Silver Dory update

Doug Herdson, from the Marine Fish Information Services laboratory at Plymouth, has kndly filled in the missing information regarding the Silver John Dory caught by Roger Nowell aboard the inshore trawler Imogen working off the Scillies earlier this week.

"The fish is a Sailfin or Silver Dory Zenopsis conchifer http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=336&genusname=Zenopsis&speciesname=conchifer). This is probably the tenth for the UK (plus eleven or more in Irish Waters), there was one at Milford Haven in June 2007, but all the rest have been landed at Newlyn; the first in June 1992 and the last in November 2008."

Doug goes on to say that he does not know of any Rosy Dories caught in British waters but there have been at least 3 in Ireland.