Sardine is a general term for some food fishes of the sardine, small sardine, pseudonenenebd sardines and herring families of the order Herringiformes, teleostera. It also refers to ordinary clupee harengus and other small herring or herring like fish that are made into canned oil immersed fish.
Sardine are called sardines in Hong Kong, also known as sardines, minces and fish. The smaller one is two inches long, the larger one is about a foot long, the lower jaw is slightly longer than the upper jaw, the teeth are not obvious, the back is pale and the belly is white, the meat is beautiful, and it is often used to make canned food. Originally captured in Sardinia, Italy and named after it, it was referred to as "sardonios" in ancient Greek, meaning "from the island of Sardinia". Distributed in the temperate ocean region at 6~20 degrees north and south latitudes.
Sardine are mainly used for food, but fish meat can also be used as animal feed. Sardines oil is used to make paints, pigments and linoleum, and in Europe to make margarine. It is also an important marine economic fish species in the world.
Sardine are social fishes. When gathered, the number of sardine can reach 300 million.
Appearance characteristics: sardine are slender silver fish, with short dorsal fin and only one, no lateral lines, and no scales on the head; The body length is approximately 15-30 centimeters (6-12 inches). Dense population, coastal migration, feeding on a large amount of plankton. Mainly spawning in spring, the eggs and hatched juveniles drift with the water until they metamorphose into free swimming fish.
