Something quite not right?

[Silent]

Check this one and claimed fish caught in Moreton Bay doesn't making any sense...

http://www.couriermail.com.au/lifest...-1225941989344

[Freeeedom]

I was a bit unsure when I saw that article this morning Silent. Grant does not list a 'flame snapper' at all. The DPI at this site

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_9015.htm

lists a similar looking fish as a flame snapper, with the scientific name Etelis coruscans. Grant doesn't list that scientific name either.

The DPI site indicates that it is a member of the jobfish group of Lutjanids, and it does have a bit of a jobfish look about it.

It's a new one on me though - nice looking fish!

Cheers Freeeedom

[tunaticer]

It seems the information in the article is hap-hazard and conflicting. How would you expect a journalist to get facts right anyway?

I have never seen one of these fish before at any size....looks to me like a cross between a rosy jobfish and a gold fish that has eaten too much red coloring.

[randell]

Apparently they are around indo pacific downto NSW.
Yes I was sceptical, and did a search for them.


http://www.ozanimals.com/Fish/Flame-...coruscans.html
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_9015.htm
randell

[Silent]

It seems the information in the article is hap-hazard and conflicting. How would you expect a journalist to get facts right anyway?

Obviously journalist.... Not a fisherman thou...

Thanks guys for dig deep to get informations on specie...
Possible this trophy caught off Moreton Island,
and their habit is inhabits rocky bottoms around reefs. Depth range 90m to 400m

Have a nice day!

[jim_bream]

I used to work at the Courier, and in all fairness Natascha aint a bad type. (Not a fisho either) I believe her husband (Andrew) is one of the chefs on the aussie version of Iron Chef and- surprise surprise writes for the Courier Mail as well. Maybe Flame Snapper will be the next secret meal base on Iron Chef... who knows.

[Marlin_Mike]

http://www.fish.gov.au/fishnames/fishnames.php?pid=2652

[A_DIFF_PERSPECTIVE]

It's a common fish. They frequent deep water, mostly.
Up C.Q. way, the name 'Flame Snapper' is typical. Generally, they are captured wide off the coast rather than in-shore. In the deep blue.
Cheers,
Johnny Mitchell.

[Smithy]

I could nearly guess which of two commercial fishermen out of Redcliffe who may have caught it too! I know one reads Ausfish a bit. It would have come from the shelf.