Saddled Seabream

Description:

Locally known as 'Ušata', this seabream is another very common fish of Adriatic littoral. Usually, it grows up to 20cm in length, these two are youngsters and were not more than 5cm in total length. It has a fuse shaped bluish-silvery body, with a characteristic black bordered by white spot near the tail.

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.