Description

Also known as Brown Grouper, Scamp Grouper.

Found singly, or in spawning schools, over various substrates and depths, usually depending on water temperature.
They feed on benthic crustaceans, fish, and octopus.
Length - 100cm
Depth - 30-100m
Widespread Western Central Atlantic, Caribbean

Groupers are solitary carnivores that hunt near the bottom usually at dusk. Food is drawn into their mouths by a powerful suction when they open their overly large mouths and then swallowed whole.
Spawning is seasonal and controlled by the moons phase. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Mycteroperca-interstitialis.html