{"id":18778,"date":"2023-12-30T04:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:32:09","slug":"sardine-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sardine-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Sardine run"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sardine run<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoals of the marine species are fluttering in shallow waters along the coast at Keri-Terekhol, about 40 km from Panaji.<\/li>\n<li>Reason: This marine event is \u201cvery rare\u201d and it usually happens due to\u00a0sudden changes in the temperature of sea surface water where sardines live.<\/li>\n<li>A drop or rise in sea surface temperature can induce migration of sardines in higher numbers and sometimes they get trapped in shallow waters\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Sardine fish<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It belongs to the herring family, Clupeidae.<\/li>\n<li>The name sardine can also refer to the common herring (Clupea harengus) and to other small herrings or herringlike fishes when canned in oil.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0They are found in\u00a0saltwater oceans, seas, and other bodies of water throughout the world.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: Found all over the world from the\u00a0North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the waters around South America.<\/li>\n<li>These are small, silvery, elongated fishes with a\u00a0single short dorsal fin, no lateral line, and no scales on the head.<\/li>\n<li>They migrate along the coast and feed on plankton.<\/li>\n<li>It is an excellent source of\u00a0omega-3 fatty acids, which promote heart health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are omega-3 fatty acids?<\/h3>\n<p>Omega-3 fatty acids (omega-3s) are polyunsaturated fats that perform important functions in your body. Your body can\u2019t produce the amount of omega-3s you need to survive. So, omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients, meaning you need to get them from the foods you eat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/sardine-fish-goa-beach-expert-rare-event-9086540\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Thousands of sardine fish surface near Goa beach, experts call it \u2018rare\u2019 event<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sardine run usually happens due to sudden changes in the temperature of sea surface water where sardines live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}