Common bream

The common bream generally lives in rivers (especially in the lower reaches) and in nutrient-rich lakes and ponds with muddy bottoms and plenty of algae.In very turbid waters, common bream can occur in large numbers, which may result in a shortage of bottom-living prey such as chironomids.The bream are then forced to live by filter feeding with their gill rakers, Daphnia water fleas being the main prey.[citation needed] The fry hatch after three to 12 days and attach themselves to water plants with special adhesive glands, until their yolk is used up.Because of their slender shape, the young fish are often not recognised as bream, but they can be identified by their flat bodies and silvery colour.However, bream are not as hard fighting as most other fish native to the UK, as due to their flat, disc-shaped profile they are relatively easy to bring to the bank.
Silver bream above, common bream below
Common bream on fish exhibition in Prague
A mature bronze-coloured common bream from the Netherlands
Abramis Brama (band)Conservation statusLeast ConcernIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataActinopterygiiCypriniformesCyprinidaeLeuciscinaeCuvierBinomial nameLinnaeusSynonymsAgassizHeckelValenciennesBlanchardEuropeanfreshwater fishonly speciesPyreneesBalkansCaspian SeaBlack SeaAral Seasilver or white breamdorsal finlateral linehybridiseBallerusVimba vimbachironomidTubifexbivalvesgastropodsplanktonfilter feedingDaphniagill rakersspawnsterritoriesSweetcornhair-riggedMaggotsBoiliesgroundbaitBream (disambiguation)IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesBritish Record (Rod Caught) Fish CommitteeFroese, RainerFishBaseWikidataWikispeciesFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea (new)iNaturalistObservation.orgOpen Tree of Life