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Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi [2]) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. [1] It has been introduced in other locations, including the San Francisco Delta of the United States.
Allosmerus is a monotypic genus of smelt. Its sole species, Allosmerus elongatus , the whitebait smelt , is an uncommon Northeast Pacific smelt, about which little is known. [ 1 ] Originally described as both Osmerus attenuatus and O. elongatus , these two species were determined to be conspecific in 1946. [ 2 ]
Freshwater smelt may refer to: Wakasagi smelts, an introduced species of smelt in California, native to eastern Asia. Great Lakes smelts , (North American) in the family Osmeridae and genera Allosmerus , Hypomesus , Mallotus , Osmerus , Spirinchus and Thaleichthys
The bait used is normally anything from the surrounding environment which the whiting naturally prey on, with polychaetes, bivalves, crustaceans such as prawns and crabs, cephalopods and small fish effective for most species. As with most species, live bait is known to produce better catches.
At the time of the smelt's spring run in the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea in Saint Petersburg, a Smelt Festival (Prazdnik koryushki) is celebrated. The Magic Smelt Puppet Troupe of Duluth, Minnesota has held an annual "Run, Smelt, Run!" puppet-based second line parade, smelt fry, and dance party since 2012. [14]
Whitebait is a collective term for the juvenile of various fish species worldwide.. Whitebait (disambiguation) may refer to: Whitebait Smelt (Allosmerus elongatus), a species of smelt that lives off the west coast of North America
One quarter of the Japanese catch of E. superba is used in the form of fresh frozen krill as fish bait and half the E. pacifica catch is used as chum for sport fishing. The Japanese industry produces boiled, frozen krill and peeled tail meat. Other uses include krill pastes or processed krill as food additives, e.g. in the form of krill oil gel ...
Whitebait is a collective term for the immature fry of fish, typically between 25 and 50 millimetres (1 and 2 in) long.Such young fish often travel together in schools along coasts, and move into estuaries and sometimes up rivers where they can be easily caught using fine-meshed fishing nets.