Fish, carp family
Silver bream
- Maximum length
- 36cm
- Maximum weight
- 1,0kg
- Best water temperature
- 12–24 °C
- Water today (4.1 °C)
- Tolerates it, but slowed down
- Fishing districts near where it occurs
- 28
About the species Silver bream
How to recognise it
It resembles a young common bream, but has larger eyes, larger scales and a shorter anal fin. The body is compressed and silver, with the pelvic and pectoral fins reddish at the base.
Where it lives
Slow lowland rivers, oxbows, reservoirs and ponds, in shoals near the bottom.
What it feeds on
Plankton, insect larvae, worms and small molluscs.
Spawning
In May and June; it sticks its eggs to aquatic plants.
A common catch when feeder and float fishing, often together with roach and common bream.
Water temperature and requirements
At what temperature the species is active and how well today's water suits it.
Tolerates it, but slowed downTypical water in Slovakia is 4.1 °C today. The species tolerates this temperature (3 to 28 °C), but the water is colder than the ideal 12 to 24 °C. Fish tend to be slower and pickier.
- tolerates 3 to 28 °C
- best 12 to 24 °C
- spawning at 14 to 20 °C
- typical water today 4.1 °C
- Length
- up to 36 cm
- Weight
- up to 1.0 kg
- Oxygen
- Typical oxygen requirements
- Position in the food chain
- 3,1omnivore and small animals
The values are indicative and come from the FishBase database. In a particular water, fish behave according to the weather, air pressure, oxygen and food.
Where it was recorded
Fishing districts around which a record of this species exists (GBIF).
- OR Patkový Piesok
- OR Hámre
- Štrkovisko Adamov č. 1
- Štrkovisko Adamov č. 2
- Štrkovisko Oširíd
- Štrkovisko u Janíčkov
- Morava č. 7b
- Štrkovisko Boričky I.
- Štrkovisko Brodské
- Štrkovisko Unín
- Štrkovisko Lúčky
- Melioračný kanál Tvrdonice
- Štrkovisko Boričky II.
- MR Kochanová
- Štrkovisko Drahovce č. 1
- Štrkovisko Drahovce č. 1a
- Štrkovisko Horná Streda č. 4
- Štrkovisko Klčoviny
- Štrkovisko Kňazová
- Štrkovisko Koplotovce
- Štrkovisko Leopoldov
- Štrkovisko Madunice
- Štrkovisko Madunice č.1
- Štrkovisko Peter
- Štrkovisko Ypsilon
- Štrkovisko Drahy
- Morava č. 6
- Štrkovisko Kúty
28 fishing districts in total. Show on map
Similar species
Photo credits
- Silver bream: Photo: author not stated, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Common bream: Photo: Микова Наталия, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roach: Photo: Scardinius_erythropthalmus1_resize.jpg: Original uploader was Algirdas at lt.wikipedia…, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Minimum sizes, protection periods and permitted fishing methods are set by the fishing regulations and the conditions of the specific fishing district. Check them before you fish.