Yangtze River Jun: In China's folk, the wild fish, turtles and turtles in the rivers and lakes in the reservoir, once they grow to a certain size, the legend will be "spiritual and humane", and many people think that they cannot be hurt and eaten at will.
For example, recently under a sluice gate in Mianyang, Sichuan, because the sluice gate was opened to release water, after a large catfish of dozens of kilograms was caught by the villagers, it was bought for 680 yuan in the blink of an eye and released into the downstream river...
01 Open the floodgates to release water, and the fellow villagers catch the "Fish King"
According to The Understanding of Yangtze River Jun, as soon as the opening of the gates of the Mianyang Hydropower Station was over, many nearby residents rushed to the river to fish and fish.
Friends who have lived in rural life know that when the gate is opened and the water is released, the fish in the upstream reservoir area will be washed downstream because the water flow is too fast, and even fall on the boulders and obstacles in the river and be injured, and it is difficult to escape, so it is a good time to fish.
Sure enough, from the scene, in addition to some common crucian carp, yellow spicy ding and other "miscellaneous fish", there are also many large grass carp, large carp were fished ashore...
Among them, the largest "fish king" is this forty or fifty pounds of "big earth catfish" - friends who love fishing should know that the growth rate of native wild catfish is slower than that of the exotic catfish in Egyptian pond catfish, so this 40 or 50 pounds of large earth catfish, in the natural river channel of Sichuan, has been regarded as a relatively rare "big catfish", it is estimated that it has grown for many years.
And when this "big catfish" was sold by the villagers on the side of the road, it also attracted the attention of many passers-by...
02 Passers-by could not bear to be eaten, and spent 680 yuan to buy and release
This kind of "wild fish" that has just been fished out of the sluice gate is still quite popular with local residents, and there are many people who come to buy fish.
This dozens of pounds of large catfish can be called the "fish king" on the spot, and it attracts many fish buyers to watch, some people marvel at the fat body, some people lament that this fish is not easy to grow, and some people envy its fat taste...
The largest one on site
However, a passerby who finally bought it was because "it is not easy to read its growth and could not bear it to be eaten", so he spent 680 yuan to buy it and release it.
The video of the release was taken by passers-by and uploaded to social media, which was also quickly spread, triggering a large number of netizens to discuss.
Hosei screen
03 Some people like it, some people spit it out
Yangtze River Jun: Catfish is still a popular ingredient in China (especially in Sichuan and Chongqing), if no one buys it and releases it, this big catfish is likely to be on the table.
Therefore, the "good deeds" that this passerby bought at his own expense but changed his hands to release it were also praised by many netizens, who called him "kind", "generous" and so on.
There are all kinds of opinions
However, some people also complained that catfish is a carnivorous fish, dozens of pounds of catfish a year to eat a few thousand pounds of fish easily, you released it, on the surface it seems to save its life, but have you thought about how many small fish and shrimp will be eaten by it?
04 How to evaluate this "good deed"?
ChangJiangjun believes that leaving aside the saying that "big fish have a spirit", only from the perspective of river ecological protection, this practice of releasing big fish is actually not necessary.
This is because catfish, although it has certain ecological significance for balancing river ecosystems as carnivorous fish, this large catfish, which is too large and has passed the growth inflection point, can actually be caught and eaten (so there is no need to accuse fish catchers of greed).
Too large a catfish will also increase the ecological load of the river
After it is fished away, it will make more "small catfish" grow up, and even other carnivorous fish such as mandarin fish and blackfish will also get a good living space and form a more colorful food chain.
Of course, such a large catfish is indeed not easy to grow, behind this good deed, it also reflects a certain humanistic spirit, Yangtze River Jun believes that it is still necessary to praise!
After all, as long as it is not an alien species, releasing it, at most, it will only be "completely returned to Zhao", which will not cause great ecological damage, not to mention that the passerby pays for it himself, and others seem to be blameless.
Old drivers, what do you think?