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This fish is generally up to 25 cm long, but it has been known to reach 72 cm. The maximum published weight is 5 kg. Like other snooks, it has a large head with a long, pointed snout and large, laterally positioned eyes. The large mouth has bands of villiform teeth. The body is
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Tondolo, Juliana Simoni Moraes; Amaral, LĂșcio de Paula; SimĂ”es, Larissa Novaes; Garlet, Quelen Iane; Schindler, Bianca; Oliveira, Teodoro
Martins; Silva, Bruno Ferreira da; Gomes, Levy de Carvalho; Baldisserotto, Bernardo; Mallmann, Carlos Augusto; Heinzmann, Berta Maria (2013).
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Lennox, Robert J.; Brownscombe, Jacob W.; Cooke, Steven J.; Danylchuk, Andy J.; Moro, Pietro S.; Sanches, Eduardo A.; Garrone-Neto, Domingos (2015-08-01). "Evaluation of catch-and-release angling practices for the fat snook
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in which males change to the female sex as they grow. Females grow better than males, yielding more output. Researchers have experimented with dosing tanks of fish with the female sex hormone
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Mendonça, J.T.; Chao, L.; Albieri, R.J.; Giarrizzo, T.; Fadré, N.N.; da Silva, F.M.S.; Brick Peres, M.; Castro, M.G.; Villwock de
Miranda, L.; Vieira, J.P.; Daniels, A. (2019).
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making up a large part of its diet. In experimental conditions, fat snook feed during the day, but during times of lower light, in the early morning and late afternoon.
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AlvarezâLajonchegre, Luis; Cerqueira, Vinicius R.; Silva, Israel D.; Araujo, Jaqueline; Reis, Marcosdos (2002). "Mass production of juveniles of the fat snook
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Oss, Rodrigo Nunes; Baroni, VinĂcius
Dadalto; Duarte, Rafael Mendonça; Val, Adalberto Luis; Val, Vera Maria Fonseca Almeida; Gomes, Levy Carvalho (2013).
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Recreational fishing for fat snook is growing in popularity in Brazil, where fishing tournaments target this species and congeneric common snook (
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industry. It is easy to rear in captivity, it can be raised on fish food rather than live prey, and it has a good
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fish, living in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats, it can be farmed in a wide range of salinities.
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611:Feminization and growth of juvenile fat snook
515:Size-related shifts in dietary composition of
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254:Description
150:Centropomus
129:Perciformes
1048:Categories
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