Show long name small fish the smallest animal in the world is a fish it was discovered in buhl a mountain lake in the island of luzon in the philippines the tiny creature has two names out of all pro portion to s s ze the one given it by the natives is sina and doubt less has some significance in the lan guage of the bacols the natives living in the lake region the scientific name Is Luzone and means the smallest fish inhabiting lu zon the largest of the species measures but half an inch in length and the smallest not more than one fifth of an inch it would take about of them to weigh a pound fortunately for the fishmonger of luzon the sina Is not sold by the dozen or even by the hundred they are meas ared by the quart small as the fish is it forms an am food staple even in a country so rich in these products the ap bearance pe arance of the native fish dealer with his basket of sina is hailed with delight by the soldiers as well as the filipinos no net Is fine enough no hook is small enough to catch these fish the natives have solved the problem by using a finely woven cloth as a net and in this way gather in thousands at one swoop when pre paring them to eat they are first drained in a basket next they are mixed with pepper and other spices made into cakes and laid upon leaves in the sun where they soon dr then they are ready to be eaten the natives count them a great dell cacy and say that they possess a flavor quite their own and very dis tive they are never cooked as this seems to dry up all the goodness in them and deprives them of their flavor leaving them tasteless and un palatable london mall |