Black grouper

The black grouper is a large marine fish of the perch-like order from the stone perch family. Another name for fish used in the Mediterranean is Meru.

The fish has a body of the correct oval shape and reaches one and a half meters in length. Brown color with gray streaks. Youth brown-violet or even lilac with marks of white and dark tones. Unpaired fins, usually edged with black. The head is full, with an upper slightly concave profile, with rough scales and sharp spines that become blunt with age. It lives on the continental shelf up to 1000 meters deep, but prefers rocky spurs at depths from 100 to 250 meters. Juveniles usually feed in surface waters on floating remains of benthos. The black grouper is a desirable object of sport fishing.

Giant trevally

Caranx ignobilis

The head and body are dark golden on the back and light on the side of the belly. The fins are usually dark or even black. There are no spots on the gill covers. The pectoral fin is falcate. The largest recorded parameters: length - 170 cm, weight - 80 kg. A typical pelagic, usually found where the bottom is sandy or covered with rocks. Usually lives near lagoons, near sea reefs. Night predator. It feeds on crustaceans, especially indifferent to crabs and lobsters, as well as fish. Old individuals weighing more than 60 kg and more than 1.7 m long can cause ciguaterra. In the Seychelles, it is well caught on poppers. On the distant islands, specimens in the region of 70 kg are consistently found.

Yellow-edged lyretail

Yellow-edged lyretail (Variola louti)

The back is dark red, the sides are red, the belly and lower jaw are yellow. There are numerous dark gray or brown spots on the head, back, sides and fins, on the belly the spots are dark gray in a light ring. The tail is month-shaped, almost all fins have a pronounced yellow border. The largest recorded parameters: length - 83 cm, weight - 12 kg. Common in clear waters deeper than 15 m. Prefers island and offshore reefs, rarely found on the continental shelf. It feeds primarily on fish, but may eat crabs, squids, and stomatopods.