Weever Fish Wales

In august 2019 four people needed treatment for weever fish stings on criccieth beach in north wales over the bank holiday weekend.

Weever fish wales. Note the highly distinctive venomous dorsal spines separated by almost black coloured skin and dark tipped tail. Guido rappé on the cornish mailing list. As the seas around britain warm up a small but painful enemy is heading our way ready to pounce on unsuspecting surfers. These tiny little fish pack a big punch with grown men known to cry in pain.

Lesser weever fish caught whilst beach fishing at prestatyn north wales. Weever fish caught with sand eels at hayle cornwall june 2003 if it is the lesser weever echiichthys vipera you are talking about the lice may be the oral parasite ceratothoa steindachneri an isopod. Weevers or weeverfish are nine extant species of fishes of family trachinidae order trachiniformes part of the percomorpha clade. On a cymothoid.

Reports of other holidaymakers being stung came from nearby. Weever fish have venomous spines on their first dorsal fins and gills and may keep themselves buried in sandy areas of shallow water in order to snatch prey as it comes past. The rnli have previously said the severity of a weever fish sting really depends on how you stand on it. Lesser weever fish come into shallow water and are the species most likely to be encountered by both anglers and bathers in the summer months while the greater weever is a.

The weever fish was found on monday morning weever fish stings are best treated with as hot water that the affected person can handle for at least 30 minutes or use hot flannels or towels. You can avoid the fish either by wearing wetsuit or swimming shoes to protect your foot or by dragging your feet along the sand as you walk. Weever fish are a rare example of a venomous fish which inhabits british waters both species have spines on their backs and gill covers which secrete a potent venom. The weever fish are quite prolific at the moment and a few people mainly children are paddling in the shallows and are getting stung the hot and sunny bank holiday weekend saw many flock to.