Bream is a common name applied to a variety of deep-bodied, laterally compressed fish spanning several unrelated freshwater and marine genera, not a single biological grouping. Freshwater bream, including the common bream of European rivers such as the Volga, belong to genera such as Abramis, Ballerus and Blicca, while marine sea breams come mainly from the family Sparidae and pomfrets from Bramidae. Species called bream are farmed and fished commercially in both fresh and salt water, including well-known market fish such as the gilt-head bream and black seabream, and the narrow, deep-bodied shape is the one trait that unites the name across otherwise unrelated fish.
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Bream (, US also ) are species of freshwater fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis (e.g., A. brama, the common bream), Ballerus, Blicca, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, Scolopsis, or Serranochromis.
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