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Unprocessed shark meat may have a strong odor of ammonia, due to the high urea content that develops as the fish decomposes. [6] The urea content and ammonia odor can be reduced by marinating the meat in liquids such as lemon juice, vinegar, milk, or saltwater. [ 7 ]
A food web is network of food chains, and as such can be represented graphically and analysed using techniques from network theory. [1] [2] Classic food web for grey seals in the Baltic Sea containing several typical marine food chains [3] The fourth trophic level consists of predatory fish, marine mammals and seabirds that consume forage fish.
These fish are widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters. [11] Many fish maintain buoyancy with swim bladders. However elasmobranchs lack swim bladders, and maintain buoyancy instead with large livers that are full of oil. [12] This stored oil may also function as a nutrient when food is scarce. [5] [13]
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).
In southern Australia, shark is commonly used in fish and chips, [132] in which fillets are battered and deep-fried or crumbed and grilled. In fish and chip shops, shark is called flake. In India, small sharks or baby sharks (called sora in Tamil language, Telugu language) are sold in local markets. Since the flesh is not developed, cooking the ...
Rock salmon, also called rock eel, flake, huss or Sweet William, is a variety of fish as food, usually served in Britain as part of a fish and chips dish. The term can describe many species of small shark , including the spiny dogfish ( Squalus acanthias ), starry smooth-hound ( Mustelus asterias ), [ 1 ] rough-hound ( Scyliorhinus canicula ...
All sharks and rays are cartilaginous fish, contrasting with bony fishes. Many rays are adapted for feeding on the bottom. Many rays are adapted for feeding on the bottom. Guitarfishes are somewhat between sharks and rays, displaying characteristics of both (though they are classified as rays).
Chondrichthyes (/ k ɒ n ˈ d r ɪ k θ i iː z /; from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros) 'cartilage' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish') is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.