Sweet Or Salty..what Are The Best Aquatic Foods

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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