What is Mojarra?

Mojarra is a type of small fish of the Gerridae family and the Order of Perciforms. This tropical fish can be found throughout the Caribbean and along the south coast of the United States. Small, silvery fish, Mojarra has a deeply branched tail with 24 vertebrae and usually finds its food through sanding on the bottom of shallow marine areas, feeding on small invertebrates and plant mass. The fish has a lengthy mouth - capable of leaking - and grows to a maximum length of about 1.15 feet (about 35 cm), although men could reach up to 1.32 feet (about 40 cm) in length. Mojarra lives mostly in tropical seas, although juveniles often occur in brackish inland seas and lakes. Fish can be found along the coast of the South Atlantic and along the Pacific coast of the United States. It is also found in the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, Columbia, Panama and Nicaragua to Honduras, Mexico, Cuba and Baham. Mojarra can be found in both salt water and in brackish water, which is water that is a mixture of fresh and salt water. Can be found up to 29 to 229 feet (about 9up to 70 meters) below the water surface.

Mojarra are very diverse fish that people use for food and as a bait for fishing for larger fish. They are sold fresh and sold as edible fish on markets, but are usually not highly valued or especially expensive fish to buy or use bait for fishing. There are eight genera and 40 species in the biological family.

In Mexico are quite commonly found and used as food and bait fishermen. In Mexican waters there are several types of these fish, including charming Mojarr, which is not more than 8 inches (about 20,24cm) long, dark spot, gold and Pacific flagfin. Fish of this kind in the Mexican region tend to have the only dorsal fin and large harsh standards that cover their bodies, while the highly common fish in the Mexican region of the genus Eucinostromus has slender bodies that lack dark poles on the side of the body typical of many types of Mojarr.