SPECIES DESCRIPTION

The barramundi or Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer) is a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes. The species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region from Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Northern Australia. Known in Thai language as pla kapong, it is very popular in Thai cuisine. It is known as koduva in the Tamil language, kalaanji in Malayalam language, pandugappa in the Telugu language in India, bhetki in the Bengali language in eastern India and in Bangladesh as "Koral Machh", Modha in the sinhala language in Sri Lanka and chonak in the Konkani language in Goa in western India.