fish is known as a red porgy in the USA and the FAO of the United Nations refers to it as a common sea bream. In Britain the fish is named after Dr. Jonathan Couch from Polperro, Cornwall, who first identified the fish from a single specimen, which was captured three miles south of Polperro, Cornwall on the 8 December 1842. Dr Couch was the author of the four volume "The History of the fishes of the British Isles."
File no. 090911 9478
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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