Evil rat-like trigger fish

When the summer arrives, so do the silly stories.... News reaches us that a local radio station is reporting that our seasonal visitors, the triggerfish, are very dangerous and biting local divers, they even want them renamed 'devil fish'! Last year the Kerryman reported that they were 'like boyz in the hood, going round in packs with their rat-like beaks' and that they were responsible for low numbers of lobsters as they were 'stealing' them from lobster pots! While it is true that some species of triggerfish can be territorial in the breeding season, our grey triggerfish are quite placid and their diet consists mainly of bivalves such as scallops as well as sea stars, barnacles and algae. Our own experience with them has been amazing, we love to see these large, very attractive, tropical looking fish arriving in the summer. They appear to come from the Med and North Africa on warm currents and start arriving in Dingle around July. They hang out in shallow areas around rocks and wedge themselves into gulleys and ledges when feeling threatened. Last year there were lots and it was quite a sight to see 60 or so in a large school.
If you have any stories about triggerfish sightings, we would love to hear them.