What do these Chart Symbols Represent?

[Baddox]

Browsing a chart of the west coast of Skye, I came across the symbols circled in the picture below. They look like two capital E facing each other and rotated by 90degrees. I’ve not seen them before, cannot find a key to them and wonder what they mean?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I think they mean Fish Stakes...... but usually there are more 'prongs' than that

 

[colingr]

Looks very similar to the fish farm symbol as per

clicky

Rats beaten by Morgana

 

[earlybird]

They are listed in AC5011 as showing a marine farm on small-scale charts.

 

[MonniotC]

Marine Farm. See box (Pj) on attachment below, which is from page 21 from my 1984 edition of Admiralty Chart Symbols and abbreviations 5011.

 

[alant]

Browsing a chart of the west coast of Skye, I came across the symbols circled in the picture below. They look like two capital E facing each other and rotated by 90degrees. I’ve not seen them before, cannot find a key to them and wonder what they mean?

Rule of thumb - if you cannot identify, don't go there!

 

[SHUG]

All that is missing is the FISH!

 

[Baddox]

Thanks folks; a fish farm looks the closest match so far, even with the missing fish.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Thanks folks; a fish farm looks the closest match so far, even with the missing fish.

That's because the fish are all under water

 

[dt4134]

That's because the fish are all under water

Naw, they dug a tunnel and escaped.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I think the absence of a fish means that it is a fish farm area marked with stakes, rather than the more obvious fish farms that many of us will have seen.... I might be wrong (often am!) but that seems to a faint recollection i've dragged up from somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Naw, they dug a tunnel and escaped.

Do you think they'll 'fillet' behind them?

 

[sarabande]

I thought they scaled the walls and finished by escaping...

 

[john_morris_uk]

I thought they scaled the walls and finished by escaping...

No they soled out and went to another plaice...

 

[Baddox]

Perhaps they missed the fish symbol off the chart; it is a simple missed hake.

 

[LadyInBed]

Thanks folks; a fish farm looks the closest match so far, even with the missing fish.

It's all down to EC quotas.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Perhaps they missed the fish symbol off the chart; it is a simple missed hake.

Groan.....

 

[MonniotC]

All that is missing is the FISH!

If you look at the scan of the Admiralty publication which I posted earlier, you will see that there are two examples of the symbol for Marine Farm printed. One with a fish, and another without, exactly the same as the ones on the OP's chart.

 

[Joker]

Here's another chart symbol for you:

And your guess is?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

windfarm engineers awaiting fag delivery from Tesco?