What's A Sea Bream?

Sea bream is defined as any of the various marine food fishes of the family Sparidae or Bramidae.  Bream is a term used for number of marine and freshwater species. The species could belong to the Acanthopagrus, Brama, Argyrops, Blicca, Etelis, Nemipterus, Lethrinus, Gymnocranius, Scolopsis, or Rhabdosargus genera. Being a general term, sea bream does not imply relation between species of these genres. However fish termed 'bream' are usually deep, narrow bodied species. The name is derived from the Middle English word 'breme'. The sea bream is sometimes specifically used for porgies or pomfrets. The various types of sea breams include Threadfin Bream, Spotted sunfish, Sooty grunter, Redbreast sunfish, Redear sunfish, Porgies, Parore, Lethrinidae, Galjoen, Bluegill, Black seabream, Black drummer, Abramis sapa, Abramis brama, Abramis bjoerkna and Abramis ballerus.