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    BLACK BREAM

    Apr 01, 2022 4 minutes

    IDENTIFICATION

    Easily identified by its oval shape, the black sea bream is a silvery, scaly, metallic-looking fish that is often tinged blue with vertical banded lines across the back. From the family of fishes called Perciformes (meaning perch-like) they have a full length dorsal with spines, gill plates with a razor sharp edges, and jaws with 4-6 rows of razor sharp teeth which allow this predatory species, like its freshwater perch relative, to hunt with less chance of being the hunted.

    Like all British sea breams they are related to the many bream species that frequent the Mediterranean, so it is fair to say

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