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1, Yellow-lipped fish
Yellow-lipped fish, also known as money bream, money fierce fish, yellow sweet fish, etc., are carnivorous fish. Adult yellow-lip fish generally feed on small fish, shrimps, crabs and other large crustaceans. , young yellow-lip fish mainly feed on shrimps. Since the whole body of the yellow-lipped fish can be used as medicine, especially the isinglass (fish fat), it is known as "precious as gold".
Yellow-lip fish is mainly distributed in the waters of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong, the Zhoushan waters of Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang, and the Quanzhou Bay waters of the Minjiang estuary in Fujian. A few decades ago, the price of yellow-lip fish was the civilian price, but now, the yellow-lip fish It is listed as a national second-level protected wild animal and is an endangered species. Locals rarely see a few yellow-lip fish a year, and the price of a pound of yellow-lip fish has soared to tens of thousands of yuan. It is said that a Fujian fishing boat once caught a 122-pound yellow-lip fish in the waters of South Australia. After more than ten rounds of bidding, it was finally bought at a price of 28,500 yuan per catty. In this way, the price of this yellow-lip fish The price is 3,477,000 yuan, and many wealthy people said they couldn’t afford it.
2. Bluefin tuna
Bluefin tuna is called the "Rolls Royce" of the tuna world. is not only the best in the tuna world, but also the largest species in the tuna family. For anglers, bluefin tuna is incredibly beautiful. In terms of market demand, bluefin tuna can also be incredibly expensive.
Bluefin tuna is generally sold in four parts, namely belly, midriff, naked body and gills. The price of each part is naturally different. There is no doubt that the belly is the fattest part of the tuna and is suitable for cooking. As for sashimi, I once saw a report that one tael of bluefin tuna sashimi sold for a high price of 3,000 yuan. The melt-in-the-mouth texture of tuna makes it the most popular gourmet fish in Japan.
3. Wild Large Yellow Croaker
Large yellow croaker, also known as yellow croaker, cucumber , and golden dragon, is one of the traditional "four seafoods". This species is similar to small yellow croaker. Li Shizhen once recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Born in the southeast sea, it looks like a white fish, with a flat body and weak bones, thin scales as yellow as gold, and two white stones on the head, as clear as jade." .
Wild large yellow croaker generally weighs more than 2 pounds, and 1 catty costs about 1,500 yuan. This price is not fixed and often increases with market fluctuations. Especially the heavier the weight of the large yellow croaker, the higher the price. , it is common for large yellow croakers weighing more than 5 kilograms to be sold for tens of thousands of yuan. However, due to intensive fishing in the 1950s and 1960s, wild large yellow croaker is now listed in the "International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species" (IUCN 2016 ver 3.1) - Critically Endangered (CR).
4. Dali Schizothorax (Dali Bowfish )
Dali schizothorax is a unique economic fish in China. It is only distributed in the Yunnan Erhai Lake and its tributaries and the Lancang River water system. Because its mouth can jump out of the water with its tail attached, it looks like a bow, so it is named Dali bowfish. Schizothorax is small in size, weighing 2-4 taels each. The fish has thick and greasy meat, tender meat, and many seeds and few thorns. , extremely delicious.
In recent years, Erhai Lake has attracted many exotic fish species, causing Schizothorax to become an endangered species. In 1989, Dali Schizothorax was listed as a second-level protected animal in China. In 2002, it was listed in Yunnan Provincial Aquatic Wildlife Protection List". Therefore, the current Schizothorax can only be said to be priceless and unmarketable.
5. Long-jawed bream (Yangtze River saury)
Long-jawed bream has a flat and long body, resembling a handful of silver-white bamboo strips, so it is also called "Yangtze River saury". As the first of the "Three Delicacies of the Yangtze River", long-jawed bream can be sold for as high as 3,000-8,000 yuan per pound. It is truly in a state of price but no market. The reason is the intensification of pollution in the Yangtze River in recent years and the impact of overfishing. The annual production of long-jawed catfish has been declining year by year. From the initial fishing of several thousand tons a year, now only one can be caught a year. Expensive, the price will naturally increase several times.
6. Fuyuan catfish
Fuyuan catfish is a specialty product of Fuyuan City, Heilongjiang Province, and a national geographical indication of agricultural products. It is the oldest vertebrate in the world today, and was a species of the same period as the dinosaurs, dating back more than 100 million years. The meat of Fuyuan catfish is delicious, and the spine, nasal bones, etc. are all delicacies. Especially the " black caviar " made from fish eggs has a high economic value and is known as the "black pearl".
7. Songjiang Perch
Songjiang Perch is also known as Songjiang Perch and Wife Fish. Because there are two orange diagonal stripes on the gill membrane, which resemble two gill leaves, it is called "four-gill perch". Songjiang sea bass has been famous all over the world for nearly 2,000 years. The earliest record was in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where Cao Cao guests were having a banquet and felt regretful because there was no sea bass on the table.
Today, due to factors such as pollution caused by overfishing and the interruption of migration, the annual catch of sea bass is getting smaller and smaller. A fisherman in Busan, South Korea once caught a giant seabass about 170 centimeters long, which was finally sold for 1.7 million won (approximately RMB 10,000). All celebrities in the past who have tasted Songjiang seabass have spoken highly of it.
8. Qinghai Huangyu
"Huangyu" is a specialty of Qinghai Lake . Its scientific name is "Qinghai Lake naked carp". It is a national second-level protected animal and a rare species unique to Qinghai Lake. "There are fishes in the water, yellow in color and without scales." This is the earliest record of Huang fish. It is said that Huang fish grows extremely slowly and only grows one tael of flesh a year, so it is extremely precious.
In 2004, Huangyu was listed as an endangered species in the " Red List of Chinese Species ". Mainly due to changes in the Qinghai Lake environment and people's overfishing, Qinghai Lake has been closed five times just for fish breeding. Now that fishing of Huangyu has been banned, you can’t buy it even if you want to eat it.
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