Blue Runner - Caranx crysos
*Information from FAO Species Identification Guide Western Central Atlantic*
Size
Maximum to about 62 cm fork length reported, but not documented; common to 35 cm fork length.
All-tackle IGFA world angling record 5.05 kg.
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Habitat, biology, and fisheries
A schooling species, primarily inshore, not common around reefs. Probablyspawns offshore off the southeastern USA; young often found with sargassum; feeds primarily on fish (usually silvery species), shrimps, crabs, and other invertebrates. Caught with haul seines, lampara nets, purse seines, gill nets, and handlines; also caught sport fishing with rod-and-reel. Much of Florida catch used for bait; marketed fresh or salted in other localities; edibility poor to satisfactory
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Distribution
Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in
western Atlantic from Bermuda, Nova Scotia to São Paulo, Brazil, throughout the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean including West Indies; possibly conspecific with the eastern Pacific, Caranx caballus Günther, 1868.
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