Sweet Or Salty..what Are The Best Aquatic Foods
Sweetwater Foods
Sweetwater foods mean simply the sweet water fishes, crabs & some foods nowadays available for phytoplankton group. As per studies & nature availability, there are 940 fishes are available in this group found from rivers, lakes, and estuaries.
There are varieties of fishes like:-
- Rui – Rohu – This is is simple freshwater fish can eat all types of patients including who are under the hospital treatment
- Koi(climbing perch)- This type of fishes are tasty, delicious after cooking with mustard in Bengali families. Although, the local fishes are somehow costly & not available throughout all the season.
- Tilapia(Oreochromis niloticus), – This is one of the cheap & best fish not only in W est Bengal but all the coastal people including Bangladesh.
- Bhetki(Barramundi) – This is somehow a costly type but very tasty & special dishes prepared for the marriage ceremony or other occasions with special type pakora.
- Catla(Catla Catla) – After Rui, this is the most popular & demanding fish with large serving size used for daily or occasional times.
- Mostly, must say about the Hilsha which the famous & celebrity fish during the monsoon including West Bengal, Bangla Desh & eastern parts of entire India.
Salty water Foods
Salty fishes signifies marine or seafood like
- Group -1 -Molluscs
- Group- II – crustaceans
- Group – III – echinoderms
- Some seafood groups are crap tilapia catfish and trout
a) These are the popular fishes with maximum nutrient values –
- Shark – This is not only fish but used as shark liver oil
- Tuna – This is nigh protein rich foods with maximum minerals.
- Salmon – This as same as tuna with the high level of DHA & Omega -3,6,9 fatty acids which are high antioxidants.
There are three main groups:
a) Marine Pelagic – These fishes live under water column of the sea.
b) Marine demersal – These foods live under & bottom of the sea. Some seafood groups record types, flatfish and
c) Diadromous fishes are fishes which migrate between the sea and freshwater |