in marine waters, as we all know, home to a huge variety of different animals.Quite a large share of them are fish.They are - an integral part of this amazing ecosystem.The diversity of vertebrate marine life and the ocean is amazing.There are very crumbs having a length of one centimeter, and there are giants, reaching eighteen meters.
UNDERWATER
And how tasty saltwater fish!List familiar to us from childhood impressive names: pollock, herring, capelin, saury, cod, hake, halibut, rockcod ... There are also more exotic specimens.For example, sea horse, able to move in vertical position in the water column, it is interesting also that the family of these fish give birth to males.Or the whale shark - the largest sea fish, got due to its size in the Guinness Book of Records (her weight reaches thirty-four tons and its length may exceed twenty meters).Despite this, the whale shark has a very peaceable disposition, and feeds only on plankton.Desperate divers sometimes manage to touch it and even take a ride on the back.Another extremely interesting sea dweller - mudskipper.For the fish he has a very unusual structure of the body: it allows the tail to jump high and fins instead of hands and are allowed to move on land.Mudskipper of resemble lizards, but the presence of the fins and gills clearly indicates that these strange animals belong to the fish.
hard to imagine how much more amazing inhabitants lurking underwater.And polar, and is found in tropical areas saltwater fish.The names of hundreds of newly discovered species every year, we hear from the scientists.Yes, no wonder they say that the depths of the oceans are studied even worse than the cosmos!This article will talk about what are the different types of marine fish, talk about the usefulness and nutritional quality of various vertebrates.Of course, we can only touch on the most common species, because all there are more than thirty thousand.
Commercial sea fish.Photos and names
More than a third of the world catch up commercial fish - those characterized by high population density and high strength.There are pelagic species that live near the surface of the sea and in the upper layers (mackerel, herring, tuna), bottom and bottom fish living on the bottom or near the bottom in the bottom layers (cod, flounder, pollock, halibut).It is noted that in vitro diluted fishery sea fish.List of species will not be fully transferred: they are representatives of families of flatfish, mackerel, carangidae and many others.Then we tell about the individuals that make up the mass of goods on store shelves.
Cod fish
All members of this family differ little fat meat (usually up to one per cent) and high reserves of fat in the liver (seventy percent).The main species - cod, black cod, haddock, saffron cod, hake, eel, hake, pollock.
1. Cod
Perhaps one of the best edible fish, different dense white meat, serving an excellent source of protein, and the absence of minor muscular bones.It has unsurpassed nutritional qualities and acts of natural raw materials for fish oil.It is also very useful in liver and cod roe.
2. Haddock
has the most tasty and tender meat of all the cod.On the shelves can come under the name of "cod", but haddock is easily distinguished by a black band.This marine capture fish at the average annual volume of catch occupies the third place in the world, second only to pollock and cod.Famous for excellent balance of minerals in the composition.A good source of potassium and sodium.From haddock often prepared diet meals.
3. Black cod
very popular saltwater fish.Names can be found different - fish oil, coal fish.On the other cod different scales having a metal reflux.It has excellent taste, rich in fats: omega-3 fatty acids in it for fifty percent more than in salmon.Black cod contains a lot of niacin, selenium, vitamin B12.It is useful for people with weakened immune systems, high cholesterol, those who often experience stress and anxiety.
4. Navaga
subdivided into Pacific (Far East) and North.The first type is characterized by a large size (specimens weigh up to one kilogram), but it is appreciated by consumers less.Pacific saffron cod has a coarser and not so tasty, flavorful and juicy as the northern and meat.This white sea fish is a low-calorie.
5. Burbot
There are two kinds of fishing burbot: red and white.It is better to buy fish of the first kind: despite the fact that it has a smaller size (weight up to one kilogram, while the white burbot can reach four kilos in weight), it tastes much better.In general, the consistency of the meat of this fish is rougher than that of cod.Fat is virtually absent (0.1 percent).
6. hake and whiting
very close to each other marine fish (picture below).In total there are about ten species.Skin-scale cover painted in color from yellowish-silver and gray to brown and almost black.The quality of meat is clearly superior cod: quite gentle, white, with good taste, quite fat (up to four per cent fat).
7. Pollock
This benthic marine fish common in the North Pacific.The length reaches ninety centimeters, and weight - four kilograms.It is found in Asia (in the Bering, Japan, Sea of Okhotsk) and the US Coast (Monterey Bay and Alaska).Atlantic pollock lives in the Barents Sea.The meat of this fish is very easy to prepare: you can boil, jerk, fried, baked in foil.It contains a wide range of useful substances: vitamins A, C, PP, E, B-group, chlorine, potassium, iron, calcium, iodine and other minerals.The fat content - up to two percent.
flounder fish
This family isolated itself flounder and halibut.Their consumer properties are not the same.Among the best are the Far East flatfish yellowfin, which has bright yellow fins zheltopolosaya, dark and Japanese.Among the well known family of flatfish sole.These fish vary elongated body and a very tasty meat.Generally, in the deep sea lives of at least five hundred flatfish species.
1. Flounder
It is also called the sea chicken.The meat of this fish is white, tasty, no small bones (except the starry flounder, whose bone formation are scattered throughout the body).Fat content - from one to five percent.It has a well-deserved popularity North Sea views, as well as common in the Atlantic plaice.This saltwater fish flattened body is different and interesting arrangement of the eye.Meat flounder - a storehouse of selenium, vitamins A and D, it is loved by connoisseurs of delicate flavor, but at the same time, not everyone likes its specific strong odor.
2. Halibut
most famous species - Greenland, black and halibut.This oily sea fish (fat content - from five to twenty-two percent) of white tasty and tender meat that has a sweet flavor.Halibut, especially Khingan - an excellent source of fatty acids (one hundred grams of fillet - one gram of omega-3 fatty acids), there very few bones.Saturation magnesium, potassium, selenium, phosphorus, vitamins B6 and B12.This fish will save you from atherosclerosis and arrhythmia, improve blood flow by relaxing the arteries and veins, and a decline in their resistance.
mackerel fish
trade in specimens of this family are sold under different names.There are Far East, the Kuril, Atlantic (ocean), Azov-Black Sea mackerel, bonito, tuna.Typically, the meat of this fish is quite fat, no small bones, gentle.
1. Mackerel
One of the most popular fish in Russia.Not everyone knows that the most useful - autumn mackerel, at this time, its fat content reaches thirty per cent of its own weight, while the fat content of fish catch spring is only three percent.This saltwater fish contains a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins B12 and D.
2. Tuna
Distributed in the waters of the Atlantic, held in the adjacent layers and the surface of the water.This gregarious predatory big fish.It is very thermophilic, so in the Black Sea appears only in July and August.The length reaches four meters and weigh more than half a ton can.It is a tempting prize for any fisherman.There are skipjack, albacore, yellowfin, spotted, bigeye tuna.Meat different low fat - up to two percent.
3. Bonito
The shape of the body resembles tuna, only in proportion to the reduction.This gregarious predatory fish lives in the Black Sea reaches a weight of seven kilograms, and at length - eighty-five centimeters.Bonito, like tuna, heat-loving, so the winter leave the Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea in the water shoals back quite depleted, so to catch such a person is rarely possible.There are many kinds of bonito: king mackerel (wahoo), plain bonito, Savary, spotted bonito and others.The meat of this fish is light in color, firm texture and pleasant flavor, it contains two to five percent fat (except for monochrome bonito, which has a fat content of up to twenty percent).
carangidae fish
total there are about two hundred species.Besides the horse mackerel, this family includes trevally, Vomero, lihiyu, yellowtail and others.The meat of horse mackerel, which has a grayish color, richness is two to four percent.The most delicious - desyatiperaya fish by weight, it is somewhat larger than usual.Scad different kind of taste and odor (sour).Fat trevally - half a percentage point, Vomero - one or two per cent, Leahy - three to five percent.
Scorpionfish fish
All kinds of families are marketed under the name "sea bass".In the Atlantic commercial value tend to perch mentella (beaked whale) in the Pacific Ocean - the red snapper.Atlantic species contain six percent fat, almost half the fat has a Pacific fish.Redfish - a valuable raw material for cooking, from it obtained a very tasty fish broth.
Sparovye fish
Pagrus Cuban carp, bream, fish-chon, tooth Scapa - all members of the family sparovyh.On the shelves, they may come under the single name "ocean carp."Enjoy low-fat (up to two per cent), juicy, tender meat.An exception in terms of fat content is only Scapa, its meat contains seven to ten percent fat.The taste resembles the representative sparovyh carp.Dourado also called sea carp and golden Spar.Appearance it a bit fierce, but the meat - tasty, fragrant, with a minimal amount of bone.Due to the presence of unsaturated fatty acids, including myristic, palmitic, lauric, this saltwater fish is very helpful.Eating Dorada, you will save the heart from the effects of free radicals and prevent the formation of blood clots.
nototheniids fish
in Antarctica in recent years have mastered the craft delicious fish - rockcod and other members of this family: ocean goby, toothfish, Squam.Of these species the fattest individuals - Toothfish (containing twenty to twenty-five percent fat), followed by marble rockcod (eight to sixteen percent) Squam (four to six percent) and gobies ocean (half a percent).Data fish meat is white, dense, fragrant, no small bones.
croakers fish
family has one hundred and fifty species.Among SKUs individuals arriving on store shelves, we are best known sea trout, fish-captain (otolith), croaker, umbrina.The catch there are instances in weight from one to ten to twelve kilograms, fat content of up to three percent.Do not fish meat medium non-rigid and not too rough, have large - coarse fiber.All members of the family croakers, especially umbrina and otolith are valuable species, because virtually no taste and smell of the sea, on the nutritional properties resemble traditional fish found in inland waters.Trout piroksidinom rich in vitamins A and E, omega-3 acids.This nutritious and delicious fish is loved by consumers and advocates ingredient in many dishes.
Herring fish
Perhaps no man who at least once in his life did not eat herring.Every Russian child she's known since childhood.This fish has a very valuable commercial value, lives mainly in the northern parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.The herring plenty of protein, vitamin A, polyunsaturated fats.However, as it has many bones that, however, did not stop to win great popularity among the population.Often used in the herring salted.In the Netherlands, a large smoky fish called the "hall" and a fine salty - "bekling."
smelt fish
most famous representative of this family - capelin.This small marine fish is almost krugopolyarnoe distribution: in the northern parts of the Atlantic (Barents Sea) and the Pacific, in the Arctic.Consumers sometimes overlook affordable small fish.And for good reason.It certainly should be included in the diet!Where else can you find so much potassium, iodine, sodium?But by capelin in the store are not the owners of cats - pets adore this fish.It little connective tissue and at the same time a lot of fatty acids and protein (about twenty-three percent) that lower blood cholesterol, carefully removed from the vascular wall plaques.Capelin can be prepared very quickly, it turns out the most delicious smoked and roasted.
In conclusion
Marine fish, photos and descriptions were given in this article - is, of course, only a small part of all the vertebrates that live in the waters of the oceans.We talked only of those species that consumers are essential.Once in the country Thursday was considered a fish day.Now, all kinds of fish, especially sea, appears on our tables almost daily.This is easily explained: the inhabitants of the deep sea meat contains the necessary human health fats, amino acids and vitamins.This saltwater fish for sanitation is estimated much more useful fresh water on it practically does not affect human impact on the environment, so the inhabitants of the seas less contaminated with heavy metals do not contain hazardous for people radionuclides and pesticides.
