Abramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758) - family Cyprinidae - commonly known as the bream or chad.
The fish has a strikingly deep, with a high back, highly compressed body, with a small head and distinctive ventral mouth which extends into a tube when feeding. The back is dark and
frequently cloured with a greenish tinge, the sides silvery-gray and the belly whitish. Older fish
are dark and sometimes have a golden lustre on their sides while the young fish are silvery. The fish are found in large shoals,
particularly when young, and favour deep and slow or still water.
Bream can live to an age of twenty or twenty-five years. 40 to 50 cm is an average length a weight of 3.6 kg is attained. Exceptional specimens reach a length of 80 cm and 9 kg in weight.
The fish feed on larvae, worms, and molluscs.
Bream spawn in the late spring and early summer among dense vegetation, often in shallow water and at night. The yellowish eggs stick to the weeds, and hatch in 3-12 days (depending on temperatures).
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St Selevan and the Bream
The Celtic St Selevan, who made his home at St Levan at the south-western extremity of Cornwall is reputed to have caught and eaten a fish daily, refusing to fast on the Sabbath. Cornish legend tells how St Selevan once went to fish for his single prey on one occassion but, rather than his customary single fish, found two bream or chad impaled on his single hook. He threw both fish back and cast his hook into the water again, only to catch another two fish. He tried a third time with the same result and, taking the event as a sign, returned home with both fish to find his sister St Breaca awaiting his return with her two sons.
St Selevan cooked the fish and served them to the hungry children. In their haste to eat the fish, they forgot to remove the bones and both choked on their meal - since then the fish have been known as "chuck-cheels" or "choke-childs".
| | | | kingdom | Animalia | | phylum | Craniata | | class | Actinopterygii | | order | Cypriniformes | | family | Cyprinidae | | genus | Abramis | | species | Abramis brama |
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