To elucidate the patterns of compensatory growth of bream we divided fish of the same age depending on the size and weight into three categories: small, medium and large. It turned out that three year old fish with a faster growth rate in the first year oversized slowly growing ones. But for the smaller fish of the first year the absolute growth for the second and third years was more. Compensatory growth of weight is observed in all age groups. However, the weight increase in fish with less weight in later years was more than in fish with a large weight.