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#1 Post by Dobe125 »

Mornin All,

Anyone know a good web site for fish Identification ?

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#2 Post by donal domeney »

the central fisheries board do the best I've found. It can be found on their site http://www.cfb.ie the site is worth a brouse or on http://www.cfb.ie/pdf/fishbook.pdf
the book has 33 pages in it when you download it so make shore you have plenty of paper ready
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#3 Post by Caz- Galway »

The best site for fish identification, that I have found, is http://www.fishbase.org
This site covers local names and even has a quiz section if you fancy yourself as a real ID expert.
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Cheers for the info guys.

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#5 Post by donal domeney »

had a look at this fishbase site. If I caught every fish on the cfb site I'd die a happy angler.
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#6 Post by Wrasseputin »

The Collins guide which you can get in easons is very good....
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#7 Post by squalus »

There are fish id books by Alwynne Wheeler that a lot of the fish biologists consider as the definitive literature

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