Sea fish

Black grouper

Mycteroperca bonaci

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Habitat

Where it lives and in what kind of water: ranges compiled by the research.

Rarely caught on a line from the shore.

10–250 m

mostly 10–60 m

18–31 °C

ideal 24–28 °C

Full-strength seawater

30–38 ‰

Lives close to the bottom

Ranges from FishBase, AquaMaps and the literature; a general tendency, not a hard limit.

Confidence: shore type high, temperature low

The regulation holds no separate minimum size or closed season entry for this species. The provisions for Türkiye as a whole apply.

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