Deep sea fish giperoglif: description and characteristics

giperoglif Fish belongs to the order of the Perciformes family Tsentrolofovye.There are 6 species.The most common of them - the Japanese, the South, the Antarctic and the Atlantic.And if the last of the species live in the Atlantic Ocean, the first natural habitat is temperate and subtropical waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.This giperoglif distributed along the coast of Japan and the southern Kuril Islands.It is also found in the waters of the Sea of ​​Japan, from the island of Tsushima to the southern part of Sakhalin and from Pusan ​​to the north of Primorye.

Giperoglif - fish with a relatively high body bluish or greenish-gray in color with a reddish-brown hues.And the belly and flanks are lighter and darker head spin.Covers gills with silver tints.Juveniles may differ not very pronounced striped coloring.Japanese Giperoglif has a rather large head, which is at least 30% of the total body, it had bare blunt and short snout.The eyes have an average value with a golden iris.The jaws are equipped with single-row, sharp, frequent and small teeth.The dorsal fin is continuous, chest - rounded and relatively small, and pointed at the young.But ventral fins are weak.Over operculum begins sideline.She gently curving, it extends beyond the end of the pectoral fins, and is in the middle of the sides before the end of the anal.The body length can reach 90 cm, weight - 10 kg, often there are individuals not more than 40-60 cm.

Few is what it looks like fish giperoglif because they do not know everything about her, and her scientists Biologylittle studied.The adults live at the bottom of the rather deep water (100 to 450 m).They feed on small benthic fish, their youth, and tunicates, cephalopods, and all sorts of shellfish.Their reproduction virtually nothing is known.Presumably, fish giperoglif buttonhole spawn in late fall.Her youth prefers to stay close to the shore or in the water column.In other words, in the water column between the bottom and the surface.They try to stay under the drifting algae or any floating objects.Off the coast of Canada in the Atlantic waters can be found from June to October.

mainly independent commercial value fish giperoglif not.In the North Atlantic, it is rather the object of the by-catch in coastal waters, where it fished water trawls.But in Japan, and Chile is a food fish.Along the shores of these countries, it forms shoals over the continental shelf in the bottom layers of the pelagic zone and the open sea.It is especially prized in Japan and used as a table fish.Boiled its meat is very tasty and juicy, and the broth has a wonderful aroma.Also, it is good in the cold and hot smoked fillets with partitions.

giperoglif In Russia, too, are caught as by-catch, the year is not more than 10-12 tonnes.And in the summer and autumn (during migration), it becomes an object of sporting and recreational fishing.Catch him spinning around the island or islands Furugelm Rimsky-Korsakov, who are in Peter the Great Bay.