What is a sand eel?

The eel with the sand is not related to the real eel. It is a type of small silver fish most commonly used as a bait for game fish such as bluefish or striped bass. The scientific name of the sand is ammodetes Americanus . Ammodytes is a Greek compound word for a sandy shock-backer, which lies or hides from predators.

also known as a sand spear, the eel of the sand is usually slim with a narrow snout. Its color ranges from metal blue to dark bronze with a lighter bottom. Prismatic stands of eels allow them to mix into their surroundings by changing colors. For example, the eel in the clean waters of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the United States is generally paler than the eel with sand, located in the darker waters of the European North Sea. The eel from the sand has no teeth, but uses its protruding lower jaw to gain plankton and fish eggs, including Jehovah's offspring. Sand eels travel together in large schools of thousands. When they are in deeper waters, they are often rootIsti larger fish, such as Porpoises, which control them to the surface where commercial fishermen can catch a sand eel with nets.

Many flies who use sand eel as a living bait will catch them with a Sabiki set, a fishing device with many small hooks. The platform passes through the bottom of the shallow wheel of the river and hangs the eel of the sand, which is hidden in the sandy bottom. The eel is then kept alive in a small tank until it is used.

The friction season for North American sand is at the end of autumn to the beginning of winter. The female eel of sand can lay up to 30,000 eggs that are often not larger than the grains of sand around them. The level of growth for sand eel is not well known, but it is assumed that they are able to live up to four years.

written eel is not common, served as food in North America, but in Spain with fried sand eel with fried eggs serve as one of many TRsAdiic bar refreshments commonly called tapas . They are also captured in large numbers and processed into pet food and fertilizer. It is assumed that such demand for the eel of sand affects other populations of wild animals such as seafood, such as puffins that eat as the main part of their diet.