Australian salmon
arripis latin

Australian salmon form immense schools with hundreds to thousands of individuals, as both adults and juveniles.

The local beach also provides fishing where anglers can catch Australian salmon, whiting and tailor.

It also usually contains yellow-eye mullet, black bream and Australian salmon.

Species like the yellowtail kingfish, bonito and Australian salmon are caught frequently during summer months.

Australian salmon were named so by early European settlers after their superficial resemblance to the salmoniform fishes.

Due to declining numbers and ever-increasing annual catch sizes, the future viability of the Australian salmon stock has been put into question.

This site is popular with people who come to fish for Australian Salmon at nearby Browns Beach.

Australian salmon numbers have declined noticeably however, with large specimens becoming ever rarer; the fish have all but disappeared from some areas.

Australian salmon prepared in this manner are available in many New Zealand supermarkets and fishmongers.

Recreational fishing is also popular activity in the bay with flathead, Australian salmon, trevally, trumpeter and squid regularly caught.

The Australian salmon industry is based in Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia.

It closely resembles its 'cousin', the Australian salmon Arripis trutta, although it grows to a smaller size.

Relatively long-lived fish, Australian salmon are a favored target of recreational fishers, and both commercial and traditional Māori fisheries.

The Australian salmon eating season starts in October, when Mr. Smith and his 6 full-time and 20 seasonal workers start harvesting.

Arripis is a genus of marine fishes from Australia and New Zealand, known as Australian salmon or kahawai.

Recreational fishers also seek Australian salmon for their renowned mettle when hooked; the fish are a challenge to land and often jump, occasionally standing on their tails.

Relatively long-lived fishes, Australian salmon may attain an age of 26 yr in Arripis trutta and 7-9 yr in other species.

The Australian salmon are very fast swimmers, and are sometimes seen mingling with ostensibly similar species of carangids, such as trevally; this is an example of mutualism.

The most prominent inshore predators are Australian salmon, members of the flathead family, the barracouta (a snake mackerel), snook as well as various species of sharks and rays.

All species are neritic and epipelagic, staying within the upper layers of relatively shallow (1-80 m), open and clear coastal waters (although the western Australian salmon may prefer deeper water).

In New Zealand, Australian salmon and in particular northern kahawai are highly regarded for their flesh when hot smoked by recreational fisherman, usually using manuka sawdust or woodchips.

Despite the common name, Australian salmon are not related to the salmon family Salmonidae of the Northern Hemisphere, but belong to the order Perciformes of perch-like fishes.

The young Australian salmon then spend the first two to five years in sheltered coastal bays, inlets, and estuaries until they become sexually mature and begin to move into more open waters.

Australian salmon share a passing resemblance to the unrelated yellowtail amberjack, (Seriola lalandi), locally known as "kingfish", with which larger Australian salmon are sometimes confused.

The evolutionary history of the species of Arripis has been shaped by changes to oceanographic conditions and land-bridges that occurred during glacial cycles.