My Deep-sea Fishery

Yellow croaker is a seafood with delicious soft and tender meat.

Almost all the yellow croakers seen on the market today are aquaculture products.

The story about wild large yellow croaker can be regarded as a history of ups and downs.

In terms of distribution, large yellow croakers are distributed throughout the coastal areas of my country. In addition to the Korean Peninsula and the east and south, there are also a certain number of distributions.

It is a pity that the area where the large yellow croaker lives can be said to be approaching the 21st century, one of the areas with the fastest economic development in the world.

Therefore, like all fish living here, environmental pollution and overfishing are like sharp knives, holding wild large yellow croakers in the water for friction.

For the large yellow croaker, which is already in critical condition, it is very difficult to protect it.

In terms of living habits, large yellow croaker is a migratory brackish freshwater fish.

The habitat of wild large yellow croaker is mainly the middle and bottom waters of coastal and estuary areas, where it preys on crustaceans and small fishes.

The habitat distribution of yellow croaker can be said to be very vulnerable to the impact of coastal sewage discharge.

At the same time, there has been a very serious overfishing phenomenon in my country's coastal areas, resulting in a lack of fishery resources, which also makes it difficult for wild large yellow croakers to find enough food.

However, for wild large yellow croakers, there is another huge threat that humans may not be aware of at all, and that is the sound produced by humans.

Sound is even more harmful to wild large yellow croakers than environmental pollution.

In terms of classification, large yellow croakers belong to the crocodile family. A major feature of this fish family is that their heads have crocodile stones that are used to perceive sound.

Although this structure plays an important role in finding prey and avoiding predators in the wild, it inevitably makes them one of the biggest victims of human noise pollution in modern times.

Whether it is the loud noises caused by various ships running or offshore engineering construction, it will have a great impact on the members of the Totoaba family, including the large yellow croaker, and may even be directly stunned or killed.

In addition to environmental problems and various bycatch, large yellow croakers are also facing a serious problem, that is, people's "protection".

In many coastal areas, in order to ensure the sustainable development of the fishery and what they believe to be the reproduction of the population, a large number of large yellow croakers are released into the wild.

This kind of behavior can be said to be the same as the so-called meritorious release of animals by some groups. Not only will it not serve the purpose of protecting wild populations, but it will even bring them a huge crisis.

Due to long-term inbreeding, artificially bred large yellow croakers generally suffer from serious deformities, and because they have been grown in an artificial breeding environment for several generations, their immunity is also much lower than that of wild populations.

After these artificially bred large yellow croakers are released into the wild, they will not only have an irreversible negative impact on the genes of wild large yellow croakers, but also bring many diseases to the wild population, thus further deteriorating the wild large yellow croaker population. and genetic decline.

It can be said that even today, although people's awareness of the protection of the environment and animals is constantly increasing, there are still no effective protection measures or even plans for the wild population of large yellow croakers.

For the protection of the large yellow croaker, even biologists can only hope that this beautiful fish will not disappear from the sea forever. There may be many people who agree with environmental governance and environmental protection, but there is absolutely no money to support the noise at sea governance.

However, with the continuous improvement of breeding technology, it is impossible for large yellow croakers to become extinct. At most, at least the number of large yellow croakers in the wild is decreasing.

However, farmed large yellow croakers are quite different from wild large yellow croakers.

In Yuan Mei's famous "Suiyuan Food List", there is a statement, "Mostly yellow croaker is also a thick thing, and it cannot be cured." For cooking, the yellow croaker here refers to wild large yellow croaker.

Fish has a special status in Chinese New Year dishes.

The so-called no fish can't make a banquet, in addition to the mouth color that is surplus every year, the fish itself represents a kind of delicacy.

From the regret of "you can't have both fish and bear's paw", it can be seen that fish is a very rare delicacy for non-origin countries.

my country's cultured fish has a very long history.

The earliest paddy field fish farming began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and herring, grass carp, silver carp, and bighead carp farming began in the Tang Dynasty.

However, the four major family carps that enter the pond have not "born children" for thousands of years, because they have to migrate regularly in natural water bodies for thousands of years to complete sexual maturity and spawning.

Fish farming in ponds has always relied on catching fry in the natural environment, and the scale of production is doomed to be limited.

It was not until the 1950s that technological breakthroughs were realized one after another, and the fry of the four major carps were successfully artificially propagated, and the artificial fish breeding technology achieved a qualitative leap.

Large yellow croaker used to be the national fish of our country. It was a common dish of people on the seaside, and it was once a delicious childhood memory of many urban residents in the inland.

The scene of thousands of sails competing to catch large yellow croakers in the Zhoushan fishing ground was much more spectacular than the winter fishing in Chagan Lake shown in today's documentary.

For diners, the biggest feature of wild large yellow croaker is the garlic clove meat.

Garlic meat is a description of the meat quality of fish.

Only white and tender fish with almost no thorns, and the flesh is as complete as a garlic clove is called garlic clove meat.

Large yellow croaker is a typical representative of garlic clove meat.

There are only a handful of fish with garlic cloves, and fish with beautiful garlic cloves like wild large yellow croaker is simply a godsend.

In the coastal areas of my country, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, large yellow croaker was an indispensable part of local food culture in the early years.

In Ningbo, which has a long history of traditional fishing grounds, large yellow croakers play a central role in the local diet.

Among the top ten famous dishes in Ningbo with slightly different versions, yellow croaker-related dishes generally account for 4 types, such as yellow croaker with moss and vegetables, yellow croaker with fish maw, whole yellow croaker with casserole, yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin, etc.

Although these famous dishes are still available today, they are no longer the wild large yellow croakers in the past.

The history of preying on wild large yellow croakers in my country can be traced back to the ancient times two or three thousand years ago.

According to the famous early local chronicles, "Wu Diji" written by Lu Guangwei in the Tang Dynasty, in the tenth year of Helu (505 BC), large yellow croakers had been fished along the coast of eastern Zhejiang.

It is recorded in "Huayi Flowers, Trees, Birds and Beasts" in the Ming Dynasty that "the stone head fish, the people of Haijun sent huge ships to Yangshan to compete for it, and there were tides and floods, so it was called Yangshan fish."

However, it is not the food culture that has been passed down for thousands of years that really makes the name of large yellow croaker resound in thousands of households. After all, the history of supplying large yellow croaker to the mainland is not long.

The real reason why the name of large yellow croaker has spread all over the country is closely related to the life of people on the seashore.

In the old sayings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a three-wheeled truck is called a "yellow croaker", gold bars are also called yellow croakers, 10-two-weight ones are called large yellow croakers, and one-two-weight ones are called small yellow croakers.鲞 means dried large yellow croaker.