"Catching this stuff early in the morning, it's obscure!" Leave it on the shore for 6 hours and then leave it to fend for itself! An angler in Shenzhen began to complain after catching two fat "scavengers."
Many netizens in Guangdong also complained: "After catching this kind of fish, it is too bad, not only looks ugly, the key is that it cannot be eaten... It can only be treated harmlessly..."
Scavenger, scientific name leopard print lipid catfish, also known as lower mouth catfish, is an exotic fish species native to Latin America. They are notorious for their habit of sucking fish eggs, and it is precisely because of this habit that they are spurned, and many netizens also think that this fish is too hateful to make people cry and laugh after discovering them.
Some people tie them to trees, some people hang them in mid-air, some people directly use slab bricks to "open their skulls", and some people dry them to make shoes and step directly on their feet...
This fisherman in Shenzhen put the scavenger caught on the ground for 6 hours, and many netizens felt still uneasy, saying: "You must not think that this thing is dead, and you may be able to come back to life after encountering water..." "It is best to dig a pit to 'bury it alive', or it will always be a hidden danger..."
A small "scavenger", why do so many netizens hate it? The main reasons are as follows:
First: this alien species from Latin America, extremely adaptable, is said to leave the water for several hours will not die, so much so that some netizens suggested that after catching them, it is best to bury them in the soil to prevent them from resurrecting.
Second, scavengers have no natural enemies in the country to balance, their hard shells and sharp dorsal fins have become a talisman, almost no fish can swallow them, even fierce blackfish, it is estimated that they will not easily provoke them. Therefore, scavengers can easily flood local waters, seriously encroaching on the living space of native fish.
Second, they have their mouths down, spend most of their time underwater, and like to suck the eggs of other fish, putting other fish at risk of "sterilization";
Third, most netizens think that this fish likes to eat dirty things under the water, thinking that they are "garbage fish", so few people will eat them in China.
Adaptability, the absence of predators, and the fact that people don't like to eat cause the number of scavengers to skyrocket once they invade natural waters, posing a great threat to the native four fish.
In Guangdong, Fujian and other places, the situation of scavenger invasion is more serious. A Guangdong angler put it this way: "This kind of fish that looks a little uncomfortable, I don't know why someone would raise them?" ”
Most people who breed scavengers have a purpose, that is, to use their habit of eating dirty things to clean the fish tank.
But can scavengers really play a role in cleaning up fish tanks?
Many netizens who like to raise fish have said that the effect is minimal, and the scavenger can indeed eat part of the green algae on the wall of the fish tank, but they do not eat the dirty things in the fish tank, and they themselves will produce a lot of "domestic garbage", making the fish tank more dirty.
After many people find their true face, they abandon them, some of them are thrown in the trash, but there are also some netizens who do not know their harm, they will release them into the river, and over time, the scavengers will form a flooding trend in local waters.
Although they have the title of "strong waist fish", the scavengers do not seem to arouse everyone's appetite, and almost no one will eat them. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to clean up these water scourges, and relying solely on anglers to fish is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.
It is also suggested that scavengers be crushed to make feed or cat or dog food. This method seems to be more reliable, but basically no one wants to do it, and the cost of fishing alone will be prohibitive, so no one will have the incentive to actively catch them.
The author believes that to clean up this hateful exotic fish species, the most fundamental thing is to grasp it from the source, take the initiative to increase publicity, let everyone realize its harm, do not release it at will, and avoid further expansion of its "invasion" scope.
Netizens think there is any better way to clean up the annoying alien species of "scavengers"?