Scientific Names

Cynoscion striatus

Other common names in Latin America

Argentina: net whiting

Brazil: María Mole

Uruguay: poised whiting

Common name in English

Stripped weakfish

Geographical distribution and behaviour

It is found from Rio de Janeiro (22° 35’S), in Brazil, to approximately 43° S in Argentina. It is a demersal fish, which can live both in brackish estuarine waters (although with a salinity of no less than 20 per thousand), and in typically marine environments. Apparently it would move towards coastal waters in the reproductive season.

Fishing fleet and catching gear

It is caught by the three fleets, with the highest incidence of the coastal fleet, with bottom trawls.

Forms of commercialization

It is marketed as whole, fillet or H&G, frozen for the foreign market and fresh for the domestic market.