Fishes of the Black Sea:DARK CROAKER.

Gregarious predatory fish. Has a little extended body with a small hump in a forward part (from here, obviously, and the name), dark blue with violet and golden outflow on a back, light-golden on sides, bright white in a belly part, a black fringing of the second top and tail fins.
Lives in the Black Sea, the Kerch Strait and in adjoining waters of the Sea of Azov. Keeps in a benthonic layer at rocky coast, stone scatterings. Eats a sandwort, ateriny, a sprat and other fishes, crustaceans, mollusks. Reaches length of 70 cm and
masses 4 kg.kantovka of the second top and tail fins.
Spawning in the summer, portsionny, caviar floating. Catch croakers more often donka, throwing a bait — a shrimp, worms, small fish — on 50 — 60 m from the coast. At night and after a storm when water isn't so transparent, poklevka. happen closer to the coast and it is possible to catch a poplavochny fishing tackle. A scaffold 0,4 — 0,5 mm, a hook No. 8 — 10