Fish
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This page lists the fish species found in the Fleet. There is very little validated survey data available so this table has been built from the three papers listed at the bottom of the page and from personal observations. Although 29 species are listed, there are likely to be significantly more found in the Fleet.
F - Ferrybridge
L - Lower Fleet
N - The Narrows
M - Mid Fleet
U - Upper Fleet
Abundance key:
Red - Abundant
Orange - scarce
Blue - not found
Black - no data
| Common name | Species | F L N M U | Refs |
| Bass | Dicentrarchus labrax |    |
1,2 |
| Black-face blenny | Tripterygion delaisi | |
2 |
| Tompot blenny | Parablennius gattorugine | |
2,6 |
| Black bream | Spondyliosoma cantharus | |
1,2 |
| Butterfish | Pholis gunnellus | |
3 |
| Dragonet | Callionymous lyra | |
1 |
| Conger eel | Conger conger | |
3 |
| Common eel | Anguilla anguilla | |
2,3 |
| Sand eel | Ammodytes tobianus | |
3 |
| Flounder | Platicthyus flesus | |
1,2 |
| Black goby | Gobius niger | |
6 |
| Common goby | Pomatoschistus microps | |
3 |
| Two-spot goby | Gobiusculus flavescens | |
2 |
| Rock goby | Gobius paganellus | |
6 |
| Goldsinney | Ctenilabrus rupestris | |
3 |
| Lumpsucker | Cyclopterus lumpus | |
2 |
| Thick-lipped grey mullet | Chelon labrosus | |
1,2,4 |
| Golden grey mullet | Liza aurata | |
4 |
| Greater pipefish | Sygnathus acus | |
1 |
| Pollack | Pollachius pollachius | |
1,2 |
| Scad | Trachurus trachurus | |
6 |
| Long-snouted Seahorse | Hippocampus guttulatus | |
6 |
| Shanny | Lipophrys pholis | |
1,2 |
| Sand smelt | Atherina presbyter | |
1 |
| Three-spine stickleback | Gasterosteus aculeatus | |
3 |
| Fifteen-spine stickleback | Spinachia spinachia | |
1,2 |
| Ballan wrasse | Labrus bergylta | |
1,2 |
| Corkwing wrasse | Crenilabrus melops | |
1,2 |
References
1. Ladle, M. 1981. The fishes of the Fleet. In:The Fleet and Chesil Beach; Structure and biology of a unique coastal feature. Ladle, M. (Ed), Fleet Study Group.
2. Harland, E.J. Personal observation.
3. Cooke,W.C. ????
4. Ladle, M. 1986. The fishes of the Fleet with particular reference to the young stages of the bass (Dicentracus labrus). In: The biology of the Fleet, including the full reference list of the Fleet Study Group. Ladle, M. (Ed). Fleet Study Group.
5. Dyrynda,P. 1986. Subtidal communities within the outer Fleet and Portland Harbour. In: The biology of the Fleet, including the full reference list of the Fleet Study Group. Ladle, M. (Ed). Fleet Study Group.
6. Bass,J.A.B. & Baldock,L. Pers Comm.