shore rockling?????

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#1 Post by **jonny gilbert** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:19 pm

can anyone tell me the difference between a shore rockling and the 3 and 5 beard rockling cause ive heard everyone talkin about the shore rockling and i have no idea what the difference is??????

#2 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:35 pm

there a few different species of rockling

the ones in question:

3 bearded rockling :
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... hp?id=1876

5 bearded rockling :
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... hp?id=1290

and shore rockling :
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... hp?id=1740

hope this gives you what you need to know
for other species check here
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
e.g. enter rockilng in common names section then change contains to end with

then sort by country, submit .. and there you go...

#3 Post by **Ronald** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:07 am

A shore rockling is generally dark bodied with light coloured spots ,three bearded are light coloured body with dark spots .

#4 Post by **stevecrow74** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:21 am

R.Surgenor wrote:A shore rockling is generally dark bodied with light coloured spots ,three bearded are light coloured body with dark spots .

i dunno about that, the 3 B rockling is a deep orange, with dark spots, 5 B rockling are generally smaller and paler with hardly any spots. and shore rockling can be as big as the 3 B rockling but paler than the 5 B rockling...

thats going by the ones i've caught in the past, also see previous post...

#5 Post by **kieran** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:42 am

Hi

Fishbase is definitely the best resource here. Pity the poor buggers in the ISFC trying to sort this one out. If I recall I have a piece in next month's Irish Angler which tries to explain identification... and there's a couple more species btw which have not been mentioned here yet!!!

Sure slugs are slugs...

#6 Post by **stevecrow74** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:48 am

only other ones i can think of is the artic, northern and four bearded rockling..

i dont think there are any more around our coast, and you'ld be very lucky to catch more than three of the species...

#7 Post by **Ronald** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:51 am

The only way to confuse the five bearded with the shore is if you cant count

as for id of shore and three bearded ,I could be wrong I dont catch many of them

#8 Post by **Davy Murdoch** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:41 pm

i dont see what all the fuss is about,rockling are very easy to identify.i was talking to Dr Richard Briggs of the Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Divsion recently when i was submitting a claim for a specimen three bearded rockling and even he was saying that he doesn`t know why the body of the fish needs to be taken to him for identification because there is no mistaking them for any other fish, not even a shore rockling.

here`s a good book for fish id COLLINS POCKET GUIDE,Fish of britain & europe, ISBN 0-00-219945-9.

its a very detailed book and has 753 species in it