美国红鱼又称黑斑红鲈,原产美国南部墨西哥湾沿岸,是一种极具商业和游钓价值的优良海水鱼品种。我国从1991年由美国引进并繁育成功,继而逐步大面积推广。该鱼为广温广盐、溯河性鱼类,其形体与大黄鱼颇为相似,特征是成鱼的体色微红,幼鱼尾柄基部上方有一黑色斑点。在性成熟之前栖息于河口 American red fish, also known as black spotted red bass, native to the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, is a great commercial and recreational fishing value of excellent marine fish species. Since 1991, China has been successfully introduced and bred from the United States, and has been gradually popularized in a large scale. The fish is a broad temperature salt, anadromous fish, and its body is quite similar with the big yellow croaker, characterized by adult body color reddish, juvenile caudal peduncle above a black spot. Habitat at the estuary before sexual maturity