Description

Also known as Bass, Bass Grouper, Blue Cod, Deepwater Rockcod, Grouper, Hapuka, Hapuka Bass, Hapuka Cod, New Zealand Grouper, New Zealand Hapuku, Sea Rock Perch, Stone Bass, Whapuku, Wreck Bass.

Found singly, or in small schools, around deepwater bommies, and over rough ground, in deepwater canyons, and reefs, from the central shelf edge, to upper slopes.
They feed on benthic fish.
Juveniles found in schools, over surface waters, drifting with sargassum rafts.
Length - 160cm
Depth - 50-850m
Circumtropical

Wreck fish are found deep on the oceans bottom and are an important game fish as well as being fished commercially in various countries around the world. Ref: https://www.fishbase.in/summary/350