China has two long rivers, meandering in the vast land, one is a total length of 6387 kilometers of the Yangtze River, the other is a total length of 5464 kilometers of the Yellow River, as we all know, there are a variety of large fish in the Yangtze River, Chinese sturgeon, finless porpoise, Dashi squid, these ancient fish normal weight are more than 100 pounds, even up to 1000 kg.
Are the fish in the Yangtze River terrifying? So is there a fish in the Yellow River, which is second only to the Yangtze River in length, and how big is the largest fish? Let's explore the second longest river in China, originating in the Bayankara Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passing through Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and finally flowing into the Bohai Sea.
The Yellow River is known as China's "mother river", is the birthplace of the Yellow River culture, but the Yellow River water is really very turbid, seeped with a lot of yellow soil, there was once a "bowl of water and half a bowl of sand" saying, although this statement is somewhat exaggerated, but it shows a fact phenomenon, the Yellow River water is turbid like this, so are there fish in the Yellow River to survive?
The answer is yes, of course, there are fish in the Yellow River, we know that there are close to 400 species of fish in the Yangtze River, the variety can be said to be very rich, although the fish species in the Yellow River are not as many as the Yangtze River, but there are also more than 120 kinds, the largest fish in the Yangtze River is close to 1000 kg, so how big can the largest fish in the Yellow River be?
There are rumors that the largest fish in the Yellow River can grow to 300 pounds, but there is no real data and photos, if we want to know how big the largest fish in the Yellow River can be, we must first know what fish are in the Yellow River? Because the variety of fish determines the size of the fish, no matter how a crucian carp grows, it is impossible to grow to more than 300 pounds, and genes determine everything.
There are 98 species of pure freshwater fish in the Yellow River Basin, such as carp, crucian carp, pigeon fish, Yellow River catfish, Yellow River naked cracked cormorant, Wastello, copper fish, Yellow River catfish, bluefish, etc., which can also be regarded as somewhat abundant, of which large fish are, Yellow River carp, bluefish, Yellow River catfish, these fish can grow at least to dozens of kilograms.
Yellow River carp is one of the economic fish in the Yellow River Basin, the meat is tender, fat, nutritious, compared with the carp in the Yangtze River, the taste is really different, two words to describe, "delicious", it is said that because the Yellow River carp lives in turbid water, the body inhaled the minerals in the loess, the nutritional value is richer than the river carp.
So how big can the Yellow River carp grow at its maximum? Yellow River carp belongs to the Asian carp, in general, the average length of the Asian carp after adulthood is about 40 cm, the weight is about 5 to 6 kg, but the largest Asian carp can be more than one meter long and weigh more than 25 kg, in October 2020, The Maintenance Worker of Cambridgeshire, England, Van Mansford, caught a 68 kg major carp, breaking the world record.
So is there such a big carp in the Yellow River? It's hard to say that in 2005, Feng Mingliang, a resident of Wuzhi County in Henan Province, caught a large carp from the Yellow River weighing more than 13 kilograms, which is already very rare.
There are also large fish in the Yellow River, bluefish is the most willing to grow a kind of freshwater fish, belongs to one of the "national freshwater fish", compared with carp, bluefish is still larger, in general, adult bluefish body length of about 1 meter, weight in about 15 kg, but the maximum body length can exceed 1.4 meters, weight more than 60 kg.
In 2004, someone caught a "blue fish king" in the Nanjing Six Alloy Niuhu Reservoir, with a body length of 1.74 meters and a weight of 106 kg, and in 2005, someone caught another "blue fish king" at the same location, weighing 114 kg, setting a world record.
Catfish is also one of the large fish in the Yellow River, catfish in the world is more widely distributed, more than 100 species, the two largest species are European catfish and Mekong catfish, can grow to more than 100 kg, it is said that the largest European giant catfish body is more than 5 meters long, weigh more than 300 kg, and the Mekong giant catfish is larger, weighing more than 350 kg.
Although there are rumors that there are mysterious catfish in the Yellow River, which can overturn the boat and eat people, in fact, the Yellow River catfish belongs to one of the relatively small catfish, generally speaking, the weight is only a dozen pounds, the maximum is not more than 20 pounds, but it is also one of the largest fish in the Yellow River.
The largest fish in the Yellow River is the blue fish, because it can grow to more than 100 kilograms, that is, 200 kilograms, but there are rumors that the fish in the Yellow River can grow to 300 kilograms, which does not seem to be true. However, the waters of the Yellow River are becoming clearer, and the emergence of larger fish in the future is just around the corner. Interesting and informative scientific content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration