DESCRIZIONE
A buoyant but submersible fish monitoring apparatus (1) castable on a fishing line (4) towards an area of water to be monitored, such as a river bed or a sea bed and associated method, the apparatus comprising or including an elongated housing (21,2b) having at the forward end thereof line connection means (3) for connection of the apparatus to a fishing line, offset from the Fine connection means a camera (6) for recording images of the water immediately below the apparatus when submerged and means (7) for recording such images and/or simultaneously transmitting such images to a remote location such as a mobile phone.