Thread: Daily Fish

I thought it was about time we had a Daily Fish thread.

Partly because I'm bored and partly because I have an inexhaustible source or material.

All fish welcome!

I'll kick it off with a ling that had just caught a small whiting.

Fish love to swim ahead of the ROV and I guess they use the lighting to see prey. The small fish preying on the tiny fish often fall victim to the bigger fish following the small fish, as in this case.

Ling are a member of the cod family and are supposed to taste delicious, although I don't believe that I have ever tried one. They are called 'lange' in Norwegian, I guess because they are long.

That resolution is greater than I expected on an ROV. But then again, I’m not sure what I expected.

One thing you can say about mendy he knows his .................................................. . plaice

Originally Posted by DrWilly

That resolution is greater than I expected on an ROV.

That's what you get with a clean lens

Dug into my old diving photography photos. A Ribboned Sweetlips

Originally Posted by Mendip

camouflaged fish remind me a bit of Keir Starmer.

a particularly difficult bloater, but don't be a flake they've deferred plans to BARrAmendi

These fish jokes are a bit stinky.

I really don't want this to end up being a fish pun thread.

That would give me a real haddock!


It's always depressing to see the seabed of the North Sea this time of year, every Autumn (not Fall) there is evidence of mackerel dumping.

But of course, nothing goes to waste...

These ain't like the anemones in the rock pools of Lyme Regis when I were a kid... these monsters can take a whole mackerel.



And if you're wondering just how big these anemones are, a glove for scale... that a disgusted stewardess no doubt threw overboard after cleaning yet another hairy-arsed offshore contractor's toilet.



A family of molluscs enjoying another mackerel...



And a lucky crab!

What depth are you at?

That pipeline is between 100m and 110m water depth, or thereabouts.

Your plaice or mine?

Actually, maybe it's a sole?

Your a dab hand at this, I apologize for opening a whole newt can of worms, just I sardinely have these uncvntroll-able urchins to be flakier.

^ Exactly.


Good Cod!



And another... although this one looks a bit different. I think that there must be many cod sub-species.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I think that there must be many cod sub-species.

I think you are right. They may even have a latin family name..

Originally Posted by Mendip

this one looks a bit different. I think that there must be many cod sub-species.

Battered, with chips and peas, they'd look much the same.

A frogfish. Weird looking buggers.

^ Nice one Nid, another top quality picture.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Weird looking buggers.

I hear they speak very highly of you!


What does a Chinese phone say?

"Ling ling!"

I miss being able to get Huss in the chippy

Originally Posted by malmomike77

I miss being able to get Huss in the chippy

Brill,I Miss Barracuda he's always flipping here.
If I cannot find a dusky Grouper I'd go for a hunky Dory.

Tiz skate to sea ewe orf your perch and trout and about . Shad yer inhibitions sing as you tuna DIY skill and TileHappia , never mind the pollocks and Thank Cod it's Fry Days.

Frydays The Very Best Of British Fish & Chips - Seaton, Devon

Shell fish today, if that's not too self-centred.

I have frequently noticed that crabs and anemones live together, with anemones often seeming to congregate around a crab's nest.



Often, symbiotic relationships in nature such as this are mutualistic, with both species gaining something. I can see that the filter feeding anemones gain food from the detritus the crab leaves around after a meal, but what does the crab get out of this?



A classic mutualistic relationship often quoted is between the clown fish (Nemo) and anemones. The anemones provide protection from predators and left over food for the clown fish, and the clown fish clears the anemones of parasites.

But that doesn't seem relevant here.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Often, symbiotic relationships in nature such as this are mutualistic, with both species gaining something. I can see that the filter feeding anemones gain food from the detritus the crab leaves around after a meal, but what does the crab get out of this?

Are you suggesting that the anemone is shellfish and the crab is not?

Perhaps it’s more of a commensalism symbiotic relationship? The ‘host’ neither gains or loses by the closeness of the anemones.