Anchovies as food Anchovies as food Anchovies are a family (Engraulidae) of small, common salt-water forage fish. There are 144 species in 17 genera, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Anchovies are usually classified as an oily fish. They are small, green fish with blue reflections due to a silver longitudinal stripe that runs from the base of the caudal fin. They range from to in adult length, and the body shape is variable with more slender fish in northern populations. A traditional method of processing and preserving anchovies is to gut and salt them in brine, allow them to mature,
Indo-Pacific blue marlin Indo-Pacific blue marlin The Indo-Pacific blue marlin ("Makaira mazara") is a species of marlin belonging to the family Istiophoridae. In Hawaii, the fish is known as "a'u". In the Pacific, blue marlin (then known as silver marlin or often misidentified as the related black marlin) were caught by author/angler Zane Grey in Tahiti in the 1930s. "Makaira mazara" is closely related to, and usually considered conspecific with, the Atlantic blue marlin, then simply called blue marlin. The classification of the Indo-Pacific blue marlin ("M. mazara") and the Atlantic blue marlin ("M. nigricans") as separate species is under debate. Genetic data