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Fish

General

Most of the common and many of the less common, species of fish can be supplied, usually from stock but otherwise reasonably quickly from organisations such as CEFAS, Sea Fish Industry Authority, Environment Agency, MAFF etc. These organisations can also quite often supply extra large and extra small specimens of many species.

Marine

With some of the common families, most members of the family can be supplied, in a range of sizes. For example, amongst the Gadidae, nine species are at present processed, ranging from Coalfish, Pollachius virens with five specimens (106.5cm to 41.3cm) and Pollack, P. pollachius (three specimens, 63.8cm to 42cm) to Bib/Pouting, Trisopterus luscus (29cm) and Greater Fork Beard, Phycis blennoides (34cm), along with Ling, Molva molva, Whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Torsk, Brosme brosme etc.

Flatfish are another group with a large range of processed species, thirteen in all, in a variety of sizes. There are, for example, ten sizes of Witch, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, six of Halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus and five of Lemon Sole, Microstomus kitt.

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacultural Science (CEFAS), supplies BtB with a batch of fish once or twice a year. These are collected on fishing trips ranging from East Anglia to the Faeröe Islands and usually have about seventy species in them. Many of the species are common ones but there are also many of the rare and difficult to obtain species, including Eckström's Topknot, Phrynorrhombus regius, Imperial Scaldfish, Arnoglossus imperalis, Snake Pipefish, Entelurus aequoreus and Black Scabbardfish, Aphanopus carbo. The next batch will be arriving in October.

Freshwater

Clients wanting freshwater fish are also well catered for species ranging from Pike, Esox lucius, at 79cm, down to Three-spined Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, at 5.1cm. Much of the British fauna can be supplied from stock, although, with few exceptions, the size ranges are obviously nowhere near as great as they are for the marine species.
 
 
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