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Distribution

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I note there is another, old comment about this, but I definitely there is something wrong with the distribution information on this page. I'm not a biologist, but I have come across what appear to be respectable biological sites which describe this fish as local to the island of Madeira in the eastern Atlantic. I was looking because I was served what purported to be locally caught Red Snapper in a restaurant, and it does look like this fish as opposed to some of the other species sold elsewhere as Red Snapper. Jay99 Tachikawa (talk)JT

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Red Snappers are also found extensively in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.226.47.61 (talk) 12:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An equation

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W = cLb? Are we joking? We need artificially to impose this pseudo-scientific formalism? It is common sense that weight varies as the cube of length: assuming the fish grows proportionately, then a fish twice as long is also twice as high and twice as wide = eight times the volume. DUH.

I hate pretentious efforts to make things appear more grandiose than they rightfully are.

FYI, by the same rationale, if a six-footer in good shape weighs 170, then a seven-footer weighs 270.

2601:589:4B00:7AB:A85E:3876:9AD2:36F1 (talk) 21:25, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]