What happened to my snapper?
Submitted by yasky on Sun, 2016-01-24 15:31
Hey guys caught these pair from mindaries the other night, the big one went just under 90cm but looked quite under weight for the size (7kg), but the other one had a bit missing from it, it doesn't look like a bite, just wandering if anyone seen it before?
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Yewiefish85
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Maybe a bite when smaller
Maybe a bite when smaller that has healed?
morgs
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Another one
This has been seen before on the forum i think. Seen one very similar at AQUA also. Maybe some trauma or growth defect i think it was deduced.
Blowie 78
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Shape
It looks like the right shape for a shark bite when it was younger. Amazing what fish recover from.
yasky
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Forgot to mention
forgot to mention also the fish in top pic also looked like it had a similar prob , but not as extreme
Auslobster
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Underweight snapper...
...ordinarily you'd think 90cm would be in the neighbourhood of 9kg or so. But we are coming to the end of their spawning season and probably not unusual to think that this would take a lot out of the fish...not enough eating combined with too much monkey business!
Deckie
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Radioactive ???
Maybe they escaped from the sound before all the others died down there ??? Lol
Definitely don't look right to me, way under weight for the length.
Cheers & Stay safe
ranmar850
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healed bite
They can recover from shocking injuries. Possibly a defect, but I'd go for a bite. When I was catching large amounts of fish for a living, it wasn't uncommon to see them like that, sometimes the scales were still growing back over the recently healed flesh. Looks like that ones' luck ran out
And the females can be very underweight when the spawning run is over, in my experience.
Meeuwissen
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Defiantly underweight
from spawning
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ranmar850
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look at the scale pattern.
On old scar tissue across a wound, the scales tend to be smaller than those you would expect to see in the area. Can't really see in that photo.
diver
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Stomach
I think it is a fish version of tummy tuck