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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 translates as "fish with many eggs". [8] Smelt is one of the prime fish species eaten in Tamil Nadu as Nethili fry, Nethili ...
This is a list of extant freshwater fish that could be found in Spain. ... Big-scale sand smelt Atherina boyeri: ... "Native and exotic freshwater fishes in Spanish ...
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.
The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans. [1] In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. Larger capelin also eat a great deal of krill and other crustaceans.
The sand smelt (Atherina presbyter) is a species of marine fish of the family Atherinidae, common in the northeastern Atlantic from the Danish straits, where it is rare, and Scotland to the Canary Islands and the western Mediterranean Sea. [1] Sand smelt are small, pelagic fishes which are found in coastal areas and in estuaries.
The Sillaginidae, commonly known as the smelt-whitings, whitings, sillaginids, sand borers and sand-smelts, are a family of benthic coastal marine fish historically classified in the order Perciformes, although the 5th edition of Fishes of the World places the family in the Spariformes. [1]
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 Retropinnidae and species Retropinna semoni; Big-scale sand smelt Atherina boyeri; Deep-sea smelts in the family Bathylagidae
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.