Habitat: Demersal Main role: Prey Trophic level: 3 – 3,5
Diet: Their diet is dominated by zooplankton, but polychaetes, meiofauna and other small benthos have also an important role.
Threats: Of commercial interest. They are caught in large quantities by specialized industrial fisheries.
Habitat: Pelagic Main role: Prey Trophic level: 3
Diet: zooplankton.
Threats: Highly commercial. Sprats are caught by various trawl gear and seine nets, and are often preserved by smoking. Juvenile sprats are marketed as whitebait. However, the larger part of the international catch is used in the fishmeal industry.
Sandeel and sprat are part of one single data layer. This is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).
Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.
Sandeel and sprat are caught by all fishing fleets, but mostly by industrial and pelagic trawl.
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