Anchovy Fun Facts: Anchovies are a family (Engraulidae) of small, common salt-water forage fish.
- There are 144 species in 17 genera, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
- November 12th is National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day.
- The anchovy fishing period goes from March to September. The best bait to lure them to the surface is crab paste.
- Fisherman prefer to fish anchovies on nights with a full moon: with their silvery body they shine in the water under the moonlight.
- The traditional method of processing and preserving anchovies is to gut and salt them in brine, allow them to mature, and then pack them in oil or salt.
- Anchovies can concentrate domoic acid which causes amnesic shellfish poisoning in humans when eaten whole.
- To select the freshest anchovies look carefully at their eyes which should be bright and protruding, with an iris that is black and not reddened.
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