Fish Identification
Submitted by fishboy009 on Sun, 2012-03-18 16:01
Hey everyone,
I've been fishing around the perth area for a few years now and I've been catching some nice fish and also some wierd looking ones, i've sat for hours in book stores getting a sore ass from the hard floors looking for the fish i've been catching, some of them are in some book but not all, is there a book that anyone knows of thats good for id of fish on the west coast?????
Cheers
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J Ecclestone
MattMiller
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Why not
have a look at Fishwreckapedia???
http://fishwrecked.com/content/fishwreckapedia
carnarvonite
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Sea Fishes of Southern Australia
Get Sea Fishes of Southern Australia by Barry Hutchins and Roger Swainston if you are fishing down south and Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South East Asia by Gerry Allen if fishing up north and you cannot go wrong.
fishboy009
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Date Joined: 22/11/10
got the tropical one i'll
got the tropical one i'll check out the other one.
cheers
J Ecclestone
Wes F
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Fellow members
Take a Pic and post it always good to see what people think. One our fellow members has a lot of expertise in this field I think his name is Glen from the museum. Put some detail in as in where what how and when with a good pic, always like having a look at the wierd and wonderful creatures for our waters.
Old fishermen never die they just smell that way.
Glenn Moore
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agree
I agree with the above posts. Fishwreckapedia has photos of most of the stuff you are more likely to catch. The book by Hutchins and Swainston is the only one you really should have for the south-west. Otherwise take a photo and stick it up on here - everyone jumps in pretty quick to offer a name. If it is tricky, then I can help!
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
twitter @WestOzFish
fishboy009
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Cheers guys. what are the
Cheers guys. what are the odds I don't catch anything weird and wonderful now. but trust me i'll be out there trying
J Ecclestone