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A pale grey-brown grouper with faint oblique bands across the head and a streamlined body, favouring softer bottoms than its rocky-reef relatives. It supports an important fishery along the Egyptian Mediterranean shelf, especially off the Nile Delta.
Sandy and muddy bottoms, rocky patches and estuarine margins on the coastal shelf
Working baits on the over mixed sand-and-rock ground in calm weather
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Heavy outfit, short strong and a locked — lift it off the bottom fast or it reefs you.
A live baitfish or a whole squid fished hard on the in low light is the classic grouper bait.
Eating & safety
Heavily fished off the Delta; observe quotas as stocks are under pressure.
Best conditions: Working baits on the bottom over mixed sand-and-rock ground in calm weather
Young white groupers often shelter in lagoons and even brackish river mouths before moving offshore.