| Main Ref. | O'Driscoll, R.L., 1998 | ||||
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| Remarks | This fish is a facultative schooling species (Ref. 26865). Schools are most common in surface waters of the continental shelf in 13°C and 18°C. (Ref. 6390). In Australia and New Zealand, juveniles inhabit sheltered waters of southern bays and estuaries (Ref. 26998, 27128). The migration patterns in Australian barracouta are complex. Some stocks undertake annual migrations lasting 6-9 months that cover several hundred kilometers (Ref. 28893). The migrations appear to be related to water temperature or food availability, or a combination of both factors (Ref. 6390). Barracouta also move through the water column from depths of 200 m to the surface, where they are usually caught at dawn and at dusk (Ref. 28893). |
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| Feeding type | mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Feeding type ref | O'Driscoll, R.L., 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feeding habit | hunting macrofauna (predator) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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