Lumpsucker
Cyclopterus lumpus · Everything else
Also called lumpfish
A round, lumpy fish with a sucker on its belly. It lives in deeper water but comes to rocky shores in spring to breed; commonest in Scotland and northern England.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
Comes inshore to breed in spring and early summer; rarely caught by sea anglers.[2]
Sources
These notes are a draft: we gathered them from the sources above and are still checking them. We don't work out best times for this fish yet. The size rules come from the same checked byelaws as every other fish.