Baltic sprat

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Baltic sprat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
Genus: Sprattus
Species: S. sprattus balticus
Trinomial name
Sprattus sprattus balticus
(Schneider, 1908)

The Baltic sprat, Sprattus sprattus balticus is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found near the surface in the temperate northeast Atlantic Ocean in southern Skagerrak and Mecklenburg and Kiel Bays to Kvarken in the Gulf of Bothnia and to Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. Its length is up to 16 cm.

In the Gulf of Finland the Baltic sprat's eggs develop pelagically and do not descend to the bottom. Spawning occurs far from shore, from the end of May until the beginning of August.

Canned sprats are an important Latvian export.

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