Common Bream - Abramis brama
A fairly large, deep-bodied, rather diamond shaped fish with dark bronze back, bronze flanks and dark fins. Young can be confused with silver bream (Blicca bjoerkna), also readily hybridises with Roach.
Inhabits slow flowing rivers, canals and lakes with plenty of insects larvae, worms and molluscs.
All year but most often encountered in the warmer months.
The Bream is a bottom feeder. It may live for 20 years.
Widespread in lowland areas of England.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There are scattered records from the larger rivers (Soar, Wreake, Gwash) and from stillwaters and the Grand Union Canal
egaten
Aylestone
01 May 2005
egaten
Aylestone
24 June 2006
Craig Mabbett
fishing lake
03 August 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Bream, Bream, Bronze Bream
- Species group:
- Fish
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Cypriniformes
- Family:
- Cyprinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 01/05/2005 (Gaten, Ted)
- Last record:
- 26/06/2023 (Gaten, Ted)
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