Where can I find it?
- The pompano is a bony fish that swims in open water and is sometimes seen in estuaries. It lives above sandy bottoms, between 15 and 200 metres deep.
- The young swim in shallow waters, near rocky coasts.
How can you recognise it?
- The body of the pompano is oval, compressed laterally; the back is pale blue-green with a whitish belly and the sides are shiny and silvery.
- Its head is rounded with a small mouth.
- The tips of its fins are black, and its caudal fin is highly bifurcated with pointed lobes, which is characteristic of this species of fast swimmers. The body has a hydrodynamic shape.
What makes it special?
- The pompano reproduces during the summer, between July and August. The eggs are pelagic.
- It lives in shoals. Swimming at depths of between 50 and 200 metres, its grey-blue colour protects it from predators.
- Hunting in groups, it targets shoals of pelagic fish such as anchovies or molluscs such as squid.
