Baltic sprat

Baltic sprat

Taxobox
name = Baltic sprat
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Clupeiformes
familia = Clupeidae
genus = "Sprattus"
species = "S. sprattus balticus"
trinomial = "Sprattus sprattus balticus"
trinomial_authority = (Schneider, 1908)
The Baltic sprat, "Sprattus sprattus balticus" is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found near the surface in the temperate northeast Atlantic Ocean in southern Skagerrak and Mecklenburg and Kiel Bays to Kvarken in the Gulf of Bothnia and to Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. Its length is up to 16 cm.

In the Gulf of Finland the Baltic sprat's eggs develop pelagically and do not descend to the bottom. Spawning occurs far from shore, from the end of May until the beginning of August. Young sprats are commonly known as brisling.

Canned sprats (usually smoked) are available in many north European countries, including the Baltic States, Scandinavia, Germany, Poland and Russia. They are an important Latvian export.

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