Anchovies, commonly known as "Coilia ectenes" and scientifically known as "Coilia ectenes", are valuable economic fish, so they are called anchovies because their tails are forked like phoenix's, short and red, slender and narrow, like anchovies. Anchovies are small migratory fish that usually live in the open sea. Every year in late spring and early summer, they flock into the river and lay eggs at the fresh water entrance of the middle and lower reaches.

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Anchovies are small migratory fish that usually live in the open sea. Every year in late spring and early summer, they flock into the river and lay eggs at the fresh water entrance of the middle and lower reaches. It is distributed near the estuaries of major coastal rivers in China, with Tianjin Haihe River, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Estuary as the most. The spawning period is from April to August, and the quality of anchovies in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the best before Qingming.

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