Water Temperature

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jd
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Water Temperature

#1 Post by jd »

http://www.met.ie/marine/marine_climatology.asp

At Malin head Water temp was 11.9 av for May 07, as against 10.7 last year and 30 year average of 9.9..
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bigkev
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#2 Post by bigkev »

Wheres all the tuna then?

And its still to cold to swim!

Good site info though, and it will be interesting to see do any trends evolve. Mackerel arriving earlier , cod leaving earlier etc
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#3 Post by lumpy »

interesting, i wonder could this be the reason for the huge amounts of baitfish around clon at the moment, the sea seems stuffed with them down here
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish


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