He is like a horse's hoof, and his tail drags a long sword, like an "iron general".
It is called hòu and is a marine life that has bred 450 million years ago to the present.
Two men in Qingjiang Town, Yueqing City, Wenzhou, bought vegetables in the vegetable market, saw a fishmonger selling horseshoe crab, bought it back and cooked it in a restaurant, returned home, and when sharing news online, before they had time to eat, they were arrested by the police.
The man went to the vegetable market to buy a horseshoe crab and carried it home, and was filmed by the surveillance.
Later, the police arrested the owner of the vegetable market, and two foodies and stall owners were criminally detained by the Yueqing police according to law for suspected endangering precious and endangered wild animals.
Attention! The horseshoe crab was included in the list of national second-level protected wild animals on February 5 this year, and in the past, people at the seaside occasionally ate it and could see it at wedding banquets. Along with it is the Splendid Lobster.
Splendid lobster
Yesterday, Chen Jian, a teacher at the Museum of Marine Biology of Zhejiang Ocean University, said that the horseshoe crab is an ancient creature that appeared earlier than the dinosaurs and is widely distributed in China, mainly two species, the Chinese horseshoe crab and the round-tailed horseshoe crab.
Chinese horseshoe crab is more common in Zhoushan, generally caught by fishermen in the coastal waters, even on the coastal beaches, beaches, sometimes can be seen in its figure. In Zhoushan, few people eat it as seafood, and I have heard fishermen say that its taste is not very good, not as good as crab.
Chen Jian said: "Its vitality is particularly tenacious, there is a friend who has been raised before, did not feed anything, raised in the seawater, after two or three months, still alive." ”
The other is the round-tailed horseshoe crab, which is highly toxic.
"Chinese horseshoe crabs and round-tailed horseshoe crabs look similar, but round-tailed horseshoe crabs contain highly toxic, toxins similar to pufferfish, and will have symptoms such as mouth and hand numbness, weakness and other symptoms, which is in danger of death."
In addition to the fact that the crab cannot be eaten, the splendid lobster is also "delisted" in the seafood recipe.
In the 1990s, in the homes of some fishermen in Zhoushan, a wooden plank was often hung on the wall of the living room, and a huge lobster specimen was nailed to the wooden board, and the tail of the whisker was more than a meter long.
This large lobster is rarely caught, so after eating the shrimp meat, fishermen will make specimens and collect them at home.
Splendid lobster, commonly known as green shrimp, flower lobster, mountain prawn, Yamato shrimp, sand shrimp, etc., in ancient times known as "god shrimp", body length up to 60 cm, is the largest body shape in the lobster genus, the body color is colorful and bright, once caught, natural eye-catching.
On March 14, 2018, a Fenghua fishing boat caught a 4.5-kilogram splendid lobster in the waters off Zhoushan. Staff at the Fenghua District Marine and Fisheries Bureau said that splendid lobsters are relatively rare and the first case in Fenghua to be caught.
On December 27, 2017, the boss of Daishan Boat also caught a splendid lobster in the waters of Zhoushan, weighing 6.6 kilograms, 60 centimeters long, and about 120 centimeters with antennae.
On August 11, 2017, Fujian Fuding fishermen caught 6.6 kilograms of splendid lobsters in the waters of Zhoushan, some people said that they could sell for 1 million yuan, unfortunately, only 4 days after the capture, the large lobster in the seafood pond of the hotel died.
In fact, the price of splendid lobster is not so high, people in Zhoushan International Aquatic City said that in the past, the dock occasionally saw the sale of splendid lobster, "a few thousand pieces of a pound, the price is not outrageous, tens of thousands of pounds is speculated out." ”
In addition, the yellow-lipped fish worth millions of yuan has "upgraded" from the original second-level protected wild animals to the first-class protected wild animals.
Yellow-lipped fish.
Yellow-lipped fish, priced like gold, is more eye-catching than wild yellow croaker every time it appears.
According to relevant reports, the transaction price of large yellow lip fish is more than one million yuan, and the expensive one even reaches four or five million yuan. The whole body of the yellow-lipped fish is a treasure, and the highest value on the body is its fish glue, a pound of dried fish glue, which can be sold for 4 million yuan.
Chen Jian said that the yellow lip fish will generally catch one or two fish every year, and some people will take risks and trade in the black market, "This is illegal, once it is seized by law enforcement departments, it will be investigated for legal responsibility." ”
What other seafood can't be caught and can't be eaten?
Chen Jian said: "In the ocean, cetaceans, seabirds, turtles, and most of the sea snakes are protected; in the case of fish, Chinese sturgeon, Yangtze River sturgeon and other sturgeon, seahorses, anchovies, flower eels, yellow-lipped fish and so on are protected." ”
The seahorse is also a fish and is a precious medicinal herb. It is slow-moving and usually lives in coral reefs and seaweed bushes. Fishermen occasionally catch it with fish when they traw it.
In Zhoushan, some people make it into dried seahorses, and some people use it to make soup and drink.
In January this year, the Police of Dinghai, Zhoushan, discovered that a shop in the jurisdiction was secretly selling wild seahorses, and immediately launched an investigation, cracking 6 cases of selling wild seahorses and seizing 302 dried seahorses.
"Wild seahorses are national second-level key protected animals, and even selling one is a crime and will be held criminally responsible." Kong Kaiwei, deputy captain of the public security brigade of the Dinghai District Public Security Bureau of Zhoushan City, said that most of the criminal suspects are not unaware that trafficking in wild seahorses is a suspected crime, and they are all secretly selling, small zebras are 15 to 20 yuan each, and large ocean-going seahorses are 40 to 50 yuan each.
More than ten years ago, when I went to Putuo Mountain, sitting on a passenger ferry and standing on the deck, I often saw a picture: in the midst of the white waves, a group of big fish shaped like pigs rose and fell with the waves on the sea, arching and arching, magnificent.
Many years ago, in the summer, swimming in the thousand steps of Putuo Mountain, occasionally someone would exclaim "Sharks are coming". To this end, a "shark net" has been specially set up, and tourists must not go beyond it.
Today, this creature, called a finless porpoise, has long been a protected animal, and every time it appears, it is news about their stranding.
In September last year, a pygmy sperm whale from the sea ran aground in Putuo Liuheng, Zhoushan. Fortunately, the citizens called the police after seeing it, and the rescue team members sent it back to the sea.
A few days later, a Chinese sturgeon ran aground on the east side of the Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge. According to Ma Dingfei, director of the Beach Office in Cixi Andong Town, this is the second Chinese sturgeon stranded this year, and it is all trapped on the beach at low tide.
Chinese sturgeon has also been found many times in Zhoushan. A staff member of the Zhoushan Marine and Fisheries Bureau said that every year, fishermen in Zhoushan mistakenly catch endangered wild animals such as Chinese sturgeon and xī turtles, which are released into the sea.
In Zhoushan, there is a famous dish called "vinegar slippery shark soup".
Some sharks can be eaten, Zhoushan vegetable market common some small sharks, after buying with boiling water rinsed, scale to remove the odor, with boiling water a little scrubbing, remove the sand on the fish skin, and then chop, add tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and so on together to burn.
At present, there are three kinds of sharks listed in wildlife protection, whale sharks, basking sharks, and great white sharks (man-eating sharks), which have very obvious characteristics and very small numbers.
Finally, there are two other species that are not included in the protected animals but cannot be eaten – namely puffer fish and weave snails, which are strictly forbidden to eat because they are highly toxic.
In a few days, the fishing ban period will arrive, the price of seafood will rise in the vegetable farm, eat seafood into the countdown, seize the last few days!
(The original title was "2 men in Zhejiang bought this seafood, and before they could eat it, they were arrested and detained!") It used to be at wedding banquets, but I was just promoted to national security in February this year. Edited by Ding Shan)