Mullet

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Mullet

Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Fish
Editable	No

Description

Adults are found in coastal waters, often entering estuaries and rivers, sometimes far-up-river, lagoons and hypersaline environments. They are usually in schools over sand or mud bottom, between 0 and 10 m, occurring equally in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters. They are mainly diurnal, feeding on detritus, micro-algae and benthic organisms. Juveniles feed on zooplankton. Reproduction takes place at sea, at various times of the year depending on the location. Adults form schools and migrate offshore to spawn and developing larvae migrate back inshore. There is absence of an obligatory freshwater phase in the life cycle (fishbase, n.d.).

Source: https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/. n.d.

Not applicable. This layer is not present in the North Sea Edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not present in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not present in the Adriatic Sea Edition.

Types

• Very Low Density
• Low Density
• Medium Density
• High Density
• Very High Density

Metadata

Data Source

Mullet is a month-by-month, computer generated data layers following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE). The simplified EwE Eastern Mediterranean model was adjusted for use in the MSP Challenge by Eyal Ofir.

For more information on how Ecopath-with-Ecosim (EwE) works, please visit our Wiki page or visit the official EwE website at https://ecopath.org.