Similar names include flower short snapper (river fish), flower snapper (camouflage snapper, native to Lake Malawi)

Snapper is a sea fish. It is also known as red gagi, red ris, red plate and red carp. The snapper has an oval body, a large head and small mouth, a continuous dorsal fin with no notch in the center, an anal fin opposite the dorsal fin bar, a forked caudal fin, a light red body, some small blue spots scattered on the back, a black caudal fin edge and a silvery white belly. Snapper is an offshore demersal fish, distributed in various sea areas of China, the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea have larger production. Snapper with its whole body red and very colorful, tender meat and delicious flavor, ranking in the top of the sea fish. However, in recent years, due to the neglect of natural environmental protection, seawater pollution, coupled with indiscriminate fishing of juvenile fish, the natural resources of the snapper is becoming less and less, and it is very difficult to catch inshore. Snapper inhabits the bottom of the gravel sea, March-April each year for the reproductive period of reproductive back to the Yellow Sea, from the Yellow Sea long-distance trek to the Bohai Sea, Laizhou Bay, Sanshan Island, Xishan Shawang area of the sea area to spawn, reproduction of the next generation. Snappers like to live in the rocky reef area at a depth of 30-200 meters and have a wide range of food habits. The snapper has a big characteristic of food intake: it often circles around the bait a few times first to check the movement, then touches the bait with its head, and then tries to bite and eat it. If it feels a little uncomfortable, it will spit it out immediately. In terms of being cautious and cunning in eating bait, it can be better than carp in freshwater fish. Most of the bait for snapper fishing is small shrimps such as mysis shrimp, scaled shrimp and prawns, or bivalves such as shelling clams, Japanese clams, and clams, which are abundant and easy to catch. Spread bait should pay attention to, each spread bait should not be more, otherwise the snapper drink a meal will no longer patronize the bait. Snapper fishing bait with live bait or raw meat bait can be, live shrimp, live fish, live sandworms, shrimp, cephalopods, etc. are good fishing bait. Snapper is a deep-water pelagic sea fish and must be fished by boat. Snapper is cautious, except in the fishing spots with fast tidal currents, the hook tip can be exposed when hanging live bait, and the hook tip can not be exposed when hooking other raw meat-flavored bait. Fishing for snapper is characterized by the fishing technique: after the fish bites the hook, it is better to lift the rod late than early, and after the rod tip is bent, lift the wrist to collect the line and fish.