Scientific name : Dicentrarchus labrax

There are three sea bass known. The sea bass as named "wolf" in Mediterranean, that raised to the hatchery, the lengthened sea bass of Egyptian coasts, called carousse and, the speckled sea bass .

Description :

The body of the sea bass is slender, almost cylindrical. Its name of sea perch is perfectly appropriated ; it has coins operculars thorny ; the two dorsal separated, but nevertheless very close, the first is sustained by eight or nine thorny rays ; the second, to soft rays. Flippers ventrales, to soft rays, are placed under pectorals. The mouth is largely splited and well armed of teeth. One notes the three rigid rays of the anal flipper. The operculars are bristled of two points.

The sea bass low bit to reach 1m and to weigh 12 kg but the average size situates between 60 and 70 cm. It is a beautiful fish to scales large enough, to silvery center, and placed of rectilinear manner, what gives an impression of force, strengthened by the coloring ; the back is gray somber bluish ; gray flank money ; the white stomach shows splendid vivid reflections. To signal a deepened brown stain, behind the opercular. Dorsal flippers, anal and caudal somber, pectorals and ventrals clear. One small stain black on the back of the young subjects.

The profile of the sea bass offers a line regular enough until the muzzle, with, nevertheless, a light depression between the two dorsal. The line of the stomach swells a bit to the anal flipper. The lateral line lifts to mi - body, to reach almost the level of eyes. The head of the bar increases again the power of this fish. The cranium and defers it the head are supplied scales cycloïdes. The inferior jaw is slightly prominent, lips are fragile. Teeth, forts and sharp, are card some to jaws.

Habitat :

The sea bass lives along of all our coasts, it abounds. Its distrust is great, its catch, by the layman, is only accidental. The sea bass is a carnivorous type , it has an attack lightning, it enjoys to be in the breaker and near rocks advanced. It adopts, in fact, enough long the same territory, the long of rocky coasts. It is a hunter to small distance. The sea bass lives practically always in company others sea bass similar size.

Feeding :

The sea bass is the carnivorous by excellence, rapid and very voracious. By strong sea, in stirred water, it throws with violence on all what moves, baits included.

Spawning :

The period of spawning moves according to the habitat and the increase of the temperature of the water (13° - 14° C) at the end of the winter. The growth is relatively rapid, particularly in the first period of life.