Fish

North Sea Sprat

A tier

North Sea sprat denotes Sprattus sprattus from North Sea fisheries used for human food and historically for meal—when destined for the table, they fry and smoke with classic sprat richness. Slightly different seasonal patterns from Baltic fish but the same species. Flash-fry whole or seek smoked packs from North Sea smokehouses. Label provenance if you care about stock units. A sound small oily fish when human-food grade rather than reduced entirely to feed.