The silver-stripe round herring, slender sprat, or Kibinago minnow is a small, herring-like forage fish. They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait.
  • Sashimi of kibinago (silver-stripe round herring)
  • Kibinago sashimi with chopsticks
  • Grilled kibinago

Categories: Fish
Also known as:
English: Banded blue-sprat
Japanese: バカジャコ黍魚子キビナゴ
Japanese (Romanized): bakajakokibinago
Latin species name: Spratelloides gracilis
Wikidata ID: Q3236464
Wikipedia title: Silver-stripe round herring
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