 As a benthic marine fish, the red gurnard prefers shallow coastal waters and may be found from the edge of continental shelves to estuaries and brackish rivers (MacGibbon & Hurst, 2017) with soft bottoms of sand, sandy-shell, or mud (Eichelsheim, 2010; Elder, 1976).This is because they ‘walk’ slowly over the seabed using their first three free-rays (Francis, 2012).They can bury themselves in the substrate, with only the top of their head, their nostrils and eyes exposed in order to surprise prey (Lang, 2000).