Barramundi SPC factsheet Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Material type: TextPublication details: Noumea, New caledonia Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) 2014Description: 4 p. ill., photographs 30 cmISBN:- 9789820007321
- 639.2739
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The barramundi, which is also called sea perch, giant sea
perch, Asian sea bass and Australian sea bass (Lates calcarifer)
can be reared in tanks, earthen ponds and cages using fresh
water, brackish water and full strength sea water. Barramundi
is a very robust species, able to withstand a wide range of
salinities.
Barramundi matures sexually at three to four years of age.
Most of the fish mature initially as males and participate in
one or more spawning seasons before undergoing a sexual
inversion (protandry) and becoming functional females by
the next breeding season.
This species is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical
areas of the western and central Pacific Ocean and the Indian
Ocean (from 50°E–160°W and from 24°N–25°S)