Greater amberjack

Photo: Jean-Paul Cassez · CC BY-NC

The greater amberjack is one of the Mediterranean's most powerful open-water predators, a fast-moving schooling fish that makes seasonal passes along exposed headlands and walls. Juveniles associate with floating debris and jellyfish; adults form loose hunting schools that ambush bream and sardine schools at reef edges. At Cap Morgiou, amberjack are most reliably seen between April and October when warmer surface waters bring baitfish inshore.