One would normally expect the only fish on Lamma to be Freshwater Fish, or on a dinner plate.

This unfortunate chap was caught by a lady last weekend & dumped onto the pier.
Think it is some sort of "Puffer Fish", so to amuse her son she kept prodding it with a stick to see if it would puff up into a ball. But it didn't.
She lost interest & just left it lying there for about half an hour before, still alive, she swept it back into the water.

She wouldn't touch the fish, I think because they have a toxic skin.
Good looking chap nonetheless.

Anyway, at least it made it back into the water.........


11/12/2005

you caught me by ur title.............

someone told me that HK Puffer like to having sunbath in cold weather.....

Family day ?

Rabitfish and mullet are very common in Yung Shue Wan . A large flock of mullet can easily be seen in the shallow water at the old stone pier .They are basic food source for the egrets and herons in Yung Shue Wan .

Flipping through some old photos and found this shark. We were returning it home after some photos.

A shark? Caught on Lamma?
More details, please!
Where, when, what type of shark is this?

We need to know before another panic starts!

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As far as I remember, this shark was caught in Ha May by net of local fisherman two years ago right before the New Year Eve. We knew the fisherman and urged him to let us return it to the sea. My wife was holding it and releasing it to the sea outside the power station. I don't know the name of this shark yet. But it is a totally harmless shark to human even if it is fully grown to 2 meter long. I knew it because I was a diver and I have seen most sharks including Tiger shark in the wild, luckily haven't came across the big white before. And prabably this shark was only passing by Lamma because our local habitat may not be able to support a shark. So don't worry.

Looks like a bamboo shark to me. These have been found in HK waters before. Totally harmless.

I took a look at the fresh fish for sale at the HK bank corner this morning. They're really tiny. I think you'd expend more energy scaling and gutting them than you'd get from eating them. Our waters must be pretty seriously fished out if that's all they can catch any more.