SPECIES FIELD GUIDE

Asian seabass (barramundi)

Carnivorous finfish adaptable to freshwater, brackish and marine conditions.

Asian seabass (barramundi)

Lates calcarifer

An Asian seabass specimen in side profile at a Kolkata market.

Photograph: Salil Kumar Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0. Depicted: Lates calcarifer. Wikimedia-provided thumbnail downloaded without further image edits; source page records any earlier changes.

  • Carnivorous finfish adaptable to freshwater, brackish and marine conditions.
  • Farmed in cages, ponds and RAS; accepts formulated feed.
  • Cannibalism in juveniles requires grading; hatchery seed available from government and private hatcheries.