Sardine
shape is small with flat body covered silvery,
reflective, and large scales. Uniquely, in the middle of their belly there are
scutes which are known as a set of specialized scales. Sardine fish is in fact
a name for numerous types of small pelagic fish and although many species of
sardines mostly found in Indonesia, Japan, India, and China, but a single
sardine fish species dominate areas around California coast and English
Channel.
Sardine is an oily fish that like to swim
in warm or tropical water however they can also swill as far north as Norway.
They like to migrate in large school from one place to another to find warmer
waters during cold months. Average sardine fish that you likely to encounter in
markets have tiny body with small teeth to no teeth at all. Moreover, they like
to swim near the water surface and that’s why many people like to sport fishing
sardines. Sardine is an abundant fish and during summer or spring they like to
spawn. The young sardines like to come to shore to find some food; they usually
feed on plant plankton while mature sardines prefer to eat animal plankton.
Meanwhile, all species of sardines are prey for larger predatory fish and not
to mention sardine fish like to be caught not only for seafood products, but
also for lures or baits to catch other fish.
Irregular
sardine shape characteristics
Sardine is a popular fish for centuries
with its irregular flat body sardine shape and
numerous scales. However, due the offensive smell, some people like to avoid
eating the fish and fresh sardine is quick to spoilage as well. Sardine is
smaller and shorter compared with other types of fish. In England, sardines can
also being called as young pilchard. Surprisingly, some site mentioned that
there are 21 species that can be called as sardines.
Sardine size is various from one year to
another depending on the current year class of the fish. However, sardines that
mostly caught by purse seine fishing method are usually range from 10 cm to 20
cm in size, but can growing up to 25 cm and usually the smaller size processed
into cans product. Sardines fish is abundant and this is why they are caught in
tons every year as several utilities including seafood product, lures/ baits,
animal’s food, oils, and many more.
Sardine
fish, little but it is actually a nicest seafood
Just like the subtitle, although many
people like to avoid eating sardine due to the strong smell, however once you
know how to cook it, sardine offensive smell can be reduced. It is true that
sardines are sometime considered to have weak flesh that easy to spoilage and
crumple. And maybe that’s also the reason of why people prefer to have another
type of fish. But, if you know how to maintain sardine freshness, surely you
will like its taste. Even sardines fish can be used to replace other fish in
certain recipes and it is recommended as well since sardines are low in
mercury.
It is natural that rot fish will not have a
great taste to try so to retain the freshness of the sardines, you need to
freeze the sardine by prepare a cooler box and then fill it with ice cubes. If
you want to store the sardine fish freshness for longer days then you may want
to freeze it by place the sardine in airtight plastic and then keep it inside
freezer. But, it is recommended that if you want to get the best taste, you
need to use the sardine as soon as possible.
After we all know about sardine shape characteristic and how to maintain
its freshness. You also need to understand about the habituality of the sardine
fish. Maybe you do not know yet but sardine likes to peel off their own scales
especially when they are threatened by the enemies or other marine creatures.
They like to drop off their scales to black out the predators. Of course that
sardines which lost its scales are weaker and in hurt and thus they easily die
then spoil. That’s why you may notice that sardine
shape sold in markets usually do not have scales or few scales since they
remove their scales when caught by the fishing net.
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