As we have introduced in the previous article, China is the world's largest fishing country and has the highest catch, and the two main fishing categories are fish (which do not need to be eaten by shelled children) and crustaceans (which need to be eaten by shelled children).
So, do you remember that in the crustaceans crustaceans caught in China from 1950 to 2017, what is the number one catch?
It doesn't matter if you don't remember, come and guess
Pike crab: Is it pike crab fried rice cake?
Is it a pretzel shrimp?
Pippi Shrimp: It's me
Shrimp: Is it albican shrimp?
It's actually hairy shrimp! ¥@...... &%#？？？
Between 1950 and 2017, the crustacean aquatic products of hairy shrimp, as the first crustacean in China, exceeded the second-ranked pike crab by 88% (that is, about 8.093 million tons)
What is the sacred of the hair shrimp, and then let's take a look at it together
Chinese hairy shrimp (image from the Internet)
Hairy shrimp can be subdivided into 14 species, depending on the species, the body length ranges from 15-40 mm, and the life span is between 3-10 months. Among them, china catches the most Chinese hairy shrimp (Acetes Chinensis) and Japanese hair shrimp (Acetes Japonicus).
Woolly shrimp are accustomed to gathering in shoals, sediment bottoms and the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong Province, and the water depth of 50 meters is the limit of their mobility.
Therefore, the fishing area of the shrimp is also offshore. China's Yellow and Bohai Sea regions are the main production areas.
The red part is the Asian wool shrimp fishing area
In China, what kind of yield changes do the woolly shrimp have? The change in the production of hairy shrimp is relatively similar to the trend of the total catch of China's fishery (for details, see "Forced Truth!"). Five Minutes to Become a Big Expert: Talk about Global Capture Fisheries"), followed the megatrend and began to take off in the 1980s and 1990s, peaking at nearly 620,000 tons in 2006 (nearly five times more than in 1980! ), and then there is a gradual downward trend.
From 1980 to 2016, China's wool shrimp fishing production and change trend (unit: 10,000 tons)
Even if the production has been reduced in recent years, last year's wool shrimp still accounted for 30% of China's total shrimp catch, surpassing all other species of shrimp!
However, the catch is so large, why is it rarely heard of? Why don't I seem to have eaten it?
In fact, hairy shrimp is a very important economic shrimp. However, because the hair shrimp is small, not easy to preserve freshness, and not easy to process, the requirements for equipment and processes for fishing and processing hair shrimp are very high. After harvesting, it must be quickly brought ashore to be made into human food, or pickled or dried or fermented, but the rotten parts are not thrown away, and they are made into poultry or fish feed.
And they also play a very important role in the aquatic ecosystem (that is, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp in the shrimp rice), in addition to cartilaginous fish (such as rays), cephalopods (such as octopus), and other larger shrimp eat it (Xiang Fry He Is too anxious)...
Therefore, in general, the story of the hairy shrimp actually has three directions: being eaten by you, eaten by me, and eaten by him:
Hairy shrimp is important, well!
It is also eaten in a variety of forms, such as shrimp skin (some areas are also called dried shrimp).
Although there is no meat to eat, it feels like it is eating the skin of the shrimp, so it is called shrimp skin, but its nutritional value is not low, every 100 grams of shrimp skin contains 39.3 grams of protein, almost six or two times that of beef! In addition, the mineral content of shrimp skin is also very rich, such as nearly 1000 mg of calcium per 100 grams of shrimp skin, which is equivalent to the daily calcium requirement of an 11-18-year-old teenager. Therefore, shrimp skin is also known as "calcium reservoir".
Shrimp skin (Source: Petal Network - Dong Mingyang 68Design)
An expert who traveled to Africa to study ethnography once observed that in some food-poor places, there are large numbers of malnourished children, but at the same time there are also well-developed children. After a period of investigation, it was found that the difference in the developmental status between species stemmed from the fact that some mothers would mix shrimp skins into the food of their children.
According to the data, in addition to Asian countries in the world, some African countries, such as Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, also have a history of fishing for shrimp skins. However, compared with the larger commercial fishing and disposal methods in Asia, and the role of accessories in daily life, shrimp skin in African countries is mainly fished by women out of the home for domestic consumption, and has become an unexpected pillar of nutrition!
Another common use is shrimp paste, which is commonly found in China's coastal areas and Southeast Asia. Hairy shrimp through the pickling, drying, grinding and other processing processes, made into a variety of shrimp paste, generally used as a condiment (shrimp sauce fried sweet potato leaves to understand?). ）。
Of course, we know from a certain literature (Kang et al., 2015) that a major place for China's shrimp exports is South Korea, with exports of nearly 20,000 tons in 2011. After the small editor's bold assumptions and careful verification, the hairy shrimp is still used as an accessory to add the salty taste of food.
What food? Shout with me: Kimchi!
So, the hairy shrimp with such a high yield is not a mysterious character, it is just a small shrimp rice that trembles at the bottom of the food chain in nature. It is not as mouth-watering as the pike crab and pippi shrimp that we love to eat, but it makes the wontons, sweet potato leaves, kimchi, seaweed soup in front of us... Becoming different is also the nutritional responsibility of our distant African brothers.
When enjoying shrimp skin and shrimp paste
Don't forget to thank the little hairy shrimp
A great contribution to our table
Respect！！
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