This fish caught by Brent Hanley near Hanois lighthouse off Guernsey's south-west coast on 15 October 2011 will be submitted as a British angling record.  It weighed 1 lb. 14 oz. and 3 drams.  The fish had suffered some damage to the second dorsal fin rays during its infancy.  Although the ray membrane was intact, five rays were missing. The ratio of the height of the dorsal fin lobe to the length of the pectoral fin keyed out to a Guinean or a greater amberjack, but the gill raker count was too high for these fish.  Based on the gill raker count alone, this fish was identified as an Almaco jack, Seriola rivoliana.

Jacks in the genus Seriola are becoming more frequent visitors to the western English Channel.  The first Seriola jack captured in Bailiwick of Guernsey records, was landed by George Staples on 7 September 2000 off the east coast of Herm Island.  This fish was identified, based on the gill raker count and the fin ratios as a Guinean amberjack, Seriola carpenteri, but some doubt has now been cast on the original identification, and the individual fish, which was destined for the Natural History Museum in London, can no longer be located.

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Guernsey commercial fisherman Steve Fallaize caught this 585 gram Greater amberjack,  Seriola dumerili, one mile off Rousse off Guernsey's north coast on the 9 December 2009.  The fish had a total length of 376 mm, a fork length of 328 mm, and a standard length of 299 mm.  The greater amberjack had 18 gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch. The lobe of the second dorsal fin was 54 mm high, and the pectoral fin was 51 mm long.  It was captured at 49 degrees 31.36 minutes north and 2 degrees 33.37 minutes west.
File No. 091209 343
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Two derbios, Trachinotus ovatus, on display at the municipal fish market, Mercado dos Lavradores, in central Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
File No.  27-511
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Unless you SCUBA dive the best place to see the wide variety of fish caught in Madeiran waters is to visit the Municipal fish market in Funchal or visit the concrete harbour wall at the small coastal town of Ribeira Brava on Madeira's south coast.  Here you will usually find recreational fishermen who land a wide variety of species from sharks to sea bream, jacks and even trumpetfish.  This guelly jack, Pseudocaranx dentex, was one of the many species landed by recreational fishermen on the harbour wall at Ribeira Brava.
File No. 30-518
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Tsukiji boxes of yellowtail 1290 2 smg
A bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus, shipped from Florida to Fulton Fish Market in New York city and sold on the 28th May 1992.
File No.  280592
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A cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda, sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City on the 23 August 1994.  The cottonmouth jack is well described.  The interior of its mouth is bright white.
File No. 230894
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A castin leatherjack, Oligoplites saliens, imported from Venezuela in October 1990 and on sale at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City.
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An Atlantic bumper, Chloroscombrus chrysurus, sold at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City in October 1991.  The Atlantic bumper is a member of the jack family, carangidae.
File No. 1091
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A cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda, sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City on the 23 August 1994. The cottonmouth jack is well described. The interior of its mouth is bright white.
File No. 230894
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A cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda, sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City on the 23 August 1994.  The cottonmouth jack is well described.  The interior of its mouth is bright white.
File No. 230894
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A cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda, sold at Fulton Fish Market in New York City on the 23 August 1994. The cottonmouth jack is well described. The interior of its mouth is bright white.
File No. 230894
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See photo in original gallery.