Dispatch Method:

To maximise their eating qualities spotted grunter should be killed humanely by iki jime or a firm knock to the head before placing them in an ice slurry after bleeding. Other species of closely related grunters have similar brain locations.

Fish Description:

• Color is generally silver above, white below. Small specimens have numerous spots aligned horizontally or fused into horizontal lines.
  
• Large specimens plain silver or with scattered charcoal scale spots on back and upper sides.

Fish Distribution:

• This species occurs in tropical estuaries throughout the Indo-West Pacific, from the Red Sea to the Philippines, north to southern Japan, and south to northern Australia and New Caledonia.

Fish Size Common Length:

25-35 cm, maximum size around 70 cm.