#amberjack

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Ningyohime no Gomen ne Gohan / The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal

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Daily fish fact #610

Greater amberjack!

They live near reefs, shipwrecks and underwater caves and drop-offs, in small groups or alone. It is estimated they can live up to 17 years.

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Day 2 of humbly requesting a fish mr fish provider 🙏

Your patience shall be rewarded

You get a Yellowtail Amberjack

Seriola lalandi

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[You got some cobias, amberjack, and mahi-mahi. It’s all right now, Martin Cunningham said? This is the brine for the smoked fish.]

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Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #165

Brought to you by a marine biologist fascinated with fish-farming...

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Maybe one day we’ll be teaching our kids what the fish and oysters say along with the cows on ol’ McDonald’s farm. Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species, is a quickly-growing industry. As natural resources are stretched incredibly thin, cultivating our own seafood has brought with it all of the positives and negatives we’ve already seen with terrestrial farming. It’s like, we just can’t be proactive about anything, I swear. Sometimes, like is the lesson of farming big predatory fish like today’s Amberjack, ya can’t always get what ya want.

Another Pocket Camp friendo, and this one doesn’t decide to fuck off after three days in 2019 never to be seen again. Nope, this one’s been available every winter since 2020, and still is available right now at Saltwater Shores (I say, in February 2022). 

Amberjacks are one of those fish that arrived at the same, predatory, fusiform-body niche as tuna, but they aren’t tuna. It just so happens that being shaped like a torpedo does wonders for reducing drag and making you really hydrodynamic. If you’re a predator in the open ocean actively chasing your prey, this is just the shape you will end up being. Amberjacks are part of the Family Carangidae, which includes the Giant Trevally from ACNH, among other big fast fish. Amberjacks in particular are in Genus Seriola, of which there are 9 species with a mostly circumglobal distribution in near-shore habitats. Today’s Amberjack is specifically the Japanese Amberjack, Seriola quinqueradiata. 

Picture from here.

This fish is native to the Northwest Pacific around Japan and Korea. Young amberjacks are very reliant on floating debris and seaweed, which become kind of like their home-base as they grow up. Adults return to more in-shore areas to spawn, so makes sense you catch the adults in Pocket Camp. The adults are called Buri in Japanese, which is what this fish is called in AC Pocket Camp, so it all tracks.

The Japanese Amberjack is prized in Japan for its meat, which is often served raw in sushi or as sashimi. Like many sought-after fish, aquaculture is a major way in which this fish makes it to grocery stores and restaurant menus. However, not all aquaculture is built the same. For some animals, like the pearl oyster, aquaculture is a net positive - shellfish feed on algae, so feeding them is often passive while the shellfish themselves introduce a source of water-cycling as they filter the water at all hours of the day. Shellfish farms often translate into healthier shores and lowered pressure on their wild counterparts. For fish, none of that really happens, especially for big predators that we just so happen to eat the most (tuna, salmon, and this here amberjack). These fish eat other fish, so other what happens is that tons of wild fish are still caught to feed farmed fish, which...kind of defeats the purpose of farming in the first place. Not only that. but with Japanese Amberjack in particular, young fish are caught from the wild and placed in aquaculture pens, which can negatively affect the wild populations of this species. So far, the Japanese Amberjack is considered least concern, but for a farmed fish, it’s incredibly reliant on wild capture anyway, a fact that is slowly becoming a bane for it as feed-fish stocks decline. 

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

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Blackened amberjack or "catch of the day" 🎣 with cheddar biscuits @seafoodsallys. . . #canyoutellilikedthebiscuits #seafoodsallys #amberjack #blackened #nola #nolafood #nolafoodporn #foodporn #louisianaseafood #cheddarbiscuits (at Seafood Sally's) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtHTZhlxVR/?utm_medium=tumblr