The Yangtze saury is known as "the most fresh fish in the Yangtze River". It is said that it has been sold for tens of thousands of yuan per catty in the past two years. In the aquatic product market before Qingming Festival this year, saury with good quality was very expensive.
Why is Yangtze saury so expensive? Because there are fewer and fewer! A fisherman in his 60s said that when he was a child, a small wooden boat could catch dozens of kilograms of saury in a day. At that time, no one would buy it for a few cents per kilogram. They could not afford the meat, so they used saury as a meal. vegetable. But now, the number of saury in the Yangtze River has dropped sharply, and fishermen like him can no longer afford it.
Swordfish is also called swordfish. A fish weighing two or two ounces is considered medium-sized, and a fish weighing three or four ounces is considered relatively large. Every year in February and March, saury swims from the sea to the Yangtze River to lay eggs. When the young saury grow up, they swim back to the sea. The swordfish has a fierce temper and will die within a few seconds of being out of the water. This is one reason why many diners think saury tastes good, but it also makes it difficult to simulate the breeding environment of saury.
Many institutions have spent efforts on artificial breeding of saury. For example, the Shanghai Fisheries Research Institute’s “Research and Application of Key Technologies for Total Artificial Breeding and Germplasm Identification of Yangtze River Daphne” won the first prize of Shanghai Technical Invention Award in 2016; the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences also won many awards. National patent related to saury fish breeding.
In the past two years, there have been rumors about a complete ban on fishing of saury in the Yangtze River. At the same time, ecological restoration work is underway on the knifefish habitat. I hope that this kind of ecological restoration will be effective, and that there will be more wild Yangtze saury.
There are fewer and fewer wild swordfish now, for many reasons. First of all, I hope everyone will not fish indiscriminately, but must protect the environment and ensure that our Yangtze River tax is pollution-free.
In the late 1990s, a hotel selling swordfish sold 5,000 kilograms a year, and now it is almost extinct. However, to this day, several hundred kilograms are still produced every spring. However, even the locals rarely get saury. No one comes to buy it. Those who catch saury can no longer sell it. There is no market and it is out of circulation. In recent years, I have been able to eat Yellow River saury every year. It’s great that Yangtze saury fish farming has been successful.
In order to pursue the economy, people have destroyed the ecology. Protecting the Yangtze River, protecting fish populations, and protecting the ecology means protecting our lives.