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Fish - including sharks, skates and rays

Bluefin tuna

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

A Montagu's blenny lurking by an underwater patch of barnacles

Montagu's blenny

Painted goby

Painted goby

Two spot goby

Two spotted goby

Shore rockling

Shore rockling

red mullet

Red mullet

Montagu's sea snail

Montagu’s sea snail

Lesser weever

Lesser weever fish

Flounder

European flounder

Clingfish

Shore clingfish / Cornish sucker

Long spined sea scorpion

Long spined sea scorpion

Giant goby

Giant goby

worm pipefish

Worm pipefish

ballan wrasse

Ballan wrasse

Corkwing wrasse

Corkwing wrasse

Thresher shark leaping from the water

Thresher shark

Large-spotted catshark

Nursehound

Blonde ray

Blonde ray

Spotted ray

Spotted ray

cuckoo ray

Cuckoo ray

Undulate ray

Undulate ray

Spurdog

Spurdog shark

Porbeagle shark

Porbeagle shark

Mackerel

Mackerel

Red gurnard

Red gurnard

Short-snouted seahorse

Short-snouted seahorse

Seabass

European seabass

Black sea bream

Black sea bream

Blue shark

Blue shark

Sand eels

Sand eel

Tope shark

Tope shark

Basking shark

Basking shark

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Small-spotted catshark

Small-spotted catshark

Flapper (common) skate

Common skate

Butterfish

Butterfish

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