Firm and Fine texture Information Inhabit coastal and offshore reefs and often flat-bottom trawling grounds and are found at depths to 100 metres.
Juveniles tend to inhabit shallow inshore waters and larger fish live in deeper waters.
Saddle tail snapper often school with Red Snapper. Saddle Tail sea perch are predatory fish mainly feeding on fish, but occasionally on crustaceans. They feed mainly at night. An important commercial fishery in north Western Australia and the Northern Territory, these are mainly caught using demersal and semi-pelagic otter trawl nets, traps, droplines and deepwater handlines. In Queensland they are also longlined Recreational fisherman regularly capture Saddle Tail sea perch on inshore and artificial reefs.