The First Detection of an Adult Boops boops (Sparidae) off the Caucasian Coast of the Black Sea

For the first time, an adult bogue Boops boops has been found off the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. A male with a standard length of 310 mm and a weight of 250 g was been caught in Sochi Imeretinsky Port in December 2022. Based on literature data on the presence of the species off the Russian coast of the Black Sea, we suggest the reasons for the presence of previously discovered bogue eggs and larvae in ichthyoplankton samples off the Crimea and the Caucasus coasts.