Noun:

உணவிற்குப் பயன்படும் சிறு கடல் மீன் வகை,

sprats's Usage Examples:

In the following December large numbers were taken together with sprats at Torquay.

When taken in British waters anchovies are either thrown away or sent to the market fresh with the sprats.

Adults fed their chicks mainly on sprats with small gadoids being the main alternative.

The fish caught are principally sardines, bonito, smelts and sprats.

Food is more daring than average: think smoked sprats, cuttlefish risotto or spiced beef with pickled walnuts.

The harbour yields sprats which are in great repute.

"It is now known to consist of the young fry of herrings and sprats in varying proportions mixed with a few shrimps, gobies, sticklebacks, pope-fishes and young flounders: but these impurities are as far as possible picked out from the whitebait before it is marketed.

The fishing is carried on from February to August, and samples taken in the successive months were found to contain the following percentages of herrings, the remainder being young sprats: 7, 5, 1 4, 3 0, 8 7, 75, 52.

Large quantities of sprats are caught.

Also the so-called "white-bait" is not a distinct species, but consists chiefly of the fry or the young of herrings and sprats, and is obtained "in perfection" at localities where these small fishes find an abundance of food, as in the estuary of the Thames.

The fisheries are important - for herring, mackerel, sprats, cod, salmon, lobsters and anchovies.

The so-called "Norwegian anchovies" imported into England in little wooden kegs are nothing but sprats pickled in brine with bay-leaves and whole pepper.

In the former year considerable numbers were taken off Dover in drift nets of small mesh used for the capture of sprats.

Synonyms:

Clupea, brisling, genus Clupea, Clupea sprattus, sardine,

Antonyms:

None