Silver-stripe round herring

The silver-stripe round herring, slender sprat, or Kibinago minnow (Spratelloides gracilis) is a small, herring-like forage fish.^[2] 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.^[3]

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  Sashimi of kibinago (silver-stripe round herring)
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  Kibinago sashimi with chopsticks
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  Grilled kibinago

Silver-stripe round herring
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Spratelloididae
Genus:	Spratelloides
Species:	S. gracilis
Binomial name
Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)