Representatives of cyprinids are found in almost all freshwater bodies of the northern hemisphere. Fishing enthusiasts have long mastered the methods of catching crucian, carp, carp, and bream is no exception. The last representative is easy to identify by body shape and color, however, there is a variety of bream with specific features that make it difficult to recognize. Next, we will study all the subspecies of the cunning and cautious representative of the cyprinids living on the globe.
Prevalence
It is classified as a carp, and its distribution area is quite large. Anglers with experience fish in rivers and in reservoirs with stagnant water, but there are simply no count of habitats. Bream can be easily found in the basins of many seas:
- Black;
- Azov;
- Baltic;
- Northern;
- Caspian.
He was forced into the Siberian reservoirs, but the climatization went well. Today, the number of ichthy inhabitants is significant.
In stagnant water, a representative of cyprinids lives longer, but its size is larger, but in rivers, life expectancy is shorter, and it rarely reaches large sizes.
Common features
You can recognize an ichthyovite by the structural features of the body, as well as by the diet. The habitats of all species are also not much different, so further we will consider everything that distinguishes it from other fish in reservoirs.
| part of the body | description |
| dorsal | narrow and short |
| tail fin | not symmetrical, top shorter than bottom |
| anal fin | has 30 beams, helps to maintain stability |
| head | small in size relative to the body, has two rows of pharyngeal teeth, 5 in each |
The annual growth in the first four years is 300-400 g, then the mature individual gains no more than 150 g per year.
It is worth noting the difference in the puberty of bream, in northern waters it is reached at 5-7 years of age, in southern latitudes a representative of cyprinids can breed as early as 4 years of age.
As a home, the fish chooses deep places in the water area with a minimum current, and options with abundant vegetation nearby will also attract it.
Bream species
The fish is classified as carp, but only bream is a representative of the genus. However, the uniqueness of the genus is well diluted with species groups, experts distinguish:
- ordinary;
- Danube;
- eastern;
- black;
- Volga.
Each of them has its own habitat and has individual characteristics, which we will study further in more detail.
Ordinary
Considering all species, it is this one that can be called the standard, or rather its large sexually mature representative. It lives in central Russia, the so-called European bream, the number of which is significant.
The ordinary has the following features:
- the color of the sides is brown, golden or brown;
- all fins have a dark border, the main color is gray;
- peritoneum yellowish;
- the head is small relative to the body, the eyes are large, the mouth is small, ending in a tube.
A feature of the species is the scaleless keel located between the peritoneum and the anal fin. Juveniles of this species are also distinguished, their color differs from adult representatives. Young growth of an ordinary usually grayish color, which is why novice fishermen often confuse the bream with inexperience with the bream.
The average weight is within 2-4 kg, while the body length is 35-50 cm. Variants in such parameters are considered trophy, while the weight can reach 6 kg.
You can catch this representative of cyprinids with virtually no restrictions; a considerable number of them live on the territory of our country. This also includes the Danube and Volga bream.
White or Oriental
It fell to this species to present the Far Eastern fauna, it is it that can be found in the Amur basin.
The eastern bream has a similar appearance to the common species, the only distinguishing feature is the dark color of the back, its color varies from dark brown to greenish. The belly of the Amur bream is silvery, which also distinguishes it from representatives of its kind.
This species grows up to 50 cm, while the maximum weight rarely reaches 4 kg. The diet mainly consists of plant foods, diatoms are a favorite delicacy, but detritus is an animal yummy for bream.
Fishing in habitats is carried out mainly on floats, and not only plant options are often on the hook as bait. Best of all, this species will respond to red worms, bloodworms, maggots.
Black
Another representative of the Far Eastern lands, the black bream lives next to the Amur counterpart, but its numbers are much smaller.
A distinctive feature of this species is the color, the back is black, the sides and belly will be slightly lighter. Nowadays, the life and behavior of this species are very poorly understood, so it is not possible to find accurate data anywhere. Many anglers try to release this representative of cyprinids in order to give them the opportunity to breed.
As it turned out, there are not so few varieties of bream, and the number of almost all of them is decent. However, we should not ignore the prohibitions and restrictions on fishing, it is only in our power to save the genus for future generations.