Anchovidae? Big-eyed dragon Skipjack tuna

What is the picture below? ? Phoenix? The common names are anchovies, fried seed fish, seed fish, seed fish and mackerel.

The head is short, the kiss is short and round. Big mouth, low position. The crack in the mouth is oblique. The maxilla extends backward to or beyond the base of pectoral fin. The lower edge is serrated. Both jaws have a row of villous teeth, and both vomerous and palatal bones have fine teeth. The body is elongated, extremely flat, Maebetaka, gradually lowered backwards, showing a sharp knife shape. The base of dorsal fin is convex in front, and inclines downward to the head and tail. The back edge is wider than the belly edge, and the belly edge is wide, curved and narrow. The head is slightly small and flat, and the snout is pointed. Mouth is big, down and slightly inclined. The maxilla is longer than the mandible, and the posterior edge of the maxilla exceeds the branchial foramen. The teeth in both jaws are very small. The pectoral fin is small, with 6 long filiform free fins on the lower side and above, and the tip reaches or slightly exceeds the starting point of the gluteal fin. The ventral fin is short and the starting point is below the starting point of the dorsal fin. The base of the gluteal fin is very long, starting from the tip of the pectoral fin or slightly lower than the front, and the trailing edge is connected with the caudal fin, within 90 fins. The caudal fin is very short and there is no lateral line on it. The back of the body is grayish yellow, and the side abdomen is silvery white. Dorsal fin, gluteal fin and caudal fin are light gray, while pectoral fin and ventral fin are white. The body length is generally 15 ~ 20cm.

It belongs to estuarine migratory fish and usually lives in shallow water. Every spring, a large number of fish migrate from the sea to the brackish fresh water area of the estuary to lay eggs. Generally, in late April (around Grain Rain), parent fish began to come to the estuary from the sea, but the number was small; From early May (long summer) to early July (small hall), they come in large numbers, lay eggs in salty and fresh water areas and return to live in the sea one after another. Coilia mystus rarely eats when it migrates to the estuary to lay eggs. Its food is copepods, mysids, crustaceans, oysters and fish eggs.

There are many seeds in the abdomen, tender meat, high protein, high fat and rich in phosphoric acid. Dried roe is also called Jinyinchun or Jinyinchun roe. People fry and eat, don't scrape scales, don't cut their bellies, just take out their internal organs from their mouths. After frying, the fish bones are crisp and the whole fish can be eaten in the mouth. It is a good food for table wine in summer.