Piscatorium
Atlantic lizardfish
Synodus saurus
- Kum balığı
- Atlantik kertenkele balığı
Peak this month
- Family
- Synodontidae
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Habitat
- sandy bottom
- Seas
- Aegean Sea, Mediterranean
- Bait
- shrimp, fish flesh · soft plastic, minnow
- Technique
- LRF, spinning
Legal status
The regulation holds no separate minimum size or closed season entry for this species. The provisions for Türkiye as a whole apply.
Where is Atlantic lizardfish caught?
Peak months by sea.
Aegean Sea
peak this month- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
- Natural bait
- shrimp, fish flesh; regional support: European sardine / mamun / sülünez
- Lure
- soft plastic, minnow
- Technique
- LRF, spin
Mediterranean
peak this month- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
- Natural bait
- shrimp, fish flesh; regional support: European sardine / European squid / shrimp
- Lure
- soft plastic, minnow
- Technique
- LRF, spin
Bait and technique
- Habitat
- sandy bottom
- Fishing technique
- LRF, spinning
- Natural baits
- shrimp, fish flesh
- Lures
- soft plastic, minnow
Frequently asked questions
- Which seas is Atlantic lizardfish found in?
- In our records Atlantic lizardfish appears in these seas: Aegean Sea, Mediterranean.
- In which months is Atlantic lizardfish at its peak?
- Peak periods by sea: Aegean Sea May–October; Mediterranean April–September.
- Which bait is Atlantic lizardfish caught with?
- Baits and lures on record: shrimp, fish flesh, European sardine, mamun, sülünez, soft plastic, minnow, European squid.
Which seas is Atlantic lizardfish found in?
We have no ground-level record for Atlantic lizardfish; what we hold is at sea level. The links below go to the page of the sea in question, and the number beside each one is the total fishing grounds recorded in that sea — it is not a list of grounds for this species.
