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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.
Smelt roe, specifically from capelin, called masago in Japanese, is yellow to orange in color and is often used in sushi. Smelt is also served in Chinese dim sum restaurants where it is deep fried with the heads and tails attached, identified as duō chūn yú ( 多春魚 ) or duō luǎn yú ( 多卵魚 ), "many egg fish" or which loosely ...
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings.
Smelt may refer to: Smelting, chemical process; The common name of various fish: Smelt (fish), a family of small fish, Osmeridae; Australian smelt in the family ...
The smelt is a sea fish that lives in the coastal waters of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Biscay. A freshwater form, known in Germany as the Binnenstint ("Inland smelt"), is common in the larger lakes of Northern Europe. The smelt gather and swim about in the underflows of stronger currents in order to spawn above areas of sand.
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 Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) is a small, ... It is clear to purple-olive on the back, translucent with a silver streak along the sides, sometimes with ...
The rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) is a North American species of fish of the family Osmeridae. Walleye, trout, and other larger fish prey on these smelt.The rainbow smelt prefer juvenile ciscoes, zooplankton such as calanoid copepods (Leptodiaptomus ashlandi, L. minutus, L. sicilis), and other small organisms, but are aggressive and will eat almost any fish they find.