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Montana's Tiny Fish (Bream)
Yellowfin Bream Acanthopagrus australis
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Totally relaxing and I could fish and fish and fish. Today we went down below my house here in Urunga and Anaan and Montana and I just fished for a few hours. I caught the first fish of the day with a whiting, then another and then a bream and then another larger bream, Montana and Anaan caught the same.
We pumped yabbies up from the under the sand and used these for bait. I did a smashing job of putting my own bait on. I had to get serious because I am pretty fail at this usually.
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FISHING and AQUACULTURE
Distribution - Yellowfin bream are found along the NSW coast,
as well as in Queensland and Victoria. Bream inhabit estuaries up to the
brackish water limit (the change from salt to freshwater) and inshore
rocky reef habitats near ocean beaches and rocky headlands.
Size - Maximum weight of 4kg and a length of 60 cm.
Characteristics - Yellowfin bream have a silver to olive-green
body with yellowish pectoral, ventral and anal fins. They are
opportunistic feeders with their diet including small crabs, prawns,
molluscs, pipis and small fish.
Confusing species - Black bream (
Acanthopagrus butcheri)
are found in NSW waters up to the Myall Lakes though are more common in
Victoria and the south of the state. Yellowfin bream have a deeper body
and a higher snout than black bream and have yellow ventral fins.
Tarwhine have rounded, convex heads and a gold spot on each scale giving
the fish a series of longitudinal bands. Tarwhine are found along the
coast of New South Wales.
Images @ Melopopzdropz Flickr
