Fish ID

Family Sparidae, PORGIES

Description: small mouth with incisor-like teeth; distinctive black spot behind the gill cover; body bluish-silver with blue and orangeyellow horizontal stripes, yellow fins.

Where found: seagrass beds, bridges, piers, marker pilings, and around natural and artificial reefs; spawn offshore.

Size: usually less than 8 in.

Remarks: popular live bait, notorious bait stealers.

  

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