What is butter?

Butterfish, or peprilus triacanthus, is a school fish with an oval body that is roughly similar to Platýse. This small fish inhabits water along the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and Newfoundland. His body is mainly grayish blue and silver and is usually covered with a lot of dark irregular spots. Butterfish grows fast and sometimes able to reproduce when it is one year. Most specimens have an average life of approximately 3 years. They migrate how the water temperature fluctuates, floats south and further from the soil during the coldest months, then returns north and closer to the coast in the summer. Butterfish is often seen in schools 50 to 100 fish and spend most of the time near the water surface, feed on small fish, annelid worms and crustaceans such as shrimp and krill. They prefer depths of less than 180 feet (55 meters) and water temperatures between 40 ° F and 74 ° F (4.4 ° C to 23 ° C). Butterfish is experiencing high mortality and their many natural predators include Hammerhead, Swords, Plass, Cod and Bluefish.

will be created once a year between June and August and most of the eggs are found in July. Their eggs are transparent and round, with a diameter of 0.7 to 0.8 inches (1.8 to 2 centimeters). They hatch like larvae of approximately 0.78 inches (2 millimeters) long. Young butter fish often swim between tentacles of jellyfish for protection and sometimes up to 15 young are protected by a single jellyfish. They seem to have a natural immunity to toxin in jellyfish.

Butterfish has a rounded snout, large eyes and visible tail. Their dorsal and anal fins are almost the same lengths. On the same small, soft scale, which easily shed when it touches, and their meat has little bones.

also known as Escobar, Sheepshead and Dollarfish, butter fisherman as a food for human consumption and as a bait for larger fish. In the United States it has been commercially hunted since the 19th century. Fish were first used as fertilizer, dOkud people did not find out that it is good enough for food.

Its fat content causes the meat to be moist, tender and tasty. Fish can be purchased fresh, frozen or smoked. It can be baked, poisoned, grilled or fried in a pan. This fish is nutritious and tasty and provides vitamin B 6 , selenium, potassium and niacin.

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