Why choose Ocean King® Portuguese Sardines?
- Ocean King® Portuguese Sardines are a superior tasting product for meals and light snacks
- The health benefits of sardines are legendary
- Ocean King® Portuguese Sardines are high in protein and low in fat
- Ocean King® Portuguese Sardines are a source of essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals such as, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and vitamins A, B6, B12, D, E and K
Ocean King® Sardine species
Portuguese Sardines (Sardina pilchardus).
Portuguese sardines are considered the sweetest and most succulent in the world.
Supplied by Portugal’s premier canned fish producer, all our sardines are caught in locally owned boats close to the Portuguese coast where the canning factories are located.
The sardines are lifted by hand from the nets and into the boats, then iced to ensure they arrive at shore in excellent condition. Add to this the levels of automation and hand finishing in the factories and you have a consistently top quality product that is in the can within hours of being fished from the sea.
Ocean King Portuguese Sardines are available in the following
six variants:
- Portuguese Sardines in Olive Oil
- Portuguese Sardines in Sunflower Oil
- Portuguese Sardines in Sunflower Oil with Chilli
- Boneless and Skinless Portuguese Sardines in Sunflower Oil
- Portuguese Sardines in Tomato
- Portuguese Sardines in Salt Water
A NATURAL PHENOMENON…
The Sardine Run
The Sardine Run occurs between May and July when millions of sardines spawn in the cool waters of the Agulhas Bank and move northward along the east coast of South Africa. Their sheer numbers create a feeding frenzy along the coastline.
The shoals are often more than 7 km long, 1.5 km wide and 30 meters deep and are clearly visible from spotter planes or from the surface.
Sardines group together when they are threatened. This instinctual behaviour is a defense mechanism as individuals are more likely to be eaten than large groups. These bait balls can be 10-20 metres in diameter and extend to a depth of 10 metres. The bait balls are short lived and seldom last longer than 10 minutes.
Dolphins (estimated as being up to 18,000 in number, mostly the common dolphin but also the bottlenose dolphin) are largely responsible for rounding up the sardines into bait balls.
Once the sardines are rounded up, sharks (primarily the bronze whaler, but also dusky shark, blacktip shark, spinner shark and zambezi shark), game fish (like shad or elf, king mackerel, various kingfish species, garrick, geelbek and eastern little tuna) and birds (like the Cape gannet, cormorants, terns and gulls) take advantage of the opportunity.
Source – wikipedia.com
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