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Snapper
Goat Island Marine Reserve: Snapper
Pagrus auratus or Tamure. Snapper eat most anything, though they tend to mostly eat small crustaceans. For their first few years, snapper are all female, and then about half of them turn male. They can live for several decades and reach 1 metre in length.

uly 2003