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The Silver bream belongs to the Cyprinidae family. The usual size of the Silver bream is 20 to 30 cm and weighs about 200 g. The largest specimens can reach 35 cm. The life span of the Silver bream is about 10 years and it breeds from May to July. The female lays 20,000 to 60,000 eggs. It can be fished all year round.
The Silver bream (Blicca bjoerkna) has a high, laterally flattened body, with a bushy back, characteristic of breams and accentuating with age. The head of this bream is small in relation to the size of its body but its eye is quite large, compared to its common cousin. Its snout is short and its mouth is oblique downwards, a characteristic common to fish seeking food on the bottom. The mouth is protractile (it unfolds forward) and free of barbells, surrounded by thick lips. The Silver bream is characterized by a long anal fin with between 22 and 26 rays, although shorter than the fresh water bream (26 to 30 rays). The dorsal fin of the Silver bream is short and high. The caudal fin is strongly indented. The Silver bream has a silvery coloring on the sides and belly, with a dark greyish-green or olive-colored back. The pelvic, pectoral and anal fins have an orange-red color. This last coloring can affect the whole stomach in older Silver breams.
The Silver bream lifestyme
The Silver bream uses its protractile mouth to search the ground for its food. It feeds on small crustaceans, mollusks, various larvae, gammares and plant debris that stagnate in the mud. Sometimes, when there is insufficient food on the bottom, the bream can move up the water column in search of various foods.
The Silver bream breeds between May and July, when the water reaches a temperature of 18°C. This fish spawns along shores covered with submerged vegetation or roots, sometimes even on shallow gravel pits. The female lays 20,000 to 60,000 eggs which, once fertilized, develop in 4 to 6 days.
The Silver Bream Habitat
The distribution area of the Silver bream extends over all of central and western Europe including Great Britain. However, this fish is absent from the northernmost and southernmost regions of Europe.
Like its common cousin, the Silver Bream likes the warm and calm waters of lakes and slow flowing canals and rivers.
The Silver Bream angling
Silver bream is caught at shorter distances than those used to fish for common bream. Maggots and gozzer, but also mud worms and earthworms can be used as bait. It can be fished all year round.
