Mediterranean Sand Smelt

Description:

Locally known as 'Gavun' or Girica', this is a small silver-coloured fish with a rather long and slender body. It sports a large head with large eyes, and an upward pointing mouth. Those in pictures were not bigger than 10cm, silvery grey, and darker in the upper half of the body.

Habitat:

This is a very common gregarious fish in Adriatic waters, occurring all along Croatian littoral. Here, on a popular beaches in a village of Dubrovnik riviera (Cavtat). The depth in this zone is between 0,5m up to 3m, and then descending sharply down to 10m. The sea bottom here is rocky, creating many crevasses and tunnels, and rocks are abundantly covered in algae. In those deeper waters, there are some large colonies of sea grass.