Sprat fish

At the mention of sprat fish, we immediately present dishes prepared with the famous canned sprats, which were once a real delicacy. About 40 years ago, in order to get a coveted jar of sprat, you had to sweat a lot, run, and sometimes even give a bribe to a trade worker.

In today's world, such a problem no longer exists. Now you can go to any store and buy canned sprats, which are produced from the fish of the same name. Sprat fish belongs to the Herring family. The German name for the fish Sprotte was fixed in Russian for a long time.

Sprat fish is a small sea fish. The body length of sprat fish rarely exceeds 15 cm, it is believed that the maximum sprat size is 18 cm. With such a small size of fish, sprats have a small weight, only 10-12 grams in one fish. The sprat genus lives in the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic Seas.

The largest fish harvesting fisheries are located in the North, Baltic and Norwegian Sea. Denmark, the Russian Federation, Norway, Yugoslavia and Latvia produce sprats on an industrial scale.

The creature subspecies of sprat fish is the European sprat (Sprattus). European sprat is actively mined in the Russian Federation off the coast of the Baltic and Black Seas. Sprat fish live in a flock, this greatly facilitates the extraction of such fish. The European sprat, in turn, is divided into several species - Sprattus sprattus balticus, Sprattus sprattus sprattus and Sprattus sprattus phalericus.

For example, the famous Baltic canned sprats are made from Sprattus sprattus balticus, this fish is popularly called sprat. The Baltic sprat or sprat is the main object of fishing. The habitat of Baltic sprat fish is limited to the Gulf of Riga or the Gulf of Finland.