The difference between Spanish mackerel and sardines

Spanish mackerel is known as blue mackerel, commonly known as swallow, plate mackerel, bamboo mackerel, pointed mackerel, green arrow and so on. Sardines are produced in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Sardines are sardines, sardines and some edible fish of the family herring. Let's take a look at the difference between Spanish mackerel and sardines.

Differences in families and genera between Spanish mackerel and sardines

1. Spanish mackerel: Spanish mackerel belongs to the warm pelagic fishes of the order Perciformes, Spanish family, Pan-Fried Mackerel, belonging to the animal kingdom, phylum Chordata, subphylum Chordata, class bony fishes.

2. Sardines: sardines belong to the animal kingdom, phylum Chordata, subphylum vertebrate, bony fishes, radiofin subclass, herring order, herring family, sardines and small sardines and sardines belong to coastal warm water fishes.

Morphological differences between Spanish mackerel and sardines

1. Spanish mackerel: Spanish mackerel is long and flat on the side, showing a spindle shape, with a general body length of 25 cm and a weight of 300 kg. The maximum individual length can reach 1 meter and weigh more than 4.5 kg. The caudal stalk is thin, with 3 ridges on each side, with the central ridge being the longest and highest. The head is longer than the body height. The mouth is large, slightly inclined, the teeth are sharp and large, and the arrangement is sparse. The body is finely scaly, and the lateral lines are irregularly wavy. There are black round spots in the center of the body. There are 2 dorsal fins, the first dorsal fin is long, there are 1920 fin spines, the second dorsal fin is shorter, and the dorsal fin and anal fin each have 8 small fins. The pectoral fin and ventral fin are short and without hard spines. The caudal fin is large and deeply forked.

2. Sardines: sardines are slender small silver fish with short dorsal fins and only one dorsal fin, no lateral line and scaleless head. The body length is about 15cm to 30cm. Dense groups, coastal migration, feeding on large amounts of plankton. They spawn mainly in spring, and young fish that hatch a few days later drift with the water before they become free-swimming fish.

Difference of producing area between Spanish mackerel and sardine

1. Spanish mackerel: Spanish mackerel is distributed in the western North Pacific Ocean and produced in the East China Sea, Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. The main fishing grounds are Zhoushan, Lianyungang and the southern coast of Shandong. Spring flood is from April to June, autumn flood is from July to October, and peak season is from May to June.

2. Sardines: sardines are distributed in isothermal marine areas at latitudes 6-20 degrees from north to south. Sardines are mainly composed of more than 10 species of sardines in China, and the yields of golden sardines and Qiu's sardines are higher.

Differences in efficacy between Spanish mackerel and sardines

1. Spanish mackerel: Spanish mackerel has delicate meat, delicious taste, rich nutrition, tonifying qi, relieving cough, certain curative effect on weak cough and asthma, refreshing and anti-aging and other dietotherapy functions. regular diet has a certain auxiliary effect in the treatment of anemia, premature senility, malnutrition, postpartum weakness and neurasthenia.

2. Sardines: sardines are very nutritious and rich in phospholipids, protein and calcium. It has edible functions such as diluting blood, helping to dilate blood vessels, preventing the formation of potentially fatal blood clots, preventing hypertension and the increase of fat, protecting the abnormal beating of the heart, and so on. At the same time, the phospholipids in sardines play a beneficial role in promoting the brain development of the fetus.