Clupeidae

sprat

Sprattus sprattus

Clupeid Fish of African Waters

• Temperate
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Medium
• Temperate fish

The European sprat (Sprattus sprattus), also known as the Baltic herring, brisling, brisling sardine, bristling, garvie, garvock, Russian sardine, russlet, skipper or whitebait, is a species of small marine fish in the herring family Clupeidae. It is found in European, West Asian and North African waters. The fish is the subject of fisheries, particularly in Scandinavia, and is made into fish meal, as well as being used for human consumption.