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What kind of fish is a whitebait? Is it a sea fish?

Walter White
2020-12-01 01:34:40
Whitebait is a fish of the genus Whitebait in the family Salangidae, order Salmoniformes, class Osteichthyes. Their bodies are slender and cylindrical, their mouths and eyes are large, and their snouts are triangular. Their bodies are soft, their surfaces are scaleless, and their colors are transparent. They are very small and only a dozen centimeters long when they grow up. Whitebait is found offshore and in estuaries. The main food of whitebait is plankton and its metabolites. Whitebait can be cultured artificially and has high economic value.
What kind of fish is a whitebait? Is it a sea fish?

1. what

is whitebait? Whitebait is also called "silver fish", "rice fish", "firecracker fish" and so on, which is one of the common fish in our country. In terms of category, icefish belongs to the species of icefish in the family of icefish, order Salmoniformes, class Osteichthyes. The body of the whitebait is very slender and cylindrical in shape; the eyes and mouth are relatively large, and the snout is triangular. The body of whitebait is very soft, and there are no scales on the surface of the body. Their bodies are transparent, but they turn white after death. Whitebait is a very small fish, nearly a dozen centimeters after adulthood, and there are fewer larger individuals of whitebait.

From the point of view of living environment, whitebait belongs to freshwater fish, which is most widely distributed in the eastern part of China, including the coastal areas of the Yangtze River Basin and near the estuary, where a large number of whitebait live. In addition, there are many species of whitebait, which are not only distributed in China, but also in many other countries, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Russia and so on. Because the size of whitebait itself is relatively small, so they can not eat too large organisms, their main food is some plankton near the living environment. In addition, whitebait is also a kind of fish that can be cultured artificially. Their economic value is very high. They can be eaten and contain rich nutrition.

2. Is whitebait a sea fish

? It has been introduced above. From the point of view of living environment, whitebait is a freshwater fish, not a sea fish. Specifically, whitebait lives in coastal areas and freshwater basins in inland areas. There are many species of whitebait themselves, and their distribution areas are different. In our country, there are quite a few whitebait, especially the whitebait living in Taihu Lake, which is very famous and has high economic value.

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