![]() The collective name given to a group of barracudas is battery. These fishes are voracious and opportunistic predators depending on surprise and small bursts of speed (which is up to twenty eight miles per hour or forty five kilometres per hour) in order to catch up with their prey. Most adults of the species of Barracudas are to some extent solitary, while the younger and the half-grown barracudas often congregate. The food of the barracudas is mainly fish, and at times as large fishes as themselves, which they tear off to small chunks and eat. They are well known both as game fish and as food. They are mainly eaten as steaks or fillets. Some of the large species of Barracudas like the Great Barracuda, have been used in instances of ciguatera food poisoning This article is a stub. You can enrich by adding more information to it. Send your Write Up to content@indianetzone.com |