Text: Xiong Peicheng
In the countryside, because there are many people who go out to work, but it is difficult to get paid outside, so many people choose to return to their hometowns to start a business, so in the hometown, you can see a lot of growers and farmers, especially cattle, in the countryside, the most, but not necessarily, because some areas are different geographically, so they will not breed cattle and sheep.
For example, in coastal cities, it is not suitable for raising cattle and sheep, etc., but each has its own advantages, although it is not suitable for cattle raising in coastal areas, but aquaculture is very suitable, in rural aquaculture, many fish species have many rural friends in breeding, but there is one that no one dares to breed, this species is "knife loach", why is this?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > what is a knife loach</h1>
People who have not seen knife loach are more curious, what is knife loach? In fact, knife loach is a fish species that lives in freshwater, also known as Chinese loach, steel loach, etc., the main distribution area is generally in China's south, Huai River, Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Henan Four Lakes and other waters.
Why is it called "knife loach"? The main reason is because of their appearance problems, because of the long slender, there are thorns on the back, but also relatively sharp, if you accidentally touch it, it is easy to be stabbed, plus they are long like a small knife, therefore, people also slowly called it "knife loach", and later this has slowly become the consensus of everyone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > use value</h1>
As we said at the beginning, why do farmers dare not breed knife loach? Then we must first talk about the value of knife loach, we know whether we can raise it, and then why we dare not raise this problem.
The main value of knife loach is edible, as a relatively rare river fresh in the freshwater river, because of its delicious taste, delicious meat, and the most important thorns, so it has become a favorite food of many people.
In our country, the meat is delicious, less thorns in this case, if it can not become a delicacy, then this fish must be a national protected animal, and because the knife loach and loach length is more similar, so there will be many people to mistake the knife loach for loach, but the taste is far apart, the taste of knife loach is much better than the loach, which is why people have always loved.
Knife loach cooking method is also particularly much, the difference between north and south is also huge, in our country basically speaking, there is even such a sentence, called "south sweet north salty east sour and spicy", so when cooking knife loach, it is also different, but relatively speaking, due to the rarity and rarity of knife loach, so in cooking, most of them are cooked with the flavor of Zhejiang cuisine, so that it is exquisite and delicious.
And knife loach in the market is also relatively rare, if there is a knife loach on the market to sell, then generally at least can sell to about 60 yuan a pound, expensive can even sell to about 80 yuan, it is also therefore, so in the market, basically rarely see knife loach dried fish and processed knife loach products.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" >Why does no one dare to raise it in the countryside? </h1>
So such a delicious knife loach, according to the theory, the market should be very large, then why in the countryside, many farmers do not dare to raise knife loach?
There are three main reasons for this:
First, the scarcity of fish fry
It should be known that this knife loach, generally living in fresh water, generally began to spawn around June and July, and the amount of eggs laid is still very low, unlike other fish that can lay tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time.
Knife loach generally spawn, the number of about 600-1100 grains, to know that in nature, can survive the fish eggs, generally said about one-tenth, may even be lower than this, so calculated, can become a surviving, the knife loach is also less than 100, it can be seen that this is also one of the reasons why the knife loach is not raised, that is, because there is no fry, there is no way to breed.
Second, the environment is not suitable
Generally speaking, knife loach are living in a area with better water quality, and still need to flow water, so for the living environment of knife loach, the requirements are extremely harsh, and in the countryside it is difficult to achieve the living environment of knife loach, so this leads to not many people in the countryside dare to raise, breeding to the end is afraid of not conforming to the living environment of knife loach, resulting in a large number of knife loach deaths, which is also losing money, so this is also one of the reasons why they dare not raise.
Third, small-scale aquaculture is difficult to achieve economic growth
As we said above, the fry of knife loach is very scarce, so it is difficult to achieve large-scale breeding, so in general, due to the scarcity of fish fry, it can only be made into small-scale aquaculture, but in the countryside, breeding is to make money and achieve economic growth, if it is only small-scale farming, the input cost is too large, the recovery of economic benefits is not ideal, resulting in difficult to achieve economic growth, which makes it difficult to achieve economic growth in the countryside.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > conclusion</h1>
So relatively speaking, knife loach is a very delicious freshwater fish, but because of its particularity, it is difficult to breed knife loach on a large scale, which also causes knife loach to be sold for 60 yuan a catty in the market, but with the development of time, it should overcome this problem and make knife loach become an ordinary fish food that people can eat.
So do you have any different views on why no one in the countryside breeds knife loach? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.