Bream

bream Abramis brama, a fish of the carp family which has a wide distribution in C. and N. Europe. This is the freshwater bream, not closely related to the numerous species of sea bream.

The silver or white bream, Blicca bjoerkna, has an almost similar range but is of much less interest as a food fish. Other freshwater breams are of even less interest, but there are some close relations, which hybridize with the bream and amongst each other, which count as edible. One, the ide, Leuciscus idus, is the object of a fishery in Russia.