Graysby

The graysby is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It is found in the western Atlantic.

The graysby is caught by both commercial fisheries and anglers. It makes up about 11 percent of the commercial reef-fish catch in Curacao.

The graysby lives in the western Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, from Cape Fear, North Carolina, and Bermuda south to the Caribbean coast of South America. It lives over seagrass beds and coral reefs, and on rocky reef ledges deeper than about 27 meters in the Gulf of Mexico.