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| Black Sea Bass
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Image by et. al. taken with the first online underwater camera of the LEO15 system off Atlantic City | ||||||||||||||
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| Centropristis striata |
The Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) is an exclusively marine fish, also known as sea bass and blackfish.
It inhabits the coasts from Maine to NE Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. They are most abundant off the waters of New York. They can be found in inshore waters (bays and sounds) and offshore in waters up to a depth of 130 m. They spend most of their time close to the sea floor and are often congregated around bottom formations such as rocks, man-made reefs, wrecks, jetties, piers, and bridge pilings.
Black sea bass, as their name goes, are usually black. But like many other types fish, they have the ability to adjust their color to blend in with the bottom. Their colors may take on a gray, brown, black or even a deep indigo hue. The sides of their body may have dark vertical bands. But most distinctive is their skin, when seen up close resembles a fishnet pattern, because of the dark color that appears in the margin of their scales contrasted with the lighter color underneath the scales.
The average sea bass weighs about 1 1/2 lbs. The world record bass is 9lbs. 8oz. But any sea bass above 5lbs. is considered a large fish. As a sea bass matures, there are slight variations in their proportions. The smallest sea bass are often nicknamed “pin” bass. Larger fish are nicknamed “humpback” bass because as they grow larger they tend to bulk out just behind the head.
Black sea bass feed on crab, bluecrab, juvenile lobster, shrimp, molluskCaudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia Bivalves Scaphopoda Tusk shells Gastropoda Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda Squids, Octopuses, etc. The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse phylum Mollusca which includes a vars, small fish, herringA herring is a type of small oily fish found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic. A smaller variant lives in the Baltic Sea. Herring is one of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea especially the Atlantic herring ( English herri, menhadenMenhaden are two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae. Genus Brevoortia Atlantic menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus occur in large numbers in the North Atlantic, ranging from Nova Scotia, Canada to central Florida, USA. They are edible and are also use and squidThis article is about the sea animal. For other uses of "squid", see Squid (disambiguation). Myopsina Oegopsina The squid is a marine mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and.
In contrast to the Striped bass Morone saxatilis, it is strictly confined to salt water.