About Round Scad Fish

Balang is a percoid Caranx family Caranx fish, also known as blue Caranx, stick fish, anchovy goo. The body is slightly flattened and fusiform; The head is slightly conical, and there is a half-moon shaped black spot at the junction between the upper corner of the back of the gill cover and the shoulder strap. Body is small round scale; The lateral line is complete, and the curved part is equal to or slightly longer than the straight part; Pectoral fins long apical, falciform; The anal fin is opposite to the second dorsal fin and has the same shape, with two free short spines in front; The second dorsal fin and anal fin each have a small fin; The caudal fin is forked. The back of the body is bluish-gray, and the belly is silver-white.
Balang is distributed in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and it is distributed in the coastal areas of China. Warm water pelagic fishes. It has a diurnal vertical movement habit. There is weak phototaxis at night. Euryphagous, mainly feed on krill, copepods, amphipods, ostracoids and other zooplankton and small fish. 1 age sexual maturity. It is a fish that ovulates at one time and has the characteristics of spawning in groups. The spawning period lasts from winter to early autumn of the following year for more than 10 months, with the peak spawning period from February to April. The spawning period is different in different sea areas. The individual absolute fecundity was 25,200 to 218,800, with an average of 89,200.
Balang is a common economic fish, and the meat can be used as medicine, which has the effect of invigorating spleen and supplementing qi, digestion and accumulation. Fish sauce for hemoptysis, dysentery, dysentery, diarrhea, corns; Whole fish resole.