| Duration: | 6 Hour(s) - 30 Minute(s) |
| Tour Category: | Fishing |
Comoro is a nice place for sport fishing
Most of deep sea fishing depart from Kalaweni shore with the double or three engins sportfishing motorboat
The most fous fishes are:
The sunfish is another fish found off the coast of the Comoros archipelago. It is one of the most corpulent fish with a bone structure on the planet. Its weight often exceeds a tonne and can reach twice that amount: this fish never stops growing; the more it eats, the more it grows.
In Europe, the consumption of sunfish is prohibited, but it is a prime meat in Asia, particularly in Japan.
In the Comoros, influenced by Western customs, the mola is rarely eaten, even though it is still fished by fishermen.
Sole
Generally a flat fish with brown and creamy white skin, sole is a species found off the coast of the Comoros. It is eaten as fillets in European recipes such as fish with béarnaise sauce, fish tartare, fish à la marinière or fish with hollandaise sauce.
Sole encompasses a wide variety of fish, around 180 species. In the Comoros archipelago, milk sole is the most commonly found species.
Captain
A fish with rich flesh, the captain is caught in the Comorian seas. Of the Lethrinus genus, it is the Lethrinus nebulosus and Lethrinus mahsena, white captain and mahsena captain, that are caught in the Indian Ocean. The fish is carnivorous and measures 40 to 90 cm. It is a robust species of fish, prized both for its flesh and its symbolism. The fish can be eaten smoked, in carpaccio, in salad or cooked with various sauces. It should be noted that the fish has an elegant appearance.
The wrasse
Also known as ‘labrum’ from its scientific name Labridae, Latin for ‘lip’, the wrasse is a genus found in the waters of the Comoros archipelago. It is a fish with between 600 and 500 species, making it the second largest family of fish in the world after the cyprinids. This family of fish includes cleaner fish. The smallest member of the family is Minilabrus striatus, the ‘tiny wrasse’, measuring no more than 6 cm, and the largest is Chelinus undulatus, or the ‘Napoleon fish’, growing up to 2.30 m.
