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The Redfish

• The Redfish is a large fish that is usually
  found in schools in the ocean and in shallow
  rivers, flats, and lagoons.

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The Redfish

• The Redfish eats small Blue Crabs, shrimp, small
  mullet, and also Menhaden.
• Its worldwide population is 200,000,000.
• The Redfish male reproduces by finding a nest of
  eggs and fertilizing them by releasing sperm into
  the nearby water. Thus creating a patch of
  fertilized eggs.

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The Redfish

• Description chin without barbels copper bronze
  body, lighter shade in clear waters one to many
  spots at base of tail (rarely no spots) mouth
  horizontal and opening downward scales large.

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The Redfish

• Avg. Size 32-40", max. 60
• DistributionThroughout entire Gulf Coast.
• Habitat Coastal waters and estuaries around
  reefs, sand and mud bottoms.
• Behavior Tends to gather in schools. Adult,
  mature fish migrate to open waters during winter
  months. Found throughout bays in summer months.

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The Redfish

• They also feed in midwater and at the surface.
  They feed by both visual and tactile stimuli. In
  shallow water they are sometimes seen "browsing"
  head-down and rooting the bottom.

• Red drum are primarily bottom feeders,
  particularly fond of portunid and xanthid crabs
  and shrimp.

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The Redfish

• The nomenclature of the Redfish is Family
  Sciaenidae, DRUMSSciaenops ocellatus