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Sardines are commercially fished for a variety of uses: bait, immediate consumption, canning, drying, salting, smoking, and reduction into fish meal or fish oil. The chief use of sardines is for human consumption. Fish meal is used as animal feed, while sardine oil has many uses, including the manufacture of paint, varnish, and linoleum.
Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring suborder Clupeoidei. [2] The term 'sardine' was first used in English during the early 15th century; a somewhat dubious etymology says it comes from the Italian island of Sardinia, around which sardines were once supposedly abundant.
Sardines have a short life-cycle, living only two or three years. Adult sardines, about two years old, mass on the Agulhas Bank where they spawn during spring and summer, releasing tens of thousands of eggs into the water. The adult sardines then make their way in hundreds of shoals towards the sub-tropical waters of the Indian Ocean. A larger ...
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Sardines are generally safe for most people to consume, except for those who have allergies or sensitivities to fish, the experts note. Always talk to your doctor if you have concerns.
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Slender rainbow sardines in Aceh. The native range of the slender rainbow sardine is in the tropical and subtropical portions of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.It is found from East Asia in the northeast, through Southeast Asia to northern Australia in the south, and through South Asia to eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea in the west.