John Dory is Zeus faber. Slovenian and Croatian charts both say Kovač. AlgoCatch lists it on the Habitat Checker under shore-jigging, not under anchor. The public town zone files have no John Dory polygon. The checker scores a pin as a suitability match, not a count of fish.
Also called Slovenian Kovač, Croatian Kovač, scientific name Zeus faber. The Italian common name is not in the AlgoCatch catalog.
Where it lives in the Adriatic
John Dory is a shore-jigging species in the Habitat Checker, not an anchor species. The public town zone files have no John Dory polygon.
How AlgoCatch maps it
The Habitat Checker scores a pin for John Dory as a suitability match. It is not a count of fish. John Dory is on the shore-jigging list, not the anchor list.
Rules
Croatia and Slovenia publish minimum size and closed season in their own gazettes. AlgoCatch does not copy a centimetre or a month onto this page. The figures in circulation do not agree, and a stale number is worse than a pointer. Check the current text for the water you are on before you keep a fish.
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Last checked: 27 Oct 2026