Brown wrasse can be recognized by its coloration. Females and young are usually brownish or green, with a number of white spots on the sides of the body. There are irregular marks that emanate from the eyes. Males are reddish-brown to brown at the top and white at the bottom. They have an irregular white stripe along the side of the body and orange, brown or white spots on the body. Fishermen should be careful when handling wrasses, as the dorsal fin can be made up of large spines that can pierce and cut off the hands of careless fishermen. Wrasses are not popular at all and eat fish, and it makes sense to bring them back to the sea, although swollen wrasse from deep water can die on the surface, since this species is extremely sensitive to changes in water pressure. Brown-spotted wrasse is endemic to Australia. It can be recognized by its unique marks of stripes and stains. Ballan`s wrasse is the largest and most common wrasse on the British coast. They can weigh up to ten pounds, although one of half that size would be a very good catch for a British sea fisherman.
They inhabit rocky areas and are found in mixed soils, but heavier rock marks contain the largest numbers and the largest fish. Wrasses feed mainly on crustaceans. Their thick lips and pointed front teeth are adapted to pull crustaceans from the sides of the rocks, and they have strong teeth that are located further back in their neck to grind through the shells and reach the flesh inside. They also feed on crustaceans and can consume crabs and small lobsters easily bound. Ballan wrasses enter shallow waters and feed on molluscs attached to submerged rock faces and coastal rocks. Wrasses also prefer areas where there is a strong cover of algae and algae. With about 500 species, the family Labridae (wrasses) is the second largest family of marine fish. In the Caribbean, the blue-headed wrasse is simply not to be overlooked.
The bright colors of the richly decorated wrasse add a tropical touch to the Mediterranean underwater landscape. Since wrasse is a fish that lives in rocky areas, fishermen should think about how fish are landed once they have taken a bait – a net can be useful when fishing for many brands of wrasse to ensure that any wrasse that is hung is successfully landed. Many fishermen are surprised that large wrasses can be caught very closely, but this is actually the case. When it comes to bait, a sharp, agitated ragworm is a great bait for swimming fish for wrasses, but peeling crabs and mackerel strips can also get results. Cod and werel species (including potato cod, cod, coral trout and humpback-headed Maori wrasse) are fully protected at Rowley Shoals Marine Park and cannot be washed away. Although wrasses are edible, it is not a popular edible fish in the UK and there is very little demand for this species from commercial fishing. Due to the fact that they live in shallow coastal rocky waters, they are usually protected from bycatch catch in trawlers. Since wrasse is a long-lived, slow-growing fish that matures only at an advanced stage of its life, its number of anglers can be significantly reduced, so most people fish this species on a catch and release basis. Ballan and cuckoo slippers are currently considered the least threatened species by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Ballan wrasse also has value as a “cleaner fish” that picks parasites (especially sea lice) from high-quality farmed fish such as salmon. There are fears that wrasse stocks in much of Europe will be depleted as large quantities are taken from the wild to store fish farms with cleaner fish. Other species of wrasse are known to clean the largest fish of their parasites, which they feed on. The most famous of these is the Wrasse Bluestreak Cleaner, which can be found from the Red Sea to the Marquesas. Brown-spotted wrasse is a relatively large species of wrasse with specimens up to 31.2 centimeters (12.3 inches) in standard length. [3] Males of this species have a dark brown or gray-brown background color, with an interrupted horizontal white stripe that extends the entire length of the body. They also have golden or brown markings on their scales. Females and young are lighter brown than males or may be greenish, with white spots on the scales and gray and brown bars on the body. [4] Brown wrasse is found near rocky reefs with algae, preferring protected areas, moderately exposed and slightly more exposed. It occurs at depths of 1 to 20 meters (3.3 to 65.6 feet), but has been recorded at greater depths.
Young animals are sometimes recorded in seagrass beds. [4] This species is a carnivore that feeds on a variety of benthic invertebrates found in areas with a sand substrate, between algae and algae. They hunt gastropods, amphipods, isopods, shrimps, crabs and echinoids. [5] Cuckoo slippers are much more colorful than their Ballan cousins and may have a coloration more associated with tropical fish than a species found in temperate waters around the British Isles. They are much smaller than Ballan`s wrasse, weigh only a maximum of about two pounds, and specimens caught by British fishermen are usually much smaller than these. They usually prefer slightly deeper waters than ball-led fish and do not enter very shallow coastal waters, although they can still be caught by the inshore fisherman. They have the same type of prominent lips and teeth as the ballan wrasse and have the same meal, mainly crustaceans. In many areas, the populations of ballan and cuckoos overlap. Wrasses are among the most common and visible fish on shallow coral reefs, but also in temperate seas. Some wrasses can be really curious, making them the easiest to see and photograph while snorkeling. Despite the fact that wrasses are not hunters and rarely feed on other fish, they can be ingested with bait, especially soft jellyfish.
There are several theories about this. The first is that wrasses confuse these baits with the species they feed on, such as shrimp. Another theory is that wrasses actually defend their territory when they attack bait, especially if they have eggs in the water, and bite other fish (and bait) to drive them out of their territory instead of feeding them. However, wrasses are still caught on bait outside the breeding season, which casts doubt on this theory. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that wrasse actually contains soft plastics, and many fishermen catch the wrasse with this type of bait. Finally, if we were to vote for the most beautiful species of wrasse, the young clown Coris, with his exquisite white body decorated with two black and orange eye spots, would undoubtedly be among our favorites. The wrasses are scanned and scanned on the seabed and can therefore be captured with bait presented on conventional platforms.