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Speaking of turtles and catfish, friends who like to fish are familiar with it, and they can often be caught in fishing, and even some anglers' fishing target fish!
Of course, as ordinary people, we also know more about them, especially for foodie friends, the understanding should be more "thorough", after all, they are the more common ingredients in our daily life.
However, in India's Ganges River, turtles and catfish are flooded but rarely eaten.
India wanted to export the Ganges due to the flooding of turtles and catfish in the Ganges, which affected the ecological balance of the Ganges. In this way, in addition to controlling their number and maintaining ecological balance, they can also earn a part of foreign exchange.
However, "the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone", India's plan, soon by the unity of foodies in various countries "banned", before the official operation of the "stillborn belly"! Foodies from all over the world have said: don't come over, go away, don't dare to eat, don't take the plate!
How much are the turtles and catfish in india's Ganges?
Why are so few people in India eating Ganges turtles and catfish?
Why do foodies in various countries uniformly "ban" Ganges turtles and giant bass fish, and say: Don't come over, don't take the plate?
Regarding the above three questions, we will find out here!
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Originating in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and the Deccan Plateau, the Ganges Flows into the Bay of Bengal, and the basin passes through a quarter of India's land, making it one of the birthplaces of Indian civilization and Buddhism, and is known as the "Holy River" in India!
Although there are 140 species of fish and 90 species of amphibians in the Ganges River in India, the largest numbers are the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish!
1: Ganga turtle
Ganges turtle is different from turtles, grass turtles, in addition to living in India, it is mainly distributed in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, there are also a small number of distribution in China.
The Ganges turtle has a green or olive back, black markings between the head and neck, a pale yellow or gray abdomen, and a soft, rough, and distinctly grainy carapace.
The Ganges turtle has a long lifespan and large individuals, surviving for 70 to 100 years, and the adult body length is about 70 cm to 100 cm. Due to the large size of the Ganges turtle, the shell of the turtle is like a large cauldron lid, and it is also played by netizens as "pot lid turtle".
According to incomplete statistics, there are about 3 million to 5 million Ganges turtles in the Ganges!
Such a large number of individual Ganges turtles are not afraid of people in the Ganges! When people feed food along the river, they flock to cover the entire surface of the water.
2: Giant bass
Speaking of giant bass, some netizens may not be familiar with it, but when it comes to Ganges catfish, I want to believe that everyone understands!
If 3 million to 5 million Ganges turtles have flooded in the Ganges, then the Ganges catfish can be described as "flooded"!
Although there are no statistics on the Ganges catfish, it is an indisputable fact that it is far more numerous than the Ganges turtle, and they are the "bosses" in the Ganges.
Ganges catfish netizens are accustomed to calling them "piranha catfish", which consists of two main species of catfish: Egyptian pond catfish and giant catfish.
Egyptian pond catfish, also known as leather-bearded catfish, is a partial carnivorous omnivorous fish, with a certain degree of predatory and scavenging.
Giant bass are similar in size to Egyptian pond mackerels, but they are large predatory fish with a fierce personality, with a maximum body length of more than 200 cm and a weight of more than 100 pounds.
Netizens call the Ganges "man-eating catfish", mostly referring to giant bass or Egyptian pond bream with large individuals.
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We know that India is not a developed country, and even some of them are backward and poor, and the people's food is relatively scarce!
If this is the case, why are the Ganges turtles and catfish in the Ganges so rarely eaten that they are allowed to flood?
This is mainly related to India's religious beliefs and customs!
The Ganges is known as the "Holy River" in India, and it is a sacred river in the hearts of Indians, and their life, old age, illness and death are almost all related to the Ganges!
Most Hindu believers have four great aspirations in their lives: to worship Lord Shiva; to bathe in the holy water of the Ganges and drink the holy water of the Ganges; to make friends with saints; and to live in the holy city of Varanasi.
In the hearts of Indians, the Ganges is the embodiment of the goddess of purification, and the water of the Ganges is the holiest water! It can restore health and regenerate the soul.
The Ganges has many pilgrims every year, holding their religious ceremonies in the water.
In addition to being more than 1,300 years old, the Quimba merah Congress, which is held every 12 years, has more than 400 religious festivals a year in Varanasi alone!
In addition, the city of Allahabad, with a population of less than 700,000, can receive 70 million pilgrims in 6 weeks! If each person occupies one square meter of the river, almost 25,000 people can bathe in the water at a time. However, the bathers only have one minute, and after a minute, they have to quickly change to another group. In this way, everyone can be guaranteed to bathe!
In addition to religious festivals, Indians believe in cremation and baptism in the Ganges. They believe that after death, the cremated ashes, remains or uncreated remains can be washed away by putting them into the Ganges! This also leads to the frequent drifting of "floating corpses" in the Ganges.
The ashes, remains, and uncreated remains scattered into the Ganges will eventually become the main carnivorous Ganges turtles, giant catfish, and the food of the scavenger Egyptian pond turtle. This is also the origin of the "piranha catfish"!
Because the Ganges turtle, the giant bass, and the Egyptian pond mackerel live in the "holy river" of India and often eat the remains of the Ganges, out of respect for the deceased, they have a special status in the eyes of Indians, so few people eat it!
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Because the locals rarely eat it, the Ganges turtle, giant catfish and Egyptian pond turtle have few natural enemies in the waters, resulting in their flooding in the Ganges River in India, which has affected the ecological balance.
In order to change this phenomenon, they intend to export these "delicacies" to other countries. In addition to maintaining ecological balance, you can also earn foreign exchange.
However, their wishful thinking is empty! After hearing about it, foodies from all over the world made a "ban" on the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish, and said one after another: Don't come over, walk away, don't dare to eat, don't take the plate!
Why do foodies in various countries uniformly "ban" this and say "don't come over and don't take the plate"?
The reason is as netizens said: Ganga turtle, Ganges catfish, although the number is large, the individual is larger, but it has been poisoned into the bone marrow, no one dares to eat!
First of all: the food of the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish makes foodies shut up!
As we said above, Indians believe that the water of the Ganges can wash away the sins of the deceased, and the remains and remains of people after death will be thrown into the Ganges and become the food of the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish. In this way, these people-eating Ganges turtles and Ganges catfish are difficult for foodies from all over the world to accept.
Secondly: the Water of the Ganges is seriously polluted, and the Ganges turtle and ganga catfish are even more poisonous to the bone marrow!
Because the Ganges has many religious festivals every year to welcome many pilgrims, the river is filled with all kinds of garbage, feces, urine, and germs carried by bathers.
At the same time, the residents along the Ganges River, although washing, bathing, and even drinking all use the water of the Ganges, but whether it is household garbage, or feces, urine, etc. are discharged into the Ganges. As a result, more than 300 million residents discharge at least more than 130,000 cubic meters of sewage into the Ganges every day.
In addition, the cities along the Ganges River also discharge domestic sewage, industrial sewage and wastewater into the river! Some non-degradable plastic-wrapped industrial waste, religious sacrifices and other high pollutants have deepened the pollution of the Ganges.
Scientists have found that in the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges, the water contains a large number of E. coli, 5 meters from the shore, the content of E. coli has been higher than the drinking water standard 20 to 30 times! The content of individual segments exceeded the normal value by 280 times. In the Varanasi section, E. coli in water was measured to exceed the standard set by India by more than 100 times.
In addition, the World Bank estimates that the health costs caused by water pollution in India are about three percent of GDP, and 80% of diseases and one-third of the causes of death are related to water-borne diseases!
At the same time, the relevant departments of the United Nations also paid the fish and shrimp in the waters of the Ganges River for chemical analysis. The analysis results show that almost all fish and shrimp contain toxins!
Since the fish and shrimp in the Ganges Contain toxins, the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish survive longer, and with the accumulation of time, the toxins in their bodies will only be more, and even have been poisoned into the bone marrow! So, which foodie would dare to eat it?
The above is the reason why the Ganges turtle and the Ganges catfish want to export, but they are uniformly banned by foodies in various countries, and say "don't come over, don't take the plate", right?
As for the reason why "the infestation of The Ganges turtle and giant bass fish in India has been banned by foodies from various countries", I will talk to you here.
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