Can Sardines Be Farmed Artificially? A Detailed Explanation of the Market Price per Jin
Sardines are called sardine fish in Hong Kong, China, and are mainly used as food, but the fish meat can also be made into animal feed and is mostly used to make canned food. They were named after being first caught in Sardinia, Italy, and are distributed in the isothermal temperate ocean regions between 6 and 20 degrees north and south latitude, so can sardines be farmed artificially? What is the market price per jin?
1. Can sardines be farmed artificially
Sardines are very difficult to raise and are generally not farmed artificially; sardines are warm-water fish of offshore waters, are very difficult to raise, are lazy by nature, often crowd together and remain motionless, and have a very high mortality rate. They usually live in dense schools and migrate along the coast, feeding on large amounts of plankton, and mainly spawn in spring. The eggs and the fry that hatch a few days later drift with the water until they metamorphose into free-swimming fish. The suitable temperature for most sardines is around 20-30°C, and only a few species have a lower suitable temperature, such as the Japanese sardine, whose suitable temperature is 8-19°C. Fishing generally uses light purse seines, drift gillnets, large haul seines and set nets, etc.
2. The price of sardines
Sardines grow quickly and have strong reproductive capacity, and their price is relatively cheap, usually around 16 yuan per jin. A can costs only about ten yuan, and contains at least about five sardines. Sardines sold on the market are rarely sold by weight; most are sold by the ton or by the box, 10 kg per box, 1-10 boxes starting at 129 yuan, 11-99 boxes starting at 119 yuan, and about 100 boxes starting at 108 yuan.
3. Sardine varieties
1. Goldstripe sardinella
The goldstripe sardinella is a species in the genus Sardinella of the family Clupeidae, order Clupeiformes. Its body is cylindrical and slightly compressed, 129-168 mm long, with a medium-sized head and a broad back. The eyes are medium-sized, with a well-developed adipose eyelid covering most of the eye. The mouth is small, the upper and lower jaws are equal in length, and there are fine teeth on the palatine bones and tongue. The gill openings are large and there are false gills. It is distributed from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Indian archipelago in the eastern West Pacific and southern Japan. In China it is distributed along the coast from the East China Sea to the South China Sea.
2. Japanese sardine
The Japanese sardine, also known as the spotted sardine, is one of the species in the family Clupeidae of the order Clupeiformes, class Actinopterygii. It is distributed in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic regions, including the waters of South Africa, East Africa, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, China, the Philippines, the west coast of the United States, the west coast of Canada, Central America and the west coast of South America. It gathers in large schools, and a school of forty or fifty thousand fish seems very common. It lives by filter-feeding on plankton.
3. South American pilchard
The South American pilchard is a small to medium-sized migratory fish of the middle and upper layers of coastal and offshore waters. It is distributed from southern Africa to the eastern Pacific, and is produced in various places across Taiwan, China. It is a small to medium-sized migratory fish of the middle and upper layers of coastal and offshore waters, is schooling, and mainly feeds on plankton such as diatoms, copepods and other small invertebrates. The annual global production exceeds 500,000 tons, and the main fishing methods are drift gillnets, purse seines, torchlight nets and trawls.
4. Sauvageta sardinella
The Sauvageta sardinella, also known as Qiu's small sardine or golden-banded sardine, with common names such as green-scale fry, anchovy fry and sardine, is one of the species in the family Clupeidae of the order Clupeiformes, class Actinopterygii. It is a small to medium-sized migratory fish of the middle and upper layers of coastal and offshore waters, is schooling, and mainly feeds on plankton such as diatoms, copepods and other small invertebrates. It is mainly distributed in the waters of the western Indian Ocean, from India to Sri Lanka, and can also be found in Madagascar and Mauritius, and is also distributed in the South China Sea of China.
5. Fringed-scale sardinella
The fringed-scale sardinella is a small to medium-sized migratory fish of the middle and upper layers of coastal and offshore waters, sometimes entering estuaries, inner bays or lagoons. It is schooling and mainly feeds on plankton such as diatoms, copepods and other small invertebrates. It is distributed from eastern Africa in the west to the Philippines in the east, from Taiwan, China in the north to Papua New Guinea in the south. In Taiwan, China it is distributed in the southern, western and Penghu waters. Its output is not large, and it is often mixed in bottom trawl catches. It can be sold fresh, dried or pickled, and the main fishing methods are drift gillnets, purse seines and trawls.
The above is Tuliu.com's introduction to the market price and varieties of sardines. Sardines are deep-sea fish and are not suitable for artificial farming. Sardines are warm-water fish of offshore waters, are generally not seen in the open sea or ocean, and usually inhabit the middle and upper layers, so artificial farming is difficult.