Marine fish barracuda is very similar to a pike.Her body like a long cylinder covered with small scales.Slightly pointed head with strong teeth and front teeth, too, looks like a pike head.Distinguish barracuda possible by the strong dorsal fin, decorated with five "rays", and a well-developed side.Sefirot (also known as the fish) is valued in some countries for a very tasty meat.However, few people know that not every edible barracuda.Fish can cause heavy, sluggish, but incurable poisoning.Ciguatera (poisoned) begins with strong muscle pains.Later they were joined by sores on the skin, the nervous system is broken.Illness gives many signs that not every doctor can properly diagnose.Ciguatera often ends with the death of the patient.However, not all species are poisonous barracuda.In total there are 20 to 26 species of predators kefaleobraznyh.It's great barracuda, silver, Japanese, yellowtail, striped, roundnose, red, Australian and others.
These different barracuda
All kinds of barracudas live only in the seas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.Ideal conditions for them - a subtropical climate.Off the coast of Central America usual great barracuda.Fish puffers eat meat, live among the corals.Poisonous substances accumulate in its fins, and Sefirot becomes poisonous.That it causes ciguatera.However, some sources claim that the great barracuda eats only tuna and sometimes even attacking bathers.Giant is often mistaken for a shark.Especially big barracuda grow to 300 cm. But because of their toxicity, they are interested in a little fishing.Off the coast of Japan, East Africa met each barracuda.The fish (striped) small - only 60 cm, but very tasty.It is much appreciated by the Japanese.Around Mexico and Southern California, many members of the species' silvery barracuda. "This fish - fishing base in San Diego and Los Angeles.In the Black Sea from the Mediterranean often go oblong individuals with silvery-gray sides, greenish back, dark stripes along the body and head, vaguely similar to schuchyu.This is also a barracuda.Fish (Sefira melkocheshuynaya) lives at shallow depths, different predatory disposition, as well as all her relatives.Sefirot victim can wait in the bush or among the rocks, and small flocks may attack the anchovies or the like, and a long time to pursue them.At the same time, barracudas rarely gather in large flocks.Even in the Gulf of Guinea, where so many predators, they are rarely mined trawl, but often with the help of hooks.Meat barracuda - one of the favorite in Africa.Four kinds of Sefirot are found in the Mediterranean, eight - in the Red.In the Black Sea fish rarely swim in the Mediterranean.
How useful barracuda
juicy meat during cooking loses just one-fifth of the water and the fat is almost all.Fragrant Fish replenishes the body polyunsaturated acids and antioxidants, dissolves cholesterol, improves coagulation and normalizes vision.
