Garapau

This name is applied both on Madeira and on Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’) to the young of the goraz and sometimes of the besugo (see those entries). When the first of these fish reaches a certain size it is called peixe anique, and only as an adult does it receive the name goraz. The adult goraz seeks the depths, while the young, the garapaus, live close to the coast, where they are caught with hand lines by simple amateurs.

As is well known, there is no resemblance whatever between the garapaus of Madeira and the carapaus of Portugal. The latter name designates the young of the chicharro (see that entry), a species also found in the seas around the Peninsula.