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MR. S. S. PICKARD has kindly supplied details and a photograph of a long-finned tunny, albacore or germon, Germo alalunga (Bonnaterre), found alive in a shallow pool at low tide at Morecambe, Lanes, on August 14, 1954. The fish measured 32 in. from snout to caudal fork, had a pectoral fin 12 in. in length and weighed 22 lb. This is only the twelfth British record of the species, the other eleven being as follows, the numbers indicating the footnote references 1–11 : (1) “Several years” prior to 1846 (Mount's Bay, Cornwall) ; (2) summer of 1846 (Mount's Bay, Cornwall); (3) March 13, 1861 (Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Dorset); (4) August 26, 1865 (mouth of River Exe, Devonshire); (5) October 25, 1897 (Silloth, Solway Firth); (6) June 1900 (off the Orkney Is.); (7) autumn 1901 (coast of Wexford); (8) August 1914 (Dugort, Achill Island, Co. Mayo); (9) November 1932 (Lochgoilhead, Firth of Clyde); (10) June 20, 1934 (Kilmun, Holy Loch, Firth of Clyde); (11) September 16, 1947 (west of Dingle, Co. Kerry).
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TUCKER, D. The Long-finned Tunny, Germo alalunga (Bonnaterre), in British Seas. Nature 175, 174 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175174a0
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