Have you ever seen a large lobster at 1 meter 4? Do you want a limited edition silver bracelet? Take a bite of Chinese splendid lobster and fulfill both wishes at the same time.
Splendid lobster
In May 2021, police in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, received reports from the public that a seafood restaurant on Fengze Road was suspected of selling animals protected by the state. The police quickly came to the scene, and sure enough, they found two Chinese horseshoe crabs and 9 Chinese splendid lobsters in the pool of the restaurant.
Chinese splendid lobster
Chinese horseshoe crab and Chinese splendid lobster are both national second-class protected animals, as the boss said, the Chinese horseshoe crab purchased by himself is not for food, but in the store, and is taken to release on June 19 every year. But how can our comrades in the police believe that the responsibility of the restaurant owner should not be able to run.
Splendid lobster belongs to the order Acephalus, a family of lobsters, a species of lobster genus. Because this lobster is covered with stripes, it is also known as green shrimp, flower lobster and so on.
Chinese splendid lobster
The body length can generally reach 60 cm, and it belongs to the larger group of lobsters in the genus, which is the world's most valuable economic shrimp. Because of its gorgeous appearance, splendid lobsters were known as "god shrimps" in ancient times.
So far, the artificial nursery of rusty lobster has not made effective progress, and the number can only be expanded through artificial breeding and protection and breeding. In China, it is mainly distributed in the South China Sea and Taiwan, and the number is relatively small.
In addition, the growth cycle of the rusty lobster is also very long, generally two to three years old before sexual maturity. The shrimp are transparent at birth, and then gradually take on a variety of colors.
Chinese splendid lobster
In the past, people may have eaten it, but at the beginning of last year, the mainland adjusted the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection", and the original rusty lobster was only a key protected animal in Fujian Province, and now it is also included in the national love second-level protected animal. Therefore, everyone will encounter this shrimp in the future or hide away.
Why protect animals
Lobster is a scarce species on the mainland, but it is produced abroad. Because lobsters like to inhabit the warm ocean or near the coast.
Although the coastline of the mainland is long, but most of them belong to the northern temperate zone, the distribution range of the rusty lobster in the mainland was mainly distributed in Taiwan and the South China Sea region in the early days, and the global climate has warmed in the past two years, and the rust lobster has widely appeared in the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Chinese splendid lobster
On the other hand, the culinary level of Chinese foodies is obvious to all. Whether it is the animal offal that is difficult for foreigners to eat, or these delicate lobsters, there are many flavors that can be made in China.
The foreigner's approach to lobster is very simple, except for the French, most people do not like to eat lobster with a shell.
Except, of course, for Boron. However, the prongs of Bolong are not strictly lobsters. Even if you eat it, you will eat it exclusively, and the face is greater than the taste.
In addition, the only thing that can be eaten in the world than China is the African brothers. But before the African crayfish flooded, it ho ho ho ho the local water resources that were already scarce.
Normally, eating a seafood dinner in China costs at least a few hundred yuan, but in some relatively developed coastal areas of Africa, as long as it costs a few tens of yuan, you can eat enough.
Little Aolong
We have the impression of Africa as poor, with nothing to eat, reduced to eating rats and frogs. Anyway, Africans can't cook crayfish at all, this kind of shelled thing makes foreigners really rude, and the market price has fallen by two dollars and a pound and no one buys it.
In Tanzania, for example, the lobster market in Tanzania costs 35,000 kilograms, and 29 yuan can be exchanged for 10,000 Tanzanian shillings.
In order to drive out oysters as soon as possible, Denmark, known as the fairytale kingdom, has added several visa centers in China and lowered many requirements, in order to quickly let Chinese foodies eliminate these oysters.
Lobster abroad
I believe that everyone often saw this kind of sea rush video in the first two years, and many bloggers have caught this beautiful lobster at the beach, and the meat is tender and smooth to eat. Seeing this, many small partners must have left envious saliva.
But in the past two years, the video about the rusty lobster has become the style of buying vegetables and cooking. I have to say that the rusty lobster is indeed caught too much by people.
crayfish
In 2017, a fisherman in Zhejiang caught a 1.4-meter-long, 6.6-kilogram rusty lobster while fishing. It is said that at that time, someone bid 1 million yuan to buy, and before the fisherman could sell it, the lobster burped.
No way, the family had to tearfully eat the lobster, this wave is really a blood loss.
Little Aolong
However, such a large lobster shell could also sell for a good price at that time. Some seafood restaurants often buy large lobsters and place them in aquariums, or make them into specimens to increase their grandeur and attract customers to stop and watch. Due to its large size and gorgeous pattern, the rusty lobster is also the first choice for seafood restaurants.
However, the size of the fisherman's catch has not been recorded since 2017, and the record of the splendid lobster fishing on the mainland should also be frozen at the value of 1 meter 4.
crayfish
Nowadays, the rusty lobster has become a protected animal, and although the artificial breeding can be eaten, the price is also a little expensive. Generally, they range from 700 to 1000 yuan a catty, and then more expensive are sold to 1300 a catty.