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The giant trevally inhabits a wide range of marine environments, from estuaries, shallow bays, and lagoons as a juvenile to deeper reefs, offshore atolls, and large embayments as an adult. Juveniles of the species are known to live in waters of very low salinity such as coastal lakes and upper reaches of rivers, and tend to prefer turbid waters.
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads.It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes.
The bigeye trevally's edibility is said to range from fair [12] to very good, [33] with frying, steaming, grilling and even use in soup popular in some South East Asian countries. [32] Filipinos are said to consider the fish of high quality, especially fish taken from the volcanic Lake Taal , which are said to have a delicate flavour due to the ...
giant trevally: the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, with a range stretching from South Africa in the west to Hawaii in the east, including Japan in the north and Australia in the south Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831: horse-eye jack: the subtropical Atlantic ocean from Bermuda and the northern Gulf of Mexico and south to Rio de Janeiro.
The crevalle jack is an important species to commercial fisheries throughout its range, with annual catches ranging between 1000 and 30 000 tonnes over its entire range. It is taken by a variety of netting methods, including purse nets, seines and gill nets , as well as hook-and-line methods.
Between two and four years of age, the silver trevally becomes sexually mature and is able to reproduce. Spawning happens in estuaries and deeper waters between spring and autumn over an extended period; the females can produce between 50,000 and 200.000 eggs over the course of a season.
The bluefin trevally is a large fish, growing to a maximum known length of 117 cm and a weight of 43.5 kg, [2] however it is rare at lengths greater than 80 cm. [8] It is similar in shape to a number of other large jacks and trevallies, having an oblong, compressed body with the dorsal profile slightly more convex than the ventral profile, particularly anteriorly.
Golden trevally often follow large fish such as this giant grouper. The golden trevally is found either as a solitary individual or in small schools as an adult. [7] Juveniles tend to form larger schools which tend to congregate and follow ( or "pilot") larger fish such as groupers, sharks, [15] and even jellyfish. [20]