[CaptainK]

Hi Everyone,
I see this sold as frozen food. But I have no idea what a silverside is. Can anyone help?
Is it a good food source for ALL of our marine inhabitants?

THank,
CaptK

[cwa46]

I would like the same info if someone out there knows. Also, where can you get them?

[Reinhold]

Silversides are small schooling fish (Antherinidae) which form a food source for a large number of larger fish. They have a silver streak down their body.

I have no idea where you can buy them. They are not available to me up here.

[FishTechie]

This might help

silversides,
common name for small shore fishes, belonging to the family Antherinidae, abundant in the warmer waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, and named for the silvery stripe on either side of the body. Silversides, known commercially as whitebait, eat insects and small crustaceans. The small (3 in./7.5 cm) tidewater silversides, Menidia menidia, is found along the Atlantic coast; the similar brook silversides is a freshwater species. Larger and better known is the California grunion (5-8 in./12.5-20 cm), which rides in on high tides to lay its eggs in the sand. Beached grunions are collected by hand in large quantities. Other Pacific silversides are the top smelts and jack smelts, important to California's smelt fisheries. The mullets (family Mugilidae), blunt-nosed warm-water fishes of both oceans, are closely related to the silversides. Small schools of mullets frequent shallow waters, feeding on aquatic plants and on mud, which is ground up in the gizzardlike stomach. The striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, is quite common, a bluish fish that attains a weight of 1 lb (0.45 kg). Mullets are good food fish and are preyed upon heavily by larger carnivorous fishes. Silversides and mullets are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Perciformes, families Antherinidae and Mugilidae, respectively.


i get them at any lfs here

[icemark]

Cool, FishTechie!

Thats what I thought, but its always good to get the full thing.

[RudeBoy]

You can buy them frozen at Petco, but, that's about the only thing I'd buy from there. That place sucks!