This paper includes information on species identification; catch data; fishing grounds and seasonality; and biological information such as length-weight relationships, sex ratio, food habit, fecundity, predators, recruitment pattern, chemical composition, distribution and behavior, domestic and export market. It also contains comments and recommendations for possible development and management of the Philippine roundscads.
About 25 published and unpublished papers from 1971 up to 1991 were reviewed.