Fish species

MinFangst has a built-in register of fish species, and each species has its own picture. Every catch is linked to a species, and the species you have caught are gathered in your own species collection, where you can see your history for each of them.

Choosing the species for a catch

When you log a catch, you search for the species in the species field. Species you already have in your collection are marked "In the collection" in the search. If you need to change it afterwards, use Change species.

Your species collection

Tap Fish species in the row at the top of Journal to see the species you have caught. A species is added to your collection automatically the first time you enter it on a catch or a fishing session.

You can search for a species, and the filter button next to the search field lets you choose the water type (freshwater or saltwater) and reverse the alphabetical order. A dot on the button shows that a filter is active, and Reset puts everything back. Your choice stays while you use the app, and is reset when you close the app completely.

You can also switch between grid view and list view. The list view shows how many of the species you have caught, when you last caught it, and the heaviest and longest specimen. Fish under one kilo are shown in grams, and heavier fish are shown in kilos.

Species details

Tap a species to open the species details. Under In your collection you can see how many fish and sessions you have of the species, and when you first and last caught it.

At the bottom are the places where you have caught the species. The button Show where you've caught … opens the map in a separate view with exactly those places, where each spot is marked with a picture of the fish. See Your own catches of a species.

With Premium, the species details also show your weather pattern for the species, and the button See full analysis of … opens a separate analysis page. See Analysis by species.

If you want to remove a species from your collection, tap Remove from collection. Your sessions and catches stay as they are, and the species comes back if you catch it again.

Species names and language

Species names and family names follow the language the app is set to. With the app in Swedish, the European perch is called "Abborre" and its family "Abborrfiskar".

The search looks through all the names a species has at the same time, so you find it whichever one you know:

• the name in the language the app is set to
• the name in the two other languages, so "ørret" and "öring" find the brown trout in the English app too
• the scientific name, which is the same in every language
• common dialect names, everyday names, older spellings and trade names: Aure, Sjøaure, Sjøørret and Tjønnørret all find the brown trout, Pir finds the mackerel and Rognkall finds the lumpsucker

Search words exist in all three languages. In Swedish you find the herring under "strömming" and the eelpout under "tånglake", and in English you find the rainbow trout under "steelhead" and the pikeperch under "zander".

Dialect names help you find what you are looking for, but they are not kept on the entry. If you search for "Aure", the fish is recorded as Brown Trout, both in your journal and for your friends. That way a species means the same thing to everyone, whatever name each person uses day to day.

A few rare deep sea species have no Swedish or English name. They are shown with their Norwegian name.

When you change language, only what is shown changes. Your catches are linked to the species itself, not to its name, so your statistics and species overview stay the same.

Brown trout and Arctic charr in saltwater

Brown trout and Arctic charr migrate between freshwater and the sea, and out at sea the fish looks and behaves quite differently. That is why the app calls it by the name anglers actually use: if you catch a brown trout at a saltwater location, it is shown as Sea Trout, and an Arctic charr is shown as Sea-run Charr. Both have their own picture of the bright, silvery fish, instead of the brown trout from the lake.

It is the same species that is saved, and the name follows the place where the fish was caught. If you move an old catch from a mountain lake to a fjord, the name changes straight away, without you having to correct anything. The name is shown everywhere the fish appears together with a place: in the journal, on the catch, the session and the observation, in the feed, on the map and in the fishing forecast.

In the overviews that count species together, that is the species collection, the statistics and the species analysis, it is shown as Brown Trout. There it is about the species, and a trout from the mountain lake and one from the fjord should count as one and the same species, so that "species caught" and your figures add up.

Salmon is called salmon both in the river and at sea, and is unchanged.

Adding a species manually

If you want a species in your collection without logging a catch, tap Add and choose Add species. Search for the species and tap it. You can add several species in a row, and species you already have are marked in the search.

The register has more than 270 fish species from freshwater and the sea. Crayfish and other animals that are not fish are not included, since the list is meant to answer what you can get on the hook.

If you are chasing as many species as possible, Species fishing has its own list of the species you can document with a photo, and a scoreboard you can join.

TIP

Use the correct species consistently from one time to the next. It makes the statistics and the species overview much more useful over time.