Fish
Yellowtail
Seriola lalandi
A powerful, fast-moving amberjack - blue-backed and silver-bellied with a bronze stripe down the side.
Also known as cape yellowtail, dusky yellowtail, giant yellowtail, kingfish, reuse geelstert
- Typical size
- A large, powerful gamefish
- Habitat
- Shoaling predator over reef and open water
The yellowtail is a large, muscular member of the kingfish family, blue to olive above and shading to silvery white below, often with a narrow bronze stripe along the midside. It is a fast open-water predator that shoals and can appear over reef in numbers when the water and bait are right.
It is one of the great gamefish of the South African coast, and an unmistakable sight when a shoal sweeps through.