Sentence examples for smaller sprats from inspiring English sources
One of the smaller sprats (Sprattus sprattus phalericus), with a maximum size of 8 cm (about 3 inches), produces about 2,000 eggs; one of the biggest shads, Alosa kessleri kessleri, can produce more than 300,000 eggs; and menhaden (several species of Brevoortia) produce more than 500,000.
This lovely fella is essentially a potato gratin, topped with crispy breadcrumbs, soft on the inside and spiced up with small pickled sprats to add an amazing and almost undefinable sweet saltiness to the dish.
In the Atlantic, more than half the food items are zooplankton and the fish caught include small herring and sprats; whale carcasses are scavenged where available.
Most of the catch consists of herring, cod, and sprats followed by smaller quantities of eel, salmon, and shellfish.
If small pieces of bait such as small fish (e.g. sardines or sprats) or chicken heads are used as bait, they should be placed in a bait container made from wire, plastic or synthetic netting to hold them together and in place.
Sometimes the little tin contains Norwegian "anchovies," which are sprats.
Layer onions, potatoes and finely chopped sprats in a large buttered oven dish (or in several smaller ones like in the picture above).
The biomass of fish in the Baltic is dominated by a much smaller number of species (i.e. three species: cod [Gadus morhua], herring [Clupea harengus], and sprat [Sprattus sprattus]).
They catch sprats in a net.
