Thread: Daily Fish

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ I think my problem runs a little deeper than that.

Admission is the first step to recovery.

^ I like a girl in a sexy bunny costume... doesn't make me a bad person, does it?


An esteemed TD wildlife photographer reckons that the stripy fish is a zebra seabream. (I figured it would be a 'zebra' something or other).

A bit of research on the interweb seemed to confirm this identification and Wikipedia says...

The zebra seabream
Diplodus cervinus is found in the eastern AtlanticOcean from the Bay of Biscay to Mauretania, including the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands, into the Mediterranean Sea but not the Black Sea. This is a benthopelagic species, found at depths between 30 and 80 m (98 and 262 ft) over rocky substrates but over sand substrates it can be found down to 300 m (980 ft).

I can't recall ever seeing one off Norway before which is not surprising when you consider it's known distribution.

Climate change?

Years ago when working in West Africa there was an organsiation called 'Serpent', French I think, who we sent pictures/video of any fish/marine organisms we came across. Our surveys cover huge transects across ocean floors for which the cost would be prohibitive for wildlife organsiations. Why not use our data?

Anyway, these zebra seabream are like bloody buses...

Here's another...



And another...



In fact they were bloody everywhere for a couple of kilometres.


But anyway, a familiar friend.

The wife gives me one of these most days...

A small haddock!



Instantly recognisable by the black 'thumb print' on it's side.

Also known as the 'Devil's Thumbprint'.

But the wife doesn't give me any thumbprint.

No Siree, I wear the troosers round here!

Originally Posted by Mendip

But the wife doesn't give me any thumbprint.

No Siree, I wear the troosers round here

Originally Posted by Mendip

No Siree, I wear the troosers round here!

I beg to differ, a picture speaks a thousand words

I've got another haddock.

Is it to scale?

No Siree, I wear the troosers round here!

perhaps you mean round here being the boat youre on while being 1,000s of miles away…


I bet you don’t dare say that when you’re in Korat and she’s in hearing distance!











because I know I wouldn’t!

A Welsh starfish.

^ Having two opposable thumbs makes the sheep easier to hold, I reckon.

Originally Posted by Topper

^ Having two opposable thumbs makes the sheep easier to hold, I reckon.

That’s why they wear gumboots. Stick each back leg of the sheep into the gumboots, so they can’t run away. And if you hold them near a cliff top the sheep push back harder.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Lazada, and gets bombarded with pictures of skantily clad Asian girls in crotchless knickers

Please send links for in depth research as this type of bare cheeked affrontery needs reporting

Looks like Reg Dingle's on the goat piss Heineken again!



Maybe he'll have a haddock today?

Racing from Haddock Park?

^ You could put a bet on Coral?


A rare colony of coral that hasn't been obliterated by the trawlers...

A couple of nice cod as well!



When the American drillers came to develop the North Sea in the 1960s they struggled to drill through the boulder clay deposits that extend across much of the north. The Yanks were used to the soft, homogenous upper sediments of the deep water Mexican Gulf and the non-homogeneous, boulder-rich, over-consolidated glacial clay presented new challenges. The ice sheet sat on the boulder clay, compressing the sediment and depositing boulders which have remained exposed on the seabed for the last 10,000 years or so.



It also causes problems for pipelines of course, but provides great hiding places for monkfish.

That's interesting. Your geology degree I take it was focused on oil and gas what they call soft rock geology? Apart from being a juggy on seismic crews in the Australian desert in my teens. That's all I know about it. We used used all kinds of methods to find indicators of oil or gas before committing to drilling a hole in the ground. Thumper. Vibe trucks. Explosives. A mate worked on a seismic vessel in Indonesia. Said it was a similar concept to gather data. Geophones laid out in a spread

Originally Posted by BLD

being a juggy

is that strine for a chap who mugs joggers

^^ My geology degree wasn't focused on oil and gas mate, but it was mainly soft (sedimentary) rock with a bit of biology thrown in. I've always like fossils.

My work concerns unconsolidated sediments, not even proper rock. It's all associated with the development of oil field infrastructure on the seabed and pipelines, and increasingly electricity cables in the renewable industry. There is little difference in surveying a pipeline route or a cable route (or inspecting an existing pipeline or cable). In the exploration industry, the seismics may penetrate several hundreds of metres, or kilometres, into rock to find hydrocarbons. Our seismics penetrate just metres into the seabed depending on sediment, with a maximum of maybe 30m into very soft clay. Our equipment is too high frequency to penetrate bedrock (or the boulder clay), which will form the acoustic basement of any project.

Anyway, squid eggs... I think.

I fear I'm on squid roe somedays as I look into that shaving mirror and see my old uncles gazing back.

Fine work young Mendy rumour has it that while lacking votes for cockwomble you may retain "poster of the year"

A brittle sun star.




A crab wearing an anemone toupee!




A bucket of water (an old pipeline inspection joke).

A small ray.

Originally Posted by Mendip

A bucket of water (an old pipeline inspection joke).

There's probably a recurring 'The tide is in' joke in your field too, one would imagine.





Great thread, cheers.

Originally Posted by Edmond

There's probably a recurring 'The tide is in' joke in your field too, one would imagine.

Not really, we try to avoid corny puns and we're all in the same boat.

Anyway, what's next in the pipeline...

How about a nice coral?

In years gone by, while on night shift when the grown ups were asleep, I managed to get the ROV guys to collect me a nice piece of Brazilian coral for my fish tank. Those days are long gone of course, HSE, time is money, and all that.

And it was dead coral, in case my conservationist credentials are under suspicion.