Despite the notoriety however, many people in the Philippines continue to enjoy the fish cooked regularly or even raw using kalamansi juice or vinegar to make kinilaw na bangus. Because it is notorious for being much bonier than other food fish, deboned milkfish, called "boneless bangús" in the Philippines, has become popular in stores and markets. The milkfish is an important seafood in Southeast Asia and some Pacific Islands. Consumption Smoked milkfish, sold in Juanda International Airport, Surabaya. Females spawn at night up to 5 million eggs in saline shallow waters. The young fry live at sea for two to three weeks and then migrate during the juvenile stage to mangrove swamps, estuaries, and sometimes lakes, and return to sea to mature sexually and reproduce. They tend to school around coasts and islands with coral reefs.
These fishes generally feed on algae and small invertebrates. There are numerous fine intramuscular bones, which may complicate human consumption of the fish (see "Consumption" below). They have 13–17 dorsal soft rays, 8–10 anal soft rays and 31 caudal fin rays. The body is olive green, with silvery flanks and dark bordered fins. They have an elongated and almost compressed body, with a generally symmetrical and streamlined appearance, one dorsal fin, falcate pectoral fins and a sizable forked caudal fin. They can reach a weight of about 14 kg (31 lb). The milkfish can grow to 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in), but are most often no more than 1 m (39 in) in length. They also frequently enter estuaries and rivers. Milkfishes commonly live in tropical offshore marine waters around islands and along continental shelves, at depths of 1 to 30 m. A single specimen was reported in 2012 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Ĭhanos chanos occurs in the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean, from South Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas, from California to the Galapagos, north to Japan, south to Australia. Milkfish is also called bandeng or bolu in Indonesia. In the Nauruan language, it is referred to as ibiya. It is called bangús in the Philippines, where it is popularly known as the national fish, although the National Commission for Culture and the Arts has stated that this is not the case as it has no basis in Philippine law. The Hawaiian name for the fish is awa, and in Tahitian it is ava.
The repeating scientific name ( tautonym) is from Greek khanos ( χάνος ‘mouth’). However, there are at least five extinct genera from the Cretaceous. The milkfish ( Chanos chanos) is the sole living species in the family Chanidae. Lutodeira chloropterus (Valenciennes, 1847).
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