Introduction: Commonly known as "water bee", China's unique cold water fish, often mistaken for yellow spicy ding, 200 yuan 1 pound
On summer nights, many people like to go fishing in the wild. Because the day is more sweltering, and the work and life are busier, choose to go out wild fishing at night, so that you can not only relax, but also catch some rare wild game at night. After all, many fish like to come out at night. For example, yellow spicy ding is like this, generally going to some deep pools at night is always a good harvest.
Yellow spicy ding is a kind of fish that many anglers love to eat, not only because it looks a little cute, but also because it has a high nutritional value. However, the yellow spicy dings all have their own "hidden weapons", and their poisonous needles are stung, and the pain is quite uncomfortable, and they are not stung by the horse bees at all. In fact, there is a kind of fish, which looks very much like yellow spicy ding, is also full of golden yellow and very cute, and also has a "poisonous needle", but its price is much more expensive than yellow spicy ding, which can be sold for more than 200 yuan a pound in the market, but there are very few people who breed it.
This fish is called water bee in many places in the folk, because its dorsal fin and pectoral fin have 3 stingers, and the pain of stinging people is like a horse wasp, but because it lives in the water, it is called "water bee", and some places are also called rake brain shell fish, rake beard fish, rice soup paste and so on. But few people know that its scientific name is Bai Feng.
Water bees are a kind of cold-water fish unique to China, and they are mainly distributed in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China. The water bee looks very much like a yellow spicy ding, and some people often mistake it for a yellow spicy ding. Its head is large, its mouth is swollen on both sides, and it has two tentacles on both sides of its mouth, and its whole body is mainly golden, and it looks a bit like a catfish.
Water bees are unique to China's small cold-water demersal fish, its growth is very slow, less than one or two a year, the largest size is about 20cm, this fish is difficult to grow. This may be related to their living habits, because water bees are mainly in some streams with very clear water, or in the bottom of the activity, so there is not much food to eat.
But don't look at the size of the water bee is not large, but the price is very expensive, in the market water bees can generally sell for more than 200 yuan a pound, some large will be more expensive, and also long-term supply is in short supply. On the one hand, this is related to the scarcity of water bees, which are currently mainly wild and very smallly farmed. The reason is that the technical threshold of water bee breeding is high, the requirements for the growth environment are very strict, and only the deep pool with clear water flow is suitable, after all, it is a cold-water fish. Therefore, the breeding environment is limited, and many people dare not try it easily even if they want to breed.
Another reason is that water bees are rich in nutrients and have an excellent taste. If you want to say where people love to eat it, it is not Sichuan and Chongqing. Because the water bee is growing in the stream, very clean, eat no mud smell not to say, and its flesh is very tender, especially the head of the meat bulging, there is no thorn, so it is very popular with the locals, especially with it to the hot pot, let people taste endlessly, deeply favored by the majority of foodies and friends.
In the past, when I went to deep pools, I could occasionally touch or catch water bees, but in recent years, the number of wild water bees has become less and less, and there is no trace of water bees in many places. It is also due to the reduction of the number of water bees, and the improvement of living standards, many people pay more attention to the quality of life, so the price of water bees is constantly rising. However, due to the limited living conditions of water bees, breeding technology is also high, and many people dare not try it easily. Dear netizens and friends, do you know water bees? Ever eaten?