What kind of food do sardines eat?

Sardines are the genera of sardines, small sardines and quasi-sardines and some edible fishes of the family Herreridae of the family Herreridae. It also refers to the common herring and other small herring or herring that are canned in oil. It is named after it was originally caught in Sardinia, Italy, and is distributed in the isothermal marine area at latitudes 620 degrees north and south. Let's take a look at what sardines eat.

What kind of food do sardines eat?

Sardines mainly feed on plankton, depending on fish species, sea area and season, as well as adult and juvenile fish. For example, adult golden sardines mainly feed on planktonic crustaceans (including copepods, short-tailed larvae, telopods and prawns), as well as diatoms. In addition to planktonic crustacean larvae, young fish also eat diatoms and dinoflagellates. It will be attracted by light at night, so fishermen generally use light purse seine, drift Gill net, large pull net and set net and so on.

Are sardines deep-sea fish?

Sardines are deep-sea fish. Sardines are warm water fishes in coastal waters, generally not found in the open sea and oceans, and usually inhabit the middle and upper layers. In autumn and winter, adults inhabit deep water beyond 70 to 80 meters. In spring, when the coastal water temperature rises, the fish reproduce and migrate inshore, and the larvae and juveniles grow up along the coast. In summer, they gradually migrate northward with the South China Sea warm current, and in autumn, the surface water temperature decreases, so they migrate southward. After October, the fish have grown to more than 150 mm. Due to the decrease of coastal water temperature, it gradually transferred to the deeper sea area.

Where are the sardines from?

1. Sardines: sardines are cluster migratory fishes. Distributed in the northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean coast, not produced in China.

2. Sardines in the far East: sardines are distributed in eastern Honshu, southwestern Kyushu, the Sea of Japan and the Strait of horses. California sardines are found along the coasts of California and western Canada. South American sardines are found along the coasts of Chile and Peru in South America, Australia and New Zealand, and South African sardines along the coasts of southern Africa, Angola and Namibia.

3. Small sardines: there are more than 20 species of small sardines, and 16 species are distributed in various sea areas of the western Pacific Ocean of India, such as long-headed sardines, golden sardines, scaly sardines and so on. There are three species in the eastern Pacific Ocean, namely, small sardines, Panamanian sardines and big-eyed sardines. There are also three species of sardines in the western Atlantic, namely, golden sardines, Brazilian sardines and Bermuda sardines. There are four species in the eastern Atlantic, namely, golden sardines, Madeira sardines, Ebah sardines and Cameroon sardines.