barramundis

Tropical sporting fish

Barramundis is the plural of barramundi, a large silver fish native to the waters of Australia and Southeast Asia.

Prized by sport fishers for their fighting ability and by cooks for their mild, buttery flesh, barramundi appear on restaurant menus and in aquaculture operations: The barramundis we caught were all over a meter long.

culinary

grilled

Cooked on metal bars

flaky · white flesh · mild · buttery · seafood · delicacy · sashimi · smoked · battered · fish and chips

Australian

Queensland

Australia's northeastern state

aboriginal · Indigenous · bushtucker · Dreamtime · crocodile · mangrove · wet season · tropical · floodplain · estuary

aquaculture

farmed

Grew crops commercially

tank · cage · recirculating · sustainable · feed · harvest · industry · commercial · export · market

fishing

angler

One who casts lines

lure · bait · tackle · hook · cast · strike · fight · rod · reel · line

biology

scales

Plates or weighing devices

  • gillsAquatic respiratory organs
  • finsSwimming appendages
  • predatorOrganism that consumes others

carnivore · ambush · juvenile · mature · brackish · estuarine · migrate · spawn · habitat · growth

Opposites
water temperature and habitat

barramundissalmon

Pink-fleshed migratory fish

trout · Atlantic cod · cod · walleye · pike

Family

barramundi

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Rated G