| Other restaurants in the vicinity specialise in fresh seafood, with wrasse, turbot and octopus being among the most ubiquitous dishes. |
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| Spiny urchins crawl over much of the fairly lifeless rock, but we do see a moray, some curious wrasse and an eagle ray. |
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| Towards the centre of the pier pipefish, mussels galore, conger and common eels, ballan wrasse and cuttlefish lurked. |
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| There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse. |
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| The full spectrum of southern UK fish is in evidence, from wrasse to ling and pollack. |
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| Maori wrasse, sweetlips, trevallies, grouper and every variety of Indo-Pacific coral browser hover around. |
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| Ballan wrasse tend to be a by-catch for most anglers when fishing breakwaters and easy access rock marks. |
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| There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies. |
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| Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots all occur frequently. |
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| Conger to over 50 lb, pollack, bass, rays, sole, plaice, bream, mullet, garfish, wrasse, tope, cod and probably a few others I've forgotten. |
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| Following them will often be a crowd of wrasse or snapper, hoping to nip in for a free meal uncovered by the goatfish. |
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| On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off. |
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| A fantastically coloured male cuckoo wrasse, all neon blues and gold, darted out in front of me. |
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| As a youngster he fished off the rocks for the usual species of cod, pollack, coley, wrasse, mackerel and dogfish with the odd plaice or eel. |
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| We have had plaice from here but there are also large eels and loads of wrasse if you fish close to the rocks. |
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| The marine life was much the same again, but as we were about to surface we saw the bright colours of a wrasse emerge from under the bonnet. |
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| Neither anchor nor chain are any longer there, but it is full of anemones, and wrasse seem to have fun chasing each other up and down it. |
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| Parrotfish, wrasse, grouper, angelfish, butterflyfish and barracuda are permanent residents. |
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| Fishy attractions include huge scorpionfish, lionfish, lots of lizardfish, triggerfish and surgeons and many different wrasse varieties. |
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| We have had plaice, pollack, wrasse and garfish from here but bass and rays are also taken. |
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| Divers have reported balleen wrasse, pollard, cod, bib and even basking sharks swimming around the frigate's passageways. |
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| In the Mediterranean ocellated wrasse, satellite males help to defend the nest against small parasitic males. |
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| Schools of snapper and sweetlips patrol, along with the odd Napoleon wrasse. |
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| Wait long enough and you will see the wrasse enter their mouths or gills to give the insides a good clean-out as well. |
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| She rests between 5-50m of water, covered in plumose anemones, peacock worms and home to a large number of wrasse and pollack. |
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| I dove two or three times every day and conducted an independent study on the mating behavior of the bluehead wrasse. |
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| We see an angler fish within a minute of reaching the bottom, many tompots under the plating, and wrasse and dragonets in the coarse sand to the landward side of the wreck. |
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| Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish. |
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| Are you one of those divers who assumes that most of the fish off our coasts are wrasse, unless they have both eyes on one side, in which case they're called flatties? |
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| Every inch is taken up by plants and animals in a riot of colour, a living mosaic over which patrol vividly coloured wrasse and dense shoals of demoiselles and blue maomao. |
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| Bannerfish, moon wrasse and angelfish nibbled on jellyfish the size of a soccer ball, and just off the gully, the likes of queenfish, jacks, and golden trevally zoomed about. |
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| The North Sea is not the greatest place for fish but on any dive you are likely to see pollack, coalfish, ballan wrasse, anglerfish, topknots and ling. |
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| The southeast corner of the giri is an optimum seat during an incoming tide for the ballet performed by groups of large Napoleon wrasse and sleek eagle rays. |
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| One of the most sought-after species in this trade is the humphead wrasse, large specimens of which have become rare through overfishing. |
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| I had never seen a wrasse move so fast in my life, and looked up over the camera just in time to see a torpedo-like seal glide past in menacing pursuit. |
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| Big female cuckoo wrasse, pollack, several bib and a John Dory were all I could see, although my view was slightly obscured by several fronds of kelp. |
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| Yes well you're probably thinking of the mimic cleaner wrasse there. |
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| An amicable orange-and-blue Maori wrasse, a big old boy with velvet skin, pursued me for 30 minutes, observing. |
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| Even this close to the shore there are colourful sponges, soft corals, brain corals and boulder corals, forming a playground for goatfish, parrotfish, chromis and wrasse. |
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| I remember catching a ballan wrasse and, on unhooking it, being surprised to find thick white teeth of the sort you might expect to see in a human mouth. |
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| An abundance of species of wrasse with 30-40 metres visibility, this dive is always an incredible experience. |
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| Expect to see glassfish, scorpion fish, angelfish, bump head wrasse and a napoleon fish. |
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| We collected 18 more lionfish in social wrasse habitat, and most of them had social wrasses in their stomachs. |
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| The seabed under the arch is covered in large boulders 18m below, all covered in an algal fuzz that is home to large numbers of wrasse, bream and spiny starfish. |
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| Using extremely sensitive mass spectrometry techniques, he analyzed otoliths of bluehead wrasse fish for trace-metal content. |
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| Tautog are our northern wrasse — large-eyed, thick-skinned, thick-shouldered and, on most days if not this one, almost unerringly hugging the bottom, where with their overbite they eat from the stones. |
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| There might be more wasp mimics than wasps, but in cases such as that of the cleaner wrasse mimic, the mimic probably has to be less numerous than the model. |
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| We were unable to decipher the cause of the shark's distress from our observation post 15m away, although it was evident that cleaner wrasse were taking bites from its pelvic region. |
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| This means that for large species, such as the humphead wrasse, the preferred 'plate-sizes' are usually medium-to-large juveniles, which places even more pressure on exploited populations. |
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| The seabed rich in cavities and hollows, caves submerged and semi submersible submarine give life to an environment rich in ittiofauna: Here are the inshore zone bream, the scorpion fish, wrasse. |
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| Wherever you dive in French Polynesia, you'll be surrounded by many varieties of fauna and flora, like barracudas, humphead wrasse, butterfly fishes, huge gorgonian. |
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| Notable marine species include the ormer, conger, bass, undulate ray, grey mullet, ballan wrasse and garfish. |
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| Cod and other gadids, flatfish, herring, wrasse and skates are also important locally. |
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| Pollution is another danger to wildlife such as the jewel anemone or the colourful cuckoo wrasse fish. |
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| A wrasse and a rockling saved the day for Odyssey SAC at Summerhouse Point. |
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| His seven species score was made up of dogfish, bullhuss, mackerel, cuckoo wrasse, pollock, pouting and ballan wrasse. |
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| Nine-year-old Stephen Shah, fishing his first-ever match,won the juniors with a wrasse and a pollack. |
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| The cattle egret relieves large mammals of their parasites in exchange for its daily bread and the cleaner wrasse patiently waits for the shark to hold open its jaws to provide it with a slap-up meal. |
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| In contrast, the bluehead wrasse lacks structure even at the scale of the entire Caribbean basin. |
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| Neither data set provided evidence for an increased encephalisation index compared to other wrasse species. |
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| Slightly larger damselfish, cardinals, butterflyfish and a dazzling varity of wrasse of every size and description are equally common, sometimes in uncountable quantity. |
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| Now she has smashed club and Wessex National Sea Federation records with a corkwing wrasse that scaled a fraction over 11oz. |
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| For a behavioral test of what the fish themselves think of the color, Michiels and his colleagues turned to a fairy wrasse species with strong, deep red fluorescence. |
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| The club's trip to Scotland was hampered by windy conditons, with mackerel, wrasse and pollack proving elusive, though members did catch good numbers of codling to about 6lb. |
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| Home to the pretty cuckoo wrasse, the fearsome-looking wolf fish, deeplet sea anemones, light bulb sea squirts, edible sea urchins and bottle brush hydroids. |
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| Emma Miller took two wrasse totalling 2lb 1oz for the runner-up spot and Andy Burton claimed third place, also with two wrasse, this time for 1lb 7oz. |
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