Silver Trevally photos and information

Silver Trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) Photographs and Information

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Scientific Name	Pseudocaranx dentex
Location	Southern half of Australia
Season	All year round.
Size	76 cm in Australian waters.
Australian Species Code	37 337062
Taste, Texture	Mild fishy flavour. Medium texture.

Information about Silver Trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex):

Silver Trevally have moderately elongated and compressed bodies. There is a low ridge bearing 20-26 bony scutes along the posterior part of the lateral line. Silver trevally have 2 dorsal fins, a deeply forked caudal fin and 2 small, detached spines just forward of the anal fin. These fish are bluish silver on the back, sometimes with a yellowish hue. Their sides are yellowish silver, and they have a small black blotch on the operculum.

Silver Trevally are found along the coast of southern Australia. They also inhabit the waters of Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Zealand and the sub-tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Juvenile silver trevally usually inhabit estuaries, bays and shallow continental shelf waters, while adults form schools near the sea bed on the continental shelf. Some older fish school near the surface in deeper shelf waters. Adult trevally also live on inshore reefs and over open grounds of sand or gravel, or in large bays and inlets.

Silver trevally spawn in summer. They have been found spawning in both estuaries and shelf waters. They appear to be serial spawners, releasing several batches of eggs over a number of weeks. The eggs are planktonic and are about 0.8mm in diameter.

Silver trevally are carnivores and feed on polychaete worms, molluscs and crustaceans such as amphipods on the sea bed. Pelagic schools of silver trevally are known to feed on planktonic crustaceans such as krill.

Silver Trevally are an important recreational fishery. They can be caught using handlines or rod-and-line methods. Popular baits for Silver Trevally include cut fish flesh, whole pilchards or anchovies, squid, prawns, crabs or cunjevoi.

The largest recorded silver trevally caught by a recreational angler weighted 10kg and was taken off Lord Howe Island.