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#1 Post by MC » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:44 am

whats the difference between the greater and lesser weever?

#2 Post by **pete** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:28 am

Greater is bigger(surprise surprise!) and tends to come from deeper water. Not sure if there are any other morphological differences

#3 Post by **donal domeney** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:20 pm

The first dorsal fin on the lesser weever is completly black while the first dorsal fin on the greater weever has only the first 3 spines covered in black.

#4 Post by **thirty** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:10 pm

I was over in Cornwall last week (padstow) and Rick Stein (tv chef) was selling greater weaver in his shop and selling them grilled or battered in his chipper!

Hammerman · #5 Post by **Hammerman** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:50 pm

Yes i found a recipe for weever in a fish I.D. book in town and on saturday was talking to a man who got stung by one and caught some where i go swimming.....so i bought some beach wet shoes for the next day :lol:

#6 Post by MC » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:31 pm

thanks lads i thought it was just the size

#7 Post by **IDPearl** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:37 am

Caght some in SW France. This one is a Greater Weever about 14 inches long!! All took mackerel. These things grow to 3lb and have really poisonous spines on their back.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/idpearl/GreaterWeever.jpg[/img]

#8 Post by **pete** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:52 am

ID I love your species list for the year :lol: !

#9 Post by **donal domeney** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:34 am

IDPearl wrote:Caght some in SW France. This one is a Greater Weever about 14 inches long!! All took mackerel. These things grow to 3lb and have really poisonous spines on their back.

The spines on the gill covers also carry the poison.

#10 Post by MC » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:46 am

just out of curiosity is their any other poisonous fish in our waters?

#11 Post by **corbyeire** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:46 pm

scorpion fish is venemous aswell - not as bad though

#12 Post by **fishinmidget** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:59 pm

its it :? :? ive handled plenty and never even got spiked :?

#13 Post by **corbyeire** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:03 pm

if you stood on one you would know about it!

#14 Post by **fishinmidget** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:06 pm

oh right......another small fish to look out for when minispecies bashing is the blenny. very powerful little jaws and they hurt like hell if you are unlucky enough to get bitten. not poisnous though.