Osmeridae

wakasagi

Hypomesus nipponensis

Osmerid Fish at the River Sea Edge

Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. It has been introduced in other locations, including the San Francisco Delta of the United States. It is raised in fisheries, and is very similar in appearance to the delta smelt (H. transpacificus).