Scientific name:
Scophthalmus maximus

Natural spread:
European seas

the turbot lives in all European seas including Baltic sea, means - and black sea.

Shape This like finished has Butte left-side robbery-fish an approximately round body-form and an endständige, very big mouth-opening. On the eye-side, numerous conical bone-humps attract attention, so-called "stones", that (therefore the name) were created from moved closer sheds. The color can be fitted for the underground completely like with many relatives. After the halibut, the turbot with 90-100 cm (maximum-weight 12 kg) is the second-biggest flat-fish.

Way of life it lives in depths on stony or sandy reason between 20 and 70 m and lives sand-eels and other fishings from cods, flat-fishing, beside it also from cancers and mollusks. As high-paid food-fish, the turbot reaches with the fishing with trawls as Beifang on the fish-markets.