Abstract: 200 yuan 1 pound? 5 kinds of small stream fish, which used to be common and often eaten, but now they are all "difficult to find"
Have you found that in recent years, the small miscellaneous fish in many rural rivers have now become "precious fish", which is tens of yuan, or even hundreds of yuan a pound.
And these fish are expensive, not to mention, not that you can buy them if you want, because they have become very rare. In addition, there is no one who specializes in breeding, and its source depends on the wild, which is naturally very difficult to see on the market.
What do you think of when you think of the little fish in the rural streams? Today, Xiaobian will come with you to recall the 5 kinds of small fish that only existed in the rural streams 20 or 30 years ago, and now they are all valuable.
The first is the gobies.
Don't be biased by its name, the name of the goby is very scary, it will give people the feeling that this is a large and fierce fish. In fact, gobies are a very small fish, generally only a few centimeters long, and it is also the largest family of fish, with more than 2,000 known species so far.
Gobies are widely distributed on the mainland, in the waters of the north and south, and it is generally found in some streams, rivers and reservoirs with slower flow. In particular, stone pools where the water flow is not deep, or the underlying environmental activities of the bottom of the water with rubble, stone gaps, and sediment.
Folk commonly known as gobies are also called tang snake, sand snakehead, native fish, tiger head shark, tiger head dumb, earth fish, etc., its scientific name is "sand pond snake", is a kind of fish that does not swim very well, looks like a tiger head tiger brain.
This fish is not large, but it is a carnivorous fish, and it loves to eat some smaller fish than it. The general carnivorous fish taste good, and the quality of natural goby is also good.
In the past, there were many such fish at the bottom of rivers and streams, and some people used to feed cats and ducks at that time, but now after drying, the most expensive time can be worth hundreds of yuan a catty, and most of them are farmed, and wild ones are very rare.
The second species is the brook stonefish.
Brook stone fish, also known as stream grouper, small stream spot, small spotted fish, etc., as the name suggests, is a small fish that only exists in some streams with good water quality.
The characteristics of this fish are very obvious, that is, it will have zebra-like stripes on its body. They mostly live in rocky places in streams, mainly eating some moss and aquatic weeds attached to the stones, so the growth rate of this fish is very slow.
In fact, the appearance of xi grouper is still relatively high, but it has high requirements for water quality, it is not easy to feed, and it will soon die after being caught. Otherwise, it is still good to breed as a pet fish.
The meat quality of the creek grouper is very good, there is no fishy smell at all. But its fish eggs can not be eaten, this is a little poisonous. In the past, many people used to catch this fish in some streams after the water rose in the summer. But because it is small and has to go to the internal organs, some people hate it and even feed it to cats and dogs.
And now in the author's hometown, the wild brook grouper can already sell for 200 yuan a catty when it is expensive, even in normal times, it will sell for more than 120 yuan a catty.
The third is the stone climbing bass.
In the folk, it is often called stone crawler fish, or climbing fish, rocket fish, bluestone climber, etc., which is also a fish with high water quality requirements, and is generally active at the bottom of some rapid streams.
And the stone crawler is very interesting to look at, its head is not large, its tail is small, and it has something like a suction cup on the abdomen, which allows them to move close to the surface of the rock in the water.
When they were young, children liked to go to some streams to touch fish with their bare hands, and sometimes they would catch this fish in some caves. It is a very delicious fish, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best of freshwater fish. Although it is small, it is very delicious.
It is also because it is so delicious, coupled with the overfishing over the years, especially some wrong fishing methods, such as electric fish, etc., resulting in this fish has become very rare. I don't know what the situation is in other places, but it is difficult to see this fish in my hometown. At present, I have heard that they can already sell for six or seven hundred yuan a catty.
The fourth is the boat nail fish.
As can be seen from its name, this fish has a characteristic look, just like the ancient ship nails used for shipbuilding, its body is cylindrical and very slender. Generally, the size of this fish is not large, about 10cm, but a very small number of them can grow to more than 25cm.
The nailfish like to move in the middle and lower layers of rivers and lakes, especially in some slow-flowing streams. Don't look at its size is not too big, but it is very fat, and the taste is also very delicious, so it also has a certain economic value, some of the market price of wild boat ding fish can be sold to 80-100 yuan per kilogram.
The fifth species is the gill.
Don't think of it as loach, it's a more ferocious fish than loach. Although the gill does not bite, it has a hidden weapon on its body - a row of hidden barbs, very sharp, if you do not pay attention to it with your bare hands, it is easy to scratch it, and this is why it got its name loach.
The loach does look a lot like a loach with a "sharp-billed monkey's cheek", but it is generally larger than a loach, and it does not live in mud, mainly in streams with clear water, on the bottom of reservoirs.
In the past, the loach was not popular, and it was considered to be an obscure fish, and when it was caught, it was trampled to death with its feet, or it was stoned to death, because it often scratched people. And at that time, many people said that loach was not delicious.
Now the loach can be very popular, if the price of wild is several times more expensive than loach, some places have heard that they have been sold for more than 100 yuan a pound. Not long ago, I went fishing in the reservoir with my friends, and I was fortunate to catch a loach, which bit the hook too hard, because there was no professional hooking tool, and finally broke my fish hook.
Of course, there are many such "small stream fish" in the countryside, which were very common in the past, but now they are very rare. And because these fish are too small, have high water quality requirements, are difficult to breed, and costly, there are very few people who currently breed them. And things are rare and expensive, so the price of these fish is also high.
Dear netizens, are there more of these fish in your hometown? What other expensive stream fish do you know? You are also welcome to leave a message to discuss!