Photo: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 30 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, bays, coastal waters
The ature (bigeye scad) is a small silvery fish with big eyes that lives in dense schools in coastal waters. It is eaten fresh or tinned and is a very popular fish in Tahiti.
In island life
Every year from December to June, schools of ature approach Tahiti. They are then caught with large nets, handled by groups from outrigger canoes and hauled onto black-sand beaches: a seasonal fishery that perpetuates ancestral gestures, and a familiar sight on either side of Papeete.
Source: IRD (Horizon) documents on ature fishing
Tahitian names: common usage in reo Tahiti. French name: Ature.
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