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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 ...
The anchovy is a significant food source for almost every predatory fish in its environment, including the California halibut, rock fish, yellowtail, shark, chinook, and coho salmon. It is also extremely important to marine mammals and birds; for example, breeding success of California brown pelicans [ 13 ] and elegant terns is strongly ...
Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae.The term also is applied to a number of other small sprat-like forage fish (Clupeoides, Clupeonella, Corica, Ehirava, Hyperlophus, Microthrissa, Nannothrissa, Platanichthys, Ramnogaster, Rhinosardinia, and Stolothrissa).
The strong taste people associate with anchovies is due to the curing process. Fresh anchovies, known in Italy as alici, have a much milder flavor. [7] The rare alici (anchovies - in the local dialect: "Sardoni barcolani") from the Gulf of Trieste near Barcola, which are only caught at Sirocco, are particularly sought after because of their white meat and special taste and fetch high prices ...
The Osmeriformes / ɒ s ˈ m ɛ r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the true or freshwater smelts and allies, such as the galaxiids and noodlefishes; they are also collectively called osmeriforms. They belong to the teleost superorder Protacanthopterygii, which also includes pike and salmon, among others.
The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) [2] is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia. [3] It is a small, Clupeoid fish with a large mouth and a long, laterally compressed body, which strongly resembles the European Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) with only slight differences in girth and fin position.
The fish was navigating the Andaman Sea — until it was caught by a fisherman and brought back to the Phuket Fishing Port. ... A New Species of Anchovy (Genus Thrissina) from the Andaman Sea and ...
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.