English name:Cobia
Japanese name:スギ
Latin name:Istiophorus platypterus
Biggest recorded:2m 50kg
Catching methods:Aquaculture
Main Production Areas:Taiwan
Major markets:Japan
Popular Product Forms:Fresh (whole fish)
2000production quantity:M.T.3640
2001production quantity:M.T.3710
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Introduction:Worldwide in tropical and subtrobical waters except the eastern Pacific. Occurs in a variety of habitats, over mud, sand and gravel bottoms; over coral reefs, off rocky shores and in mangrove sloughs; inshore around pilings and buoys, and offshore around drifting and stationary objects