Black Marbled Grouper

They can live up to 30 years old.

Black marbled grouper.

Marbled grouper above photo is a juvenile species codes for trip ticket reporting. The head of a 270kg grouper can cost as much as 6000 and can feed 80 people. Roughly the same as the black grouper. Found singly over shallow to very deep waters of coral and rocky reefs.

It is a predatory reef fish which is found in the western atlantic ocean. The marbled grouper dermatolepis inermis donkey fish mutton hamlet rockhind and sicklefish grouper is a species of marine ray finned fish a grouper from the subfamily epinephelinae which is part of the family serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. This grouper is solitary sedentary it defends a well defined territory benthic and has an nocturnal which can be maximal at sunrise and or at sunset. They feed on crustaceans and fish.

435 grouper marbled license and endorsements required for commercial harvest. Black grouper must be at least 22 inches 55 9cm to land recreationally and 24 inches 60 0cm inches to land recreationally. I will be going into more details about the giant grouper in my next article. Again its preferred reef habitat is pretty much the same as that of the black grouper.

Black groupers do not mature until they grow past 28 inches 71 1cm landing them at sizes smaller than this may be detrimental to black grouper populations because many animals landed may not be given the opportunity. Use the search form above to find fishing world records for freshwater fish saltwater fish and more. Also known as the black rockcod. It is most common in the bahamas.

Food and bait code. The brown marbled grouper is carnivorous and its diet consists mainly in fishes crustaceans and cephalopods it is an ambush predator. Brown marbled grouper epinephelus fuscoguttatus. Shows various colors including two major phases one of which would make it difficult to tell from the black grouper were it not for the bright yellow trim.

They begin life as a female and some change into males as they grow usually between two and four feet in length or 11 and 14 years old. Found singly in clear waters over channels around lagoon pinnacles and outer reef slopes rich in coral growth. Also known as black rockfish cod marbled grouper marbled rockfish hind rockcod rockfish trout. Search for the biggest fish in the international game fish association s database of biggest fish for each species.

The brown marbled grouper can be fished in our local waters but are not very commonly seen at the wet market. Black grouper grow up to five feet long and can weigh up to 180 pounds.