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Anchovy is what fish, can be cultured?

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
2020-10-10 00:28:28
Anchovy is a fish in the family Engraulidae, Clupeiformes, class Osteichthyes. Their snout is round, their upper jaw is long, their body surface has small scales, their abdomen is round, and their tail is forked. Anchovies are small fish, ranging from 7.5 to 14 centimeters in length and weighing between 5 and 20 grams. Anchovy lives in the ocean and is widely distributed in temperate waters, including the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Anchovies feed on plankton in the water, mainly on planktonic crustaceans.
Anchovy is what fish, can be cultured?

1. What fish is anchovy

Anchovy refers to fish in the family Engraulidae, Clupeiformes, class Osteichthyes.The snout of this fish is relatively round, and the upper jaw is longer than the lower jaw.There are some small scales on the surface of their bodies, which are round, but they are easy to fall off.They have a rounded belly and a forked tail.From the size point of view, anchovy is a kind of small fish, their adult length is only 7.5-14 cm, weight is only 5-20 grams, from these two aspects are OK, their size is relatively small.

From the point of view of the living environment, anchovy belongs to a kind of fish living in the ocean, and from the point of view of its attributes, it is a marine fish.Specifically, anchovies live in temperate waters, which have certain requirements for water temperature and will not live in areas where water temperature is too low.Anchovy is also distributed in China, mainly in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.From the point of view of habits, anchovies mainly eat some plankton, among which their main food is planktonic crustaceans, in addition to bivalve larvae and arrow worms.Because of their small size, they become food for other marine animals.

2. can anchovy be cultured artificially?

Anchovy is a kind of fish that lives in the sea. It is a marine fish. Therefore, all kinds of structures of its body are adapted to marine life. Generally, it cannot live in fresh water.Therefore, it is more troublesome to breed them artificially and need to adjust the surrounding environment.Moreover, because the price of anchovies is not particularly high, artificial breeding of them will not achieve very high economic benefits.Therefore, at present, basically all anchovies are wild, sold after fishing in the ocean, and there are basically no artificial breeding varieties.

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