Cephalopholis Sonnerati

Cephalopholis Sonnerati
Cephalopholis Sonnerati, its common names are tomato hind, orange-spotted hind, orange-spotted rock-cod, red coral rod, red rockcod, tomato rock-cod, and tomato seabass. It is usually an orange-brown to red-orange color, with profuse darker orange or red spots all over its head, body, and rounded fins. In the Indo-Pacific region, the tomato hind is found along the east coast of Africa (from Djibouti, Socotra to Durban) to the Line Islands, north to southern Japan south to southern Queensland (Australia).
 
Cephalopholis Sonnerati is an edible fish caught from the sea. Its flesh is white with firm texture and extremely rich in taste, and it is loved by Hong Kong people and people from coastal areas of China. However, the supply is limited as it can only be caught by fishing. The current Hong Kong wholesale market price is around HK$300 per catty.
Long-Diann has introduced hundreds of Cephalopholis Sonnerati in 2017 and produced fry at 2019, we also started mass production from 2021.