Greater amberjack

Big amberjack ( Seriola dumerili )

The Great Amberjack ( Seriola dumerili ) also known as amberjack or amber Trevally comes zikumglobal found in all oceans, the water temperature is more than 18 ° C. In the western Atlantic, their range extends from New England to Brazil and also includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. She also lives in the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific from South Africa to Japan and Panama. She keeps herself from the water surface to depths of up to 350 meters.

Features

The Great Amberjack can be a maximum of 1.90 meters long, but usually only reaches a meter in length. Your maximum weight is 80 kg. Their color is blue-gray, the top often olive, belly silvery white. An amber- colored stripe runs along the edge center. The fins are dark. The forward -lying parts of the second dorsal fin and the anal fin are slightly increased. Like almost all species of the genus Seriola missing the Great Amberjack the lateral keels on the caudal peduncle. In young fish a conspicuous dark stripe from snout through the eye extending to the beginning of the dorsal fin.

Fins formula: Dorsal XIII/29-35, Anal III/18-22

Way of life

The Great Amberjack is a roving predator that feeds on other pelagic live fish. In cooler seas she lives in a few meters deep, in warmer mostly below 100 meters. Young fish hold up to a size of 30 cm in sheltered bays or driving Tangen on. Smaller juveniles sometimes swim in the protection of jellyfish. The eggs are pelagic.