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UK shore species
Lesser weever
Echiichthys vipera
Also Weever, Weeverfish
Beginnerledger
Habitat
Clean sand in the surf, sometimes in a shrimp net or on a small-hook flapper.
Season
Peak: Jun · Jul · Aug
Also possible: May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep
A small, sandy, venomous fish that buries on clean beaches. You do not target them. You need to know them because the dorsal spine will ruin a day.
- Eyes on top of the head, looking up
- A black, venomous first dorsal
- Sandy, elongated, mouth on the top of the snout
- Usually 10–15 cm
Small. The danger is not the size.
- Colour
- Sandy, dark first dorsal, eyes on top.
- Fins
- Black spiny first dorsal — the danger.
- Mouth
- On top of the snout, pointing up.
Ranked for this species, not as a universal law. Local crab runs and what is actually fresh matter more.