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The Black breamfish, also known as Acanthopagrus butcheri, is a Sparidae. In general, its average size is 15 to 35 cm and its weight is 500 g to 2.5 kg. However, some individuals can reach up to 60 cm and 4 kg. The black bream has a lifespan of 27 years. Its spawning period is between August and January. It can have up to 300,000 spawn each season. It is not hard to catch and offer a little resistance.
The Black bream has a high body and relatively compressed laterally, with symmetrically curved dorsal and ventral fins. The mouth is of moderate size compared to the body and has six incisors in the front of the lower and upper jaws. The body is covered with large scales that can be cycloid or slightly ctenoid. The head is essentially flake-free, except for the lids. A flake sheath covers the soft ray bases of the dorsal, anal and caudal fins. The Black Bream is silvery, from golden brown or bronze to grey-green on the back as well as on the sides with sometimes greenish reflections, depending on its habitat. The belly is white. The fins are all dark, with black borders. The caudal fin is often dark olive-brown.
The Black Bream lifestyle
This Sparidae is an opportunistic omnivore, feeding on a wide range of prey, including sessile, buried, benthic and pelagic species. Its diet varies according to the rivers and its opportunistic behavior does not allow for consistency between seasons, although it seems to favour certain prey when a panel of prey is present in its Biotope.
They reach sexual maturity around 2 to 5 cm. During the breeding season, this species are known to move up rivers to lay eggs, causing an influx of juveniles a few months later. Spawners migrate to the upper reaches of rivers and streams where they spread their eggs, each female individual producing 300,000 to 3 million per season. Eggs are small and pelagic and hatch two days after fertilization. Juveniles spend the next four years of their lives in rivers, estuaries and parts of the coastline, often observed in banks above the beds of shallow estuary margins. It is when they reach 5 years of age that individuals living in the marine environment reach the shoals of the high seas, returning to rivers only during breeding periods, as they cannot complete their life cycle at sea.
The Black Bream habitat
The Black Bream, like many sparidae, is able to withstand large variations salinity. It is endemic to South Australia and inhabits coastal waters from Shark Bay in the west, Western Australia, Mallacoota in the east, Victoria and all the coasts of Tasmania in the south. This species is primarily a coastal species although it is sometimes found on shoals of the continental shelf. They live mainly in Estuarine environments, rising quite high in rivers and streams during egg-laying in the southern summer. The Black Bream is also known to occur intermittently in lagoons and mouths.
The Black Bream angling
Black bream appreciates prawns, nippers (ghost shrimp), pilchards, crabs, small strip/fillet baits, pippies, bread. You can use them to catch it. The fishing season is open all year, and they prefer low light periods.
