Bream
D-Brachsen, Brasse, Blei; GB-Bream; DK-Brasen; PL-Leszcz; LT-Karšis; LV-Plaudis; EST-Latikas; RU-Лещ; FIN-Lahna; S-Braxen
Characters
1) Long anal fin.
2) Mouth opening markedly longer than diameter of eye.
●) Mouth terminal to slightly sub-terminal.
●) Mouth can be opened wide like a trunk.
●) Body high, laterally compressed. Uniformely silvern, greenish or brownish coloured.
Often 25 to 40 cm, max. 90 cm length and 10 kg weight.
Similar species
Silver bream - snouth not longer than eye diameter; bases of pectoral and pelvic fins redish.
Blue bream - anal fin even longer, 39 to 46 rays (vs. 26 to 31 in bream).
Vimba - snouth pre-bulged.
Biology
Lives in small groups in watersides with vegetation and soft ground of standing or slow-flowing waters, in estuaries and brackish waters and often also in lakes. For spawning they aggregate in early summer times to form big schools in the shallow watersides.Diet
They feed on bottom living organisms as insect larvae, mussels, gastropoda and crustaceans.Importance
Commercially important as food fish.Endangerment
Not endangered.Abramis brama
