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HOW DID SARDINES GET THEIR NAME

May 25, 2018

The scientific name is Sardina pilchardus, a small shad like fish. They live on the surface of sea water. Widely distributed, the eastern north Atlantic and Mediterranean areas are the largest. The body length can reach 25 cm. Upper part of the body light green blue, abdomen silver white.

Pacific Salmon

Popular names: Pacific sardines, California sardines, South American sardines, Chilean sardines.

Origin and date of birth:

California, Oregon.

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Introduction:

Sardinops sagsx is a member of the herring family. They range from southern Chile to the vast eastern Pacific waters of British Columbia, Canada to the north. Pacific sardines are abundant in resources and can yield more than 4 million tons a year in high yield.

Pacific sardines have several different market names depending on their origin, including South American sardines, Chilean sardines and California sardines.

Sardine fishing in the United States has a long and inconsistent history. In the 1930s and 1940s, the port city of Monterey, calif., ran a large cannery industry that processed more than 700,000 tons of the small silverfish a year. But by the 1940s sardines had begun to shrink, and commercial varieties had all but disappeared until recently.

What's the name of sardines

Sardines sardines said by people in Hong Kong, also called fish, Wen and 鰯 advantage. The small one is two inches long, the big one is about two inches long, the lower jaw is a little longer than the upper one, the teeth are not obvious, the back of the stomach is white, the flesh is beautiful, it is used to make canned food. Originally captured in Sardinia, Italy, it was named after what the ancient greeks called "sardonios," meaning "from the island of Sardinia." It is distributed in 6 ~ 20 degrees of northern and southern latitudes in temperate ocean regions.