It is more appropriate to eat fish in the summer, and this year's pork is more expensive, but the price of fish has not risen, which is a blessing for some people who love fish. There are many fish in the market now, not only a variety of freshwater fish, but also many marine fish for everyone to choose from. Most people consume fish, a few dollars a pound, a dozen dollars a pound, and when it is expensive, it is also a few dozen dollars a pound. But today the author will introduce this fish for you, but it is the top of the mountain stream fish, it grows extremely slowly, in 4 years can only rise less than 10 cm, but can sell a thousand yuan.
Many people have seen grass carp, and many people like to eat this kind of fish, like the grilled fish in the night market, most of which are made of grass carp. And there is also a kind of fish that grows in a deep pool, which is very similar to grass carp, but it is not as big as grass carp, and it is often mistaken for the seedling of grass carp, that is, Taishan red scale fish. This fish is produced in Mount Taishan, and only in Taishan, there has been a saying since ancient times that "red scaled fish do not go down the mountain".
This fish is a carp family, a specialty of Taishan in Shandong Province. Red scaled fish like to grow in deep water pool water, Taishan is mainly produced in the black dragon pond, peach blossom Yu, Houshi code and other deep water areas, of which the black dragon pond produced the best red scale fish. It looks a lot like grass carp fry, and even the fish scales have a little resemblance.
In the past, there were more Taishan red scaled fish, sometimes a mouthful of springs can exceed 10,000 pounds, generally up to thousands of pounds, is a kind of mountain stream fish loved by locals. And the red scale fish grow very slowly, generally 4 years to grow 10 cm, which may be related to their diet, after all, the red scale fish generally grow in rivers at an altitude of 300-1500 meters, where the altitude is higher, and there is less to eat in the water.
However, the lifespan of the red-scaled fish is very long, and the longest can live to twenty or thirty years old. And because of the slow growth, so the meat of the red scale fish is very tender, and eat very good, not fishy at all, fragrant but not greasy, in addition to containing potassium, zinc, magnesium, calcium, copper and other more than 12 kinds of minerals, as well as more than 18 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body and more than 18 kinds of anti-aging fatty acids, etc., so the nutritional value is very high, deeply loved by people.
According to the color of the body surface, the Taishan red scale fish can be divided into two kinds, one that shines on the fish scales, called the golden red scale, which is the authentic red scale fish. Another type of scale armor is bluish-black, also known as the blue-scaled iron scale fish. The former is adaptable and widely distributed; in general, where there are red scales, there must be iron scales, and where there are iron scales, there are not necessarily red scales.
In recent years, the wild Tarzan red scaled fish has been very rare, and because of its small number, it has been rated as a national second-class protected animal. However, its demand in the market is still very large, so some local farmers in Taishan have begun to raise red scaled fish here, and the price is not cheap. As mentioned earlier, red-scaled fish grow very slowly, taking 4-5 years to grow to 10 cm, so it is usually more valuable to grow larger and larger. And a red scale fish of more than 20 centimeters can be sold for one or two thousand yuan in the market, even if the breeding prospects are good.
Now the wild red scaled fish has become a protected animal and cannot be caught. And the farmed red scale fish generally takes three years to market, until it grows to 8 cm.
Have you ever eaten this fish?