Porgies are generally shallow-water fishes and are found throughout tropical and temperate waters. Most do.... ( ),

South Africa, with an exceptional variety of species, is the home of the musselcrackerspopular sport fishes growing as heavy as 45 kg (100 pounds). In Australia, several important food species are known as snappers and belong to the genus Chrysophrys; in Japan, a related species, the ( C. In Europe there are several valuable species, such as the red sea bream ( Pagellus centrodontus ), a reddish or golden-silvery fish of rather deep waters. And in the western Atlantic, there are such species as the scup, or northern porgy ( Stenotomus chrysops ), a small fish, brownish above and silvery below, and the ( Archosargus probatocephalus ), a black-banded, grayish fish growing to about 75 cm and 9 kg, both valued for food and sport. ( ),