80Lb Corvina "Argyrosomus regius" - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Fiskadoro · 07-29-2013, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

From May to July is the season of Corvinas (european cousin of your White Sea Bass) here in Portugal, so me and my buddys, Ramos and Bruno were try them near the "Vasco da Gama" bridge in Lisbon. Leave you a photo report of our adventure, where I beat my personal record with a 79.36 Lb Corvina.

I don't know much about your fishery but you got me wondering if you may have got two different fish there. The larger one looks like a close relative of our Totoaba and the smaller ones look closer to our Corvina. Totoabas get much larger then Corvina but the way to tell them apart is their tails. Your big fish has the same tail as our giant totoaba.

While the smaller fish have the tails that look more like our Corvina.

Fiskadoro · 07-29-2013, 05:54 PM

So I did some reading. Looks like your Corvina has flatter tails when young, and a more pointed tail as it get's older, size wise it's right between our two fish. Our corvina max out at fifty pounds, your corvina get's to around a 50kg, while the Totoaba reaches 100kg.

Your larger fish looks more like a Totoaba to me, but then again it's big, and it has a more pointed tail. Looking around I found some info about fish farming your corvina in the Nile Delta which got me thinking it might spawn in fresh water. Totoaba spawn in the Colorado River Delta, and the young fish stay there for a while in brackish water before heading out to sea. Turns out your Corivina also spawns in estuaries like deltas and the young fish stay there for a while in the brackish water before heading out to sea. Our Corvina spawn in saltwater like our White Seabass, (another local relative of the Corivina) so I'd say your fish is probably has more similarities biologically to our larger fish the totoaba.

Great catch!!! Just a beautiful fish.

I wish we had those fish here. Like I said they are similar to the Totoaba but Totoaba are mainly south of us in the Gulf of California, and their numbers have severely declined since the Dams were built above their spawning grounds, and they started diverting the majority of the water out of the Colorado river.

I've a friend that caught one in the Gulf and supposedly there were even a few of them in the Salton sea a long time ago, but I've never seen one and probably never will since they are critically endangered and probably aren't going to be around much longer. They just didn't think much about fish conservation in the 1930s. Completed within a few years of each other Boulder dam destroyed the Totoaba fishery, and Grand Coulee Dam killed off a legendary run of Giant Chinook the largest Salmon in the Americas that routinely exceeded 100 pounds.

Great post, keep them coming!!!

Jim

07-29-2013, 05:54 PM	#2
Fiskadoro ....... Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,509	So I did some reading. Looks like your Corvina has flatter tails when young, and a more pointed tail as it get's older, size wise it's right between our two fish. Our corvina max out at fifty pounds, your corvina get's to around a 50kg, while the Totoaba reaches 100kg. Your larger fish looks more like a Totoaba to me, but then again it's big, and it has a more pointed tail. Looking around I found some info about fish farming your corvina in the Nile Delta which got me thinking it might spawn in fresh water. Totoaba spawn in the Colorado River Delta, and the young fish stay there for a while in brackish water before heading out to sea. Turns out your Corivina also spawns in estuaries like deltas and the young fish stay there for a while in the brackish water before heading out to sea. Our Corvina spawn in saltwater like our White Seabass, (another local relative of the Corivina) so I'd say your fish is probably has more similarities biologically to our larger fish the totoaba. Great catch!!! Just a beautiful fish. I wish we had those fish here. Like I said they are similar to the Totoaba but Totoaba are mainly south of us in the Gulf of California, and their numbers have severely declined since the Dams were built above their spawning grounds, and they started diverting the majority of the water out of the Colorado river. I've a friend that caught one in the Gulf and supposedly there were even a few of them in the Salton sea a long time ago, but I've never seen one and probably never will since they are critically endangered and probably aren't going to be around much longer. They just didn't think much about fish conservation in the 1930s. Completed within a few years of each other Boulder dam destroyed the Totoaba fishery, and Grand Coulee Dam killed off a legendary run of Giant Chinook the largest Salmon in the Americas that routinely exceeded 100 pounds. Great post, keep them coming!!! Jim Last edited by Fiskadoro; 07-30-2013 at 02:54 AM.