Author: (Borodin, 1904)
FBname: Anchovy sprat
Comments: Occurs mainly in the open sea, occasionally approaching the shore and sometimes forming large schools.  Rises to the surface in the spring months, but descending to as much as 78 m in late summer (apparently rising again in October-November, but descending once more in winter).  Breeds intermittently from end of April to November, mainly in July, in the open sea.