Sheephead Bream

Description:

Locally known as 'Pic' or 'špic' the Sheephead bream resemble a lot to Sargo (one of my previous spottings here https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/60...), except for its pointed snout. This is silvery grey fish with very noticeable vertical darker stripes, and a well developed black spot at the base of tail. Maximun size we saw this summer was about 20cm in length, while the one in the first two pics was much smaller, less than 10cm.

Habitat:

This is another common fish in Adriatic waters, occurring all along Croatian littoral. We observed it almost every day very close to shores. 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.