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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.
The total world catch of herrings, sardines and anchovies alone in 2005 was 22.4 million tonnes, 24 percent of the total world catch. [19] The Peruvian anchoveta fishery is now the biggest in the world (10.7 million tonnes in 2004), while the Alaskan pollock fishery in the Bering Sea is the largest single species fishery in the world (3 million ...
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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.
One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than 15 cm (6 in) are sardines, and larger fish are pilchards. [15] The FAO/WHO Codex standard for canned sardines cites 21 species that may be classed as sardines. [4] Xouba is a small version of the pilchard which is prevalent in Spain. Xoubas, are small sardines, and a they come from Galicia, Spain.