Gurnard – Tub (Trigla lucerna)

Gurnard – Tub (Trigla lucerna)

Downings was the venue for Jeannette van den Berg’s Tub Gurnard in 2008

Downings was the venue for Jeannette van den Berg’s Tub Gurnard in 2008

Specimen weight: 2.268 kg (5 lbs)
Record: 12 lbs 3.5 oz, Bullsmouth, Achill, 1973

Lateral line a raised seam, not prickly or crossed by plates. Reddishbrown; pectorals very large, their inner sides with a vivid blue border at the tip (young may have a blue patch, with pale 11 polka dots,” on the inner aspect of the pectorals). Grows to over 10 lb. Common.

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