Tilapia vs. Porgy (Sea Bream): What Kind of Fish Is It? Price and Varieties Explained
Porgy, also known as sea bream, banjiaji, red sea bream, and copper basin fish, is a common marine fish along China's coastal areas. Because it has few bones, plenty of meat, and is rich in nutrients, it is deeply loved by people. So what kind of fish is porgy (sea bream)? How much does it generally cost per jin? What varieties are there?
Porgy is a marine fish belonging to the fish class and the family Sparidae. Its body is deep and laterally compressed, measuring more than fifty cm in length. Its body is silvery red with light blue spots, and the rear of the caudal fin is greenish black. It has a large head and a small mouth; the front part of the upper and lower jaw teeth is conical, and the rear part is molar-shaped. Its body is covered with ctenoid scales, and the dorsal and anal fins have hard spines. It is produced along the entire coast of China, but Liaoning's Dadonggou, Hebei's Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan, and Shandong's Yantai, Longkou, and Qingdao are the main producing areas, with the quality of that produced in Shanhaiguan being the best.
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Bronze bream
The bronze bream, or common bream, is a very popular sport fishing species. It has a scaleless head, a flat body, and a dark color, and is covered with fine scales, usually with a layer of mucus on its body. The main body color is golden brown, and the pectoral and pelvic fins have red edges. Adult fish generally weigh between 1.8 and 3.2 kg, and rare fish can reach up to 9 kg.
Danube bream
The Danube bream, also called the white-eyed bream, is a small silver-white fish weighing only about 800 g. It has a blunt snout and a long anal fin, and is produced in the Danube River basin and in rivers flowing into the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea.
Irish bream. The bream produced in Ireland's Shannon River system is generally relatively large. Many bronze bream from this area have a rare pair of stripes on their bodies and can weigh more than 4.54 kg.
Soft-mouthed fish
The silver soft-mouthed fish has a slender body, pale red fins, a somewhat small head, and a fairly prominent snout. It feeds on algae and diatoms, which the soft-mouthed fish scrapes off rocks and stones with its lower lip, which is as hard as horn. It can reach a maximum weight of about 1.8 kg.
Vimba bream
For most of the year, the vimba bream's flanks are silver and its back is blue-gray, but during the breeding season (early summer), the male's back becomes very dark and its belly turns orange-red. Its main foods include earthworms, mollusks, and crustaceans, and its body weight ranges from 910 to 3000 g.
Silver bream
The silver bream, also called the white bream, has a slender body with brilliant silvery-white flanks. Its habits and diet are the same as those of the bronze bream, but its body size is much smaller, usually weighing only about 454 g at most. The silver bream is a eurythermal and euryhaline fish, with the characteristics of strong adaptability, easy reproduction, fast growth, and high yield.