Tub Gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna) - Profile

(Last Updated On: April 13, 2021)

Tub gurnard, scientific name Chelidonichthys lucerna (also C. lucernus, Trigla lucerna, T. corax) is a popular species of coastal fish that uses a quadrilateral head and a finger-like petrol fin for crawling under the sea. Tub Gurnard is a reddish-winged fish with a blue wingspan.

Also known as gurnard, long-fine gurnard, safirin gurnard, tub, tubfish yellow gurnard.

In the medium to very deep water is found singly on gravel, mud, and sand bottles.
They feed on crustaceans, fish, and mollusks.
Length – 75 cm
Depth – 20-300m
Spacious East Atlantic, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea.

Marine Robin or the Tub gurnard is heavily adorned with glossy heads. They have separate rays (like soft spines) on their abdomen, these vertebrae act as legs near the pectoral fin, while the fish use these vertebrae to find crustaceans in the sand while walking on the ocean floor.

They do Grooties too. The French word for the word Garnard means Grant.

They have a poisonous spine on their backs.

It is a coastal species, common in the Mediterranean (especially the western Mediterranean and North Aegean) and the Atlantic Ocean from Norway to Cape Blanc. Although less common in the Black Sea, the southern Baltic, and the eastern Mediterranean.

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Tub Gurnard

Tub gurnard is a small hunting demersal fish, found mostly in the vicinity of the British Isles. They are distinctively distinctive-looking fish. They have a large head that is decorated and polarized around the body to protect themselves. They have foyers under their heads that they use to “walk” to the beach.

The Tub gurnard has large pectoral fins that they use to ‘fly’ through the ocean. As a result of this swimming system, Granard is often called Marine Robin in most parts of the world. Tub gurnard has a muscle that can make it drum against his swimming bladder by making a jarring or jerking sound.

Tub gurnard is thus supposed to communicate with one another. When they are caught, they will often make noise, resulting in another alternative name for Crocker.

There are more than a hundred different species of gurnards around the world. The three species have widespread distribution across the UK and are detailed below. There are several other species that are rarely seen in the waters around the British Isles and are only briefly mentioned below.

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Tub gurnard is a distinct fish. Fillers are clearly seen in the picture, such as the high head and leg.

All gurnards have a tapering cylindrical body and large triangular dorsal fin and long second-leaf and anal fins. Gurnard has a high wide head which is tough because its skull is made of hard bone plates.

Failure attachments, such as the tentacles, are located at the bottom of the head with sensitive organs to allow the gurnard to look for food (these are actually adapted pelvic fins).

Four non-toxic spines are pulled down from the portal wings, and some specimens may have other small spines coming from the head.

Some gurnard species are poisonous in tropical countries, but none in the UK. Weird wings are large and the wings-like ‘wings’ tail is short and triangular and has very slight spines.

Tub Gurnard

Also known as Yellow Garnard or Tubefish
Scientific name: Chelidonichthys Lucerna.
The UK shore captured the record: 12lb 3 oz. UK Minimum size: 11ins / 28cm.

The largest of the Garnard species, the Tub gurnard can grow to about twelve pounds in maximum size. However, much larger than the vast majority, two or three pounds of fish catch a good shore.

They are the most colorful of the species. Sometimes they (under the alternative name) have a yellow color, but they can be pink, orange and even bright red (confusing people to think that they are red). Inside white or cream.

The most elusive fins of this species have ‘wings’ and they are striking with blue with a blue fringe and this is the appearance of the pigment in the pectoral fin, which is the easiest way to detect this species.

Red Garnard

Scientific name: Aspitrigla cuculus.
The UK shore captured the record: 2lb 10 oz.
UK Minimum size: 9ins / 23cm

The red gurnard is smaller than the tub, with a one-pound fish catching a decent catch and a half-pounder sample from the shore. The color is usually reddish, but in some fish, it may be browner.

As discussed above this can lead to species confusion with the tub gurnard, as sometimes a tub gurnard may turn red than a red gurnard! Incognito wings are the best way to detect this species – if blue is present in this bird, it is a tub gurnard, if blue is not present it is a red gurnard.

The gray gurnard

Scientific name: Utrigla gornardus.
The UK shore captured the record: 1 lb 10 oz.
UK Minimum size: 9ins / 23cm.

The gray gurnard is the smallest of the three major gurnard species. It can grow to about three pounds, but catching the shore is usually under one pound.

Surprisingly the gray gurnard is usually of a greyish gray color on the back and bottom, though it sometimes turns black.

Underlying it is a pale fade. The lateral line of the gray gurnard is the smallest of the three, with unusual bones, spiny fibers, and its pectoral fins/wings.

Three other species of gurnard are found in the waters of the United Kingdom: the long fine gurnard (Chelidonithis ascurus), Piper gurnard (Trigla lira), and the striated gurnard (Triglopuirus lastoviza).

The long-winged gurnard is a warm-water fish, usually clear from the cold waters of Britain, only occasionally found around the south in the English Channel, and Piper Garnard is a deep-water fish that lives in water about one hundred meters deep.

Stripped gurnard is the most common of these extra species, but it is rarely caught by British marine angles because it also prefers warm water and only in southern British waters in summer.

The features are prominent

Tub Gurnard is the largest of the European Gurnards. It has classic opalescent, sharp edges of gill covers, and weird extensions as the rayed section of the one pectoral fins extend beyond the vent.

The color level varies from top to pink on the upper surface to the bottom white or white-orange. The large camouflage wings have a red-trimmed bright blue mark and may have green spots.

Volume

This gurnard can reach 75 cm in length and weigh 5 kg.

List of British Record Fishes
UK Shore Record: 12 lb 3 oz 0 DMS / 5.528 kg
UK boat record: 11lb 7 OS 4dm / 5.195kg

European line class records for this species

Residence

This lower-dwelling species is found along the coast of northern Europe, up to the Mediterranean and northwestern Africa. South of its range, it is most numerous. Adults will be found at depths of 20 to 200 meters and teens will venture into places near the coast.

Food

The tub offers extensive feeds on crustaceans and small fish, including gurnard sandals, gobies, and dragnets.

Hat

A strip of fish is one of the most effective tops, especially for tub gurnards of mackerel.

Tub and gray gurnards are available in decent numbers throughout the UK. Red gurnard, however, is a fish that is commonly seen in the south of the British Isles, especially in the English Channel.

Like other species like pollock, Garnard moves to deeper waters in the winter and into hot water to follow sprouts, sandals and other species in the hot months.

The fish also spawn in the summer while the fish are in coastal waters. Gurnard is commonly seen as a fish that prefers clean sand or mud.

Where they collected food sources, to search for slopes or traits where sandy shores lined the sandy shore or swam along with the sandy shoreline feed Although clear land is a favorite hunting ground for Garnard, if food sources are present, they will move to mixed land and rocky.

Clear land can be found in the land. All garners will hunt and hunt sprouts, sandals and small mackerel and herring. They will float on marine worms and on dead fish found on crustaceans and seabirds.

Great Goddard commercially

Tub gurnard has rocketed to fame – and value – in recent years and is now a top choice as a table fish.

Gurnard has suddenly become a valuable table fish. Previously it was thrown back overboard as bycatch by trawlers, or topped with molten shrimp and crab sticks. But celebrity chefs and restaurant reviewers such as Rick Stein, Hugh Fernley-Whitingstall and AA.

Gil started talking to Tub gurnard as a food fish. As a result, Garnard has increased from 25p per kilo to $ 4 a kilo and sales have increased by 1000% between July 2007 and Summer 2008. Gurnard is now an established table fish and several varieties of red gurnard are likely to end up on the G plate and menu.

Tub gurnard stocks are in a good position for not absorbing stock in the past, and Garnard matures at an early stage and is growing rapidly, meaning that as long as commercial fishing is handled responsibly, they are a viable species for commercial capture, though IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Assessment of this species in UK waters Renee.

While all species of gurnard are currently promoted as sustainable fish for eating, the theory states that eating gurnard will relieve the stress of over-exploiting species such as haddock and cod.

Methods and techniques for catching gurnard

Empty sandy soils or beaches where there is light broken soil or scattered stones that will hold the source of food are best done for gurnard fishing, though the right style marks which can make casting fun best catches in a sandy patch.

Two or three hook flapping rigs can be used to fish nearby, but if the gurnard is not caught, it is better to approach the cut rook on a hook and go the distance in the attempt to find the feeding fish.

Anglers usually use size 1 or 2 hooks, as most garners can be quite small. Since Tub gurnard is an active hunter, a catchy spoon can help with added catches, and if fishing on a clear beach, a few yards a few minutes later adds some movement to a few yards railing that will attract interest and Tub gurnard.

Always using a simple lead on a snatch-free beach can turn the hat around and potentially find any fish-holding alley or other features.

The best choice when it comes to topped fish. Small to medium mackerel strips are the number one tip for going to Garnard, though small low sandals and herring strips will also catch this species.

However, since Garnard is an opportunistic predator, it will show interest in any attractive attraction for all species, including ragworms, lugworms, oysters and other shellfish, squid, and measles crabs.

Since gurnards are predators, they can also be caught in greed, though this is not a reliable way to catch this species – probably because most light fish are drawn through the middle waters to catch prey, again with gurnard dimmers (bottom) feeders.

However, it is not uncommon for summer mackerels to catch fish with feathers or to bring in gurnards, especially if the lures are deeply fished. Since Tub gurnard is a visual predator, they provide good food during the daylight and they do not feel calm and stable.

All of this means that Garnard can provide catches and entertain anglers while other species are thin on the ground.

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