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Fish Is The Best Flavor And Quality Of A Fresh Fish

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Seafood has become more and more prevalent for people to want to eat these days. Fish in particular, all kinds, has become a bigger want. There are more than 30,000 different species of fish. There are different specifications such as the type, skeletal structure, and how the they are harvested. Fish can either be domesticated or man influenced or wild harvested, which delivers the best flavor and quality of a fresh fish. Fish can be purchased with many different options as well. Striper, or also known as: striped bass, rockfish, linesider, roller, squidhound, or simply as bass, or scientifically as Morone saxatilis. It is a coastal sport fish and native to pretty much the whole east coast and is wild caught and farmed in some cases. …show more content…

Oddly enough, striper is one of the California’s top ranking sport fish now. The fish was numbered at approximately 3 million adults in the early 1960s and about 775 thousand with 30% hatchery-reared in the early 1990s; this was when the fish was in relative abundance. Over the years last-ditch efforts are being made to restore western fisheries. Striper, a round fish, has several qualities that can be used to differentiate them from other fish found on the east coast. It has a large mouth, which has jaws that extend backward to just below the eye. There are two prominent spines on the gill covers. The first, most anterior of its two well-developed and separated dorsal fins, has a series of sharp and stiffened spines. The anal fin on the other hand, which is about as long as the posterior dorsal fin has three sharp spines. Its upper body can either appear to be steel blue, light green, olive, brown, or black depending on its ecosystem it lives in. The lateral line that the fish has is marks their silvery sides and has either seven or eight continuous stripes around it. Their bellies or undersides are typically white or silver, with a brassy iridescence to it in some cases. Striper typically live up to forty years, five feet in length, and reach weights greater than 100 pounds in most cases. The females are usually greater in size than the males and when the stripers are over thirty pounds, most likely it is a female. The females also tend to

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