Many people have never seen it, not even heard of its name, and many veteran sea anglers have not seen it. When it comes to sumei fish, many people realize that yes, it is the name of the corrugated lip fish in China.
Corrugated lip fish are easily frightened, and when frightened, they will quickly burrow into coral reefs in search of safety. However, the corrugated lip fish is also a mild-tempered fish, often close to humans, divers can even touch it with their hands when diving, and swim with divers.
Due to its very beautiful shape, it has been kept in fish tanks as ornamental fish in China. It is not that the Sumei fish as an ornamental fish reduces its value, it can be said that it is an aristocratic fish, which is both a valuable ornamental fish and a high-end ingredient. As a high-end ingredient, it is used as a valuable edible fish, and the corrugated lip fish once sold for more than $200 per kilogram, which was eaten in large quantities and endangered. Corrugated lip fish has a small presence in China's waters, and because of its high economic value, many anglers regard it as a target fish.
It is its high selling price that stimulates some people to constantly venture to catch corrugated lip fish. The population density of the corrugated lip fish is not high, and in areas that are not caught and lightly fished, it is already rare, and after a large number of fishermen have caught it, making the local sea area endangered. How much does the ripple-free lip fish sell, whether it can be regarded as an ornamental fish, we all need to understand it, in order to better protect it.
Learn about the corrugated lip fish
Corrugated lip fish, also known as Su mei, corrugated parrot, curved lip fish, Napoleon seabream, dragon king seabream, haige dragon king and large pieces of pig, are mainly known as su mei fish in China.
1. The corrugated lip fish has a strange appearance. The corrugated lip fish has a long, flattened body, and the most obvious feature is a raised, super-hard bulge on the contour of the back of the head. This bulge is straight from the snout to the eye, and the posterior position is convex. Moreover, in this raised area, there is no bulge on the head of the juvenile fish stage, and only after the adult fish matures, there is a prominent raised bulge on the forehead. The pectoral fin is short; the caudal fin is rounded. The body color is yellowish brown to green, mainly green. There are dark straight lines on the scales. Adult corrugated lip fish body markings are obvious and colorful, and each corrugated lip fish has a unique pattern on the face, which radiates outward from the eyes, just like human fingerprints.
2. The corrugated lip fish is a famous giant fish that survives in the coastal waters of tropical areas. It can reach a length of 2.5 meters and weighs 190 kg. It is a large longhead fish, mainly known in China as sumei fish, "sumei" originated from the two stripes like eyebrows behind the eyes of this fish. And because the head has a high and bulging forehead, like the hat worn by Napoleon, it is called "Napoleon".
3. Wide distribution range. It is found in Oceania, the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, the Great Barrier Reef, the northwestern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Many coastal countries have its presence, such as China and other countries in Asia. Its huge size is delicious and is used as a valuable edible fish, and it can also be used as an ornamental fish in aquariums or large display fish tanks.
4. The habitat of the corrugated lip fish is narrow. It inhabits steep reef slopes, flowway slopes and lagoon reef rocks, or in algae-infested reefs and coral waters. Juvenile fish are found in coral reef-thriving areas of the Lagoon Reef. Its living water depth is 2 to 60 meters deep, and it is the largest coral fish.
5. Corrugated lip fish is a carnivorous fish. It has a wide range of diets and a wide range of foods, mainly fish and benthic animals, but also many species of invertebrates. Its diet includes mollusks, fish, sea urchins, crustaceans and other invertebrates. In addition to fish, it also includes many poisonous and spiny animals, such as sea urchins, crown of thorns starfish, hard scaled fish, and sea hares.
It should be noted that after the corrugated lip fish eats the poisonous animal, it will not be poisoned, but it will accumulate toxins in the fish body, and it should be noted when eating, be sure to clean up the toxins, otherwise it will cause itself to be poisoned after eating the corrugated lip fish.
6. Corrugated lip fish often live alone, and occasionally appear in pairs. Adults cruise between reefs during the day and under reef caves and coral shelves at night, with juveniles living mainly in coral reefs.
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In the ocean, the corrugated lipfish encounters few natural predators, and its natural mortality rate is low since the beginning of the seedlings, which ensures that the corrugated lipfish can grow freely in the ocean and was once widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Corrugated lip fish is tender and is a very famous delicacy, and has always been used as a high-grade ingredient, but because it is not clustered, the number is small, according to statistics, the price is expensive, and it has long been traded as an economic fish around the world. In submarine coral reefs, there are an average of 2 to 20 adult corrugated lipfish per hectare (rarely more than 10), far below the minimum density required for economic fish, and in some areas of heavy fishing, its population density will be lower, falling to one-tenth of the original population density, and in some areas it has even become extinct.
Studies in the oceans around the world have shown that the population of the corrugated lipfish is gradually decreasing as a result of worldwide commercial trade. By 2003, its population had declined by at least 50 per cent over the past 30 years, and its rate had plummeted by as much as 90 per cent at one point, with a tendency to accelerate. Many corrugated lip fish are caught by fishermen before they reach breeding age, resulting in fewer and fewer adults being able to reproduce. What is even more hateful is that in the process of fishing, the dragging of fishing nets and other serious threats are not only the survival of species, but also the fragile coral reef ecosystem.
Currently, the corrugated lipfish is listed on the IUCN 2004 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 – Endangered. At the same time, it is also included in the second level of the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection in China" by China. However, the only population protected by china is in the wild, and it may be rare in China's oceans due to climatic factors, and it is only occasionally seen in the Paracel Sea, and it is also threatened by illegal fishing boats by Vietnamese fishing boats.
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The fishing method of corrugated lip fish is similar to that of other marine fish, using a sub-line length of up to 2 to 4 meters, so that the hook bait floats with the current on the seabed, thus causing the attack of the corrugated lip fish to eat the bait. Lead pendants are best used in round pendants. After the fish is hit, it needs to be quickly lifted away to deny it the opportunity to enter the cave.
At present, it is difficult to catch corrugated lip fish in China's waters, and I have not heard of a record of catches in several years. At the same time, it is also listed as a secondary protected fish and fishing is prohibited. If you really want to fish, you can only go abroad, such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other places in the sea, or to Australia and other places, the country has not seen the corrugated lip fish for many years.
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Although most people have not been exposed to the corrugated lip fish, they may not have seen it, but it does not affect us to understand it. Only by truly understanding it can we better protect it. Although its population is not large, the world's perception of it is not the same, many countries can still catch fishing, still as a high-end ingredient to the table.
The corrugated lip fish has been listed as a secondary protected fish in China, and there are very few at present in China, as for the reason for its small number, it is still determined by the climate. It is a tropical fish that currently exists only in small quantities in the Paracel Sea. As a high-end ingredient, it is not protected in many countries and has been caught, and it is precisely because of overfishing that it has created today's situation.
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