Sea fish barracuda is very similar to pike. Her body resembles a long cylinder, covered with shallow scales. A slightly pointed head with strong teeth and front canine teeth also looks like a pike's head. You can distinguish barracuda from a strong dorsal fin decorated with five "rays" and well developed lateral. The sphirena (also called this fish) is appreciated in some countries for very tasty meat. However, few people know that not every barracuda is edible. Fish can cause severe, sluggish, but incurable poisoning. Ciguatera (poisoning) begins with severe muscle pain. Later they are joined by ulcers on the skin, the work of the nervous system is disrupted. The disease gives so many symptoms that not every doctor can correctly diagnose. Often the siguateur ends with the death of the patient. However, not all types of barracudas are poisonous. Altogether there are from 20 to 26 species of these cephalic predators. This is a large barracuda, silvery, Japanese, yellow-tailed, striped, tupory, red, Australian and others.
Such different barracudas
All species of barracuda live only in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Ideal conditions for them - the subtropical climate. Near the coast of Central America is the Great Barracuda. The fish eats meat from puffers living among the corals. Poisonous substances accumulate in its fins, and the sphirene becomes poisonous. This she calls the ciguatera. True, some sources assure that a large barracuda feeds on tuna only and sometimes even attacks bathers. A giant is often mistaken for a shark. Individuals of the Great Barracuda grow to 300 cm. But because of their venomousness, they are not very interested in fishermen. On the coast of Japan, in East Africa , another barracuda occurs. Fish (striped) is small - only up to 60 cm, but very tasty. It is highly regarded by the Japanese. Near Mexico and Southern California, many representatives of the species "silver barracuda". This fish is the basis of fishing in San Diego and Los Angeles. In the Black Sea from the Mediterranean sometimes come oblong individuals with silvery-gray sides, greenish back, dark stripes along the body and a head remotely similar to a pike. This is also a barracuda. Fish (sphirena finely scales) live in shallow depths, differ in predatory temper, like all its relatives. Sefirot can wait for a victim in thickets or among stones, or they can attack small anchovies or the like in small flocks and persecute them for a long time. At the same time, barracuda rarely gather in large flocks. Even in the Gulf of Guinea, where there are a lot of predators, they are rarely mined by trawls, but often by hooks. Meat barracuda - one of the favorites in Africa. Four species of Sefirot are found in the Mediterranean, eight in the Red Sea. In the Black Sea, fish from time to time swim from the Mediterranean.
How useful barracuda
Juicy meat loses only a fifth of the water while cooking, and fat is almost all. Fragrant fish replenishes the body with polyunsaturated acids and antioxidants, dissolves cholesterol, improves coagulation, normalizes vision.