Acanthopagrus schlegelii, Blackhead seabream : fisheries, aquaculture, gamefish

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Acanthopagrus schlegelii (Bleeker, 1854)

Blackhead seabream

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Acanthopagrus: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, pagros, a kind of fish (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884) was a German-born zoologist who spent much of his life in the Netherlands. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Bleeker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 15 - ? m. Subtropical; 43°N - 20°N, 107°W - 143°W

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Northwest Pacific: southern Hokkaido, Japan to the southern Korean Peninsula, middle and north coast of the Republic of China and Taiwan. Not occurring in the Ryukyu Islands.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m 29.1, range 10 - ? cm
Max length : 50.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 559); max. published weight: 3.2 kg (Ref. 40637)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 11 - 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8.

Found in bays, shallow rocky reefs, and in brackish waters (Ref. 41299). Feeds on mollusks and polychaetes. Spawns in the spring and summer months (Ref. 41299). It is parasitised by the monogenean A. spari on the fins and body surface (Ref. 124057).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Sex change occurs at about 5 years of age (Ref. 36558).

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Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). (Ref. 559)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 03 December 2009

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; aquaculture: commercial; gamefish: yes

FAO - Aquaculture systems: production; Fisheries: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 13.1 - 25.4, mean 23.7 °C (based on 68 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02138 (0.01296 - 0.03528), b=2.99 (2.85 - 3.13), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.45 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (tm=2).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (37 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Very high vulnerability (81 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): High.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 85.9 [43.0, 149.5] mg/100g; Iron = 1.07 [0.60, 2.18] mg/100g; Protein = 19.5 [18.3, 20.6] %; Omega3 = 0.279 [0.169, 0.478] g/100g; Selenium = 22.2 [10.4, 45.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 6.4 [1.9, 21.1] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.786 [0.522, 1.168] mg/100g (wet weight);

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