This Snapper is handcrafted in New Zealand from recycled copper.
Snapper grow to eighty centimetres in length. They are the most abundant commercial species in New Zealand, with most taken north of Cook Strait, it does, however, wander south to Banks Peninsula in summer months.
Snapper frequent any kind of bottom to about two hundred metres. Its food includes a wide variety of animals, notably shellfish fastened to rocks and those living in sand and mud. Sea eggs (kina), crabs and other fishes are also taken in abundance. The steep head profile, large grasping and crushing teeth, and golden-red colour with blue green spots, easily identify this species. Small examples are sometimes called bream and the Maori name Tamure is still in use along northern coasts. Snapper are New Zealand's most sought after recreational and table fish.
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