Schoolmaster - Snapper


schoolmaster snapper

Shoolmaster snapper are similiar to dog snapper in appearance. Schoolmaster snapper are olive gray on upper sides a brassy yellow tinge. Schoolmaster have a distinctive long triangular snout, yellow fins and a blue stripe below eye, becoming interrupted in adults.

Schoolmaster range from Massachusetts all the way to northern Brazil and also Côte d'Ivoire to Equatorial Guinea.

Schoolmaster are slow growers and seldom reach weights of more than 6 pounds, usually about a pound.


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