fish garfish (photo of this predator can be seen below in the picture), not without reason claims to be the sea pike despite its modest appearance.In fact, this predator can be called pretty.He painted quite modest, but tasteful.Against the background of bright silvery abdomen looks elegantly contrasting dark green back.The body is rounded, long and swept, saury is very similar.Jaws swept a predator and sharp at the ends, the lower of which is much longer than the upper.Mouth as if strewn with small teeth and have to catch prey almost no chance to escape from it.Anal and dorsal fins are located closer to the tail.
gar fish, or fish-arrow belongs to the genus Sarganovye.This gregarious predator lives off the coast of North Africa and Europe in a moderately warm waters.It is also found in the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, the North, the Mediterranean, the Baltic and Barents Seas.It keeps the fish close to the surface of the water.For a bunch of long Garðar can watch and admire them.Swim they undulations, and just suddenly start to rush to the edge of the water as quickly pop out and has twists in the air flying, flashing her wet silvery sides.
Such dancing fish garfish picks in two cases: either it is something escapes or hunting for insects over the water.The latter can be called in addition to the basic diet of predators.They feed on small fish.The diet consists of anchovy, mackerel fry, sprat, and small crustaceans they too do not disdain.Settled way of life alien to them, for example, the spring fish garfish in the Black Sea anchovy migrates behind the Sea of Azov.In the afternoon, she usually tries to be in the deeper layers of the water, and at nightfall rises to the surface.
sexual maturity fish garfish usually only reaches the 5th or 6th year of life, although some individuals can mature and at age three.Long spring spawning begins in late April and lasts until mid-October.Most of Sargans buttonhole eggs from May to the second half of August.Trehmillimetrovye eggs laid on floating objects or algae and attach themselves to it with long filaments, which they there are at least 60 pieces.Egg development is dependent on water temperature.It can last from 10 days to 5 weeks.
In the Black Sea the first larvae appear in the coastal zone in early June, they hold the upper water layers.From adults they differ greatly shorter jaws.At the end of the first year of his life small predators become typical of his kind face and begin to retreat to the depths.Live fish garfish may be more than 13 years, but commercial catches often prevail 5-9-year olds.Is this fish is one feature: it has a skeleton green.In this regard, many have a lack of confidence about the edibility of a predator.However, doubt is not necessary, and garfish are delicious fried, and cured and salted and smoked.A green color is obtained from the bones of the pigment biliverdin, which is the product of these fish metabolism.By the way, the same bones can be seen at the eelpout fish.
In the world there are only 25 species of Sargans, but in the Black Sea meets the Atlantic only garfish, or ordinary.In different countries this fish is called anguis or snipe.In Finland - a Zuya fish in Turkey - Zargan fish, and in the Crimea - the needle, although the latter - it is a completely different marine life and nothing to Sargans has.
