Fish: From the Sarnian Monthly Magazine, May 1815

A list of fish in Guernsey French and their relative presence in island waters, from 1815, p. 15. The Monthly Magazine folded before the list could be continued.

TO THE EDITOR

SIR, Should it come within your plan to insert communications on the National History of the Islands, I beg you will give place to the following. I am &c., Z.

FISH

Guernsey

English

Linnaean

Frequency

Bars
Bass
Perca Labrax
Frequent
Macré
Mackrel
Scomber scomber
Abundant
Horse-macré
Horse Mackrel
Scomber trachurus
Common
Gris Gounar
Grey Gurnard
Trigla gurnardus
Common
Rouge do.
Red Gurnard
Trigla cuculus
Common
 
Piper Gurnard
Trigla lyra
Scarce
Coucou
Sapphirine do.
Trigla hirundo
Not abundant
Roselet
Smelt
Salmo eperlanus
Frequent
Horfi
Pike-Gar
  
 
Sea-needle
Esox belone
Very common
 
Gerrick
  
Gris Mulet
Grey Mullet
 
Frequent
Héren
Herring
Clupea harengus
Abundant
Carpe
Carp
Cyphrinus carpio
In ponds
To be continued