two-banded bream Diplodus vulgaris 140611 ©RLLord 8588 smg
white bream Diplodus sargus 140611 ©RLLord 8587 smg
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
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This white bream, Diplodus sargus, was caught by Troy Waterman fishing off Ozanne Steps north of Fermain Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 26 October 2011. The fish had a total weight of 14 ounces and 8 drams. 

It had a total length of 264 mm, a fork length of 232 mm, and a standard length of 199 mm.  

White bream are recent arrivals to Guernsey waters; they are being caught with increased frequency.

File No. 261011 8550
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A king soliderbream, Argyrops spinifer, imported from Oman into Fulton Fish Market, New York in April 1989.  The fish weighed 2948 grams.
File No. 23 0489
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A gilthead sea bream, Sparus auratus, from Guernsey waters.
File No. 3-172
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two-banded bream Diplodus vulgaris 140611 ©RLLord 8588 smg
two-banded bream Diplodus vulgaris 140611 ©RLLord 8588 smg
two-banded bream Diplodus vulgaris 140611 ©RLLord 8588 smg
See photo in original gallery.