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Fish Profile: Blue Tail Mullet

Blue tail mullet caught on handline off the Inhambane Pier in Mozambique

Fish Profile: Blue Tail Mullet

Fish Profile: Blue Tail Mullet – staple diet for communities in many tropical places throughout the Indo-Pacific, the blue tail mullet also puts up helluva fight on hook and line. Which in Mozambique and similar 3rd world countries, means hand line.

Life Underwater – Blue Tailed Mullet in the Umzimkulu Estuary (youtube.com)

Blue Tail Mullet foraging in the Umzimkulu Estuary in Port Shepstone.

Mostly though, these fish are caught in a huge net deployed from a dhow.

These blue tail mullet were caught in a net in the Inhambane Bay in Mozambique.

These fish above were netted.

But we saw an amazing display of fishing skills on the Inhambane Pier a few years back. Using handlines with tiny prawns as bait, local subsistence anglers expertly fight and subdue these fine-looking blue-tinged fish – they are so full of colour in the water. This guy must have run 3 or 4 kilos. However, we have seen some that look even bigger around here.

Blue tail mullet in Inhambane, Mozambique.