Yangtze River Jun: Although the species of wild fish, shrimp and aquariums in the small ditches in rural areas are very rich, they are suitable for fishing, generally that is, crucian carp, carp, catfish and other conventional fish species.
Recently, a fellow villager in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, was fishing in a small ditch in the countryside, and he caught a strange fish that he had never seen before, which looked like a "white snake"...
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Catching a "white snake" in a small ditch
According to the fellow in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, he was hanging earthworms with a hand rod and fishing in a small ditch, originally just "wanted to catch a few crucian carp to eat at night", but did not expect to catch a "strange fish" that had never been seen before.
"At first I thought I had caught a snake, twisted around on the fishing line, and then looked closely, what is it, like a loach and like a white snake."
Master Yang, a fellow villager in Taizhou, said that at that time, he was also "ignorant", and he did not expect that there was such a fish in the small ditch in the countryside of Taizhou.
Yangtze River Jun: The "white snake" said by the villagers is actually a rare wild fish - river eel, also known as green eel, white eel, creek eel, etc. in the folk, generally inhabit lakes and small rivers with gentle water flow.
This Taizhou fellow caught river eels in this kind of small ditch, which can be said to be very rare, and it seems that the local ecological environment is really good (river eels have high requirements for the ecological environment).
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Fished 5 in one week
What is even more unexpected is that the river eel above is not the only one - in the next few days, the fellow has fished for 5 large and small river eels in this small ditch and downstream channel.
In the next few days, 4 more were fished
"A total of 5 fished, the largest has 1 and a half pounds, all of them are fished with earthworms, all are dead mouths, at first I thought I couldn't feed it, (after a few days) it was all good."
This fellow master Yang sighed that when the hook was picked, the fish's mouth was all blood, and as a result, it was raised for a week, and none of it died, and I really did not expect that the vitality of this fish was so strong.
And he took these fish to the wet market and asked the fishmonger, and the fishmonger said, "This thing should be at least more than 100 pounds", and the fellow was very happy to hear it.
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Netizen: At least worth thousands
Are these river eels really worth as much as the fishmongers say?
In fact, wild river eel can be said to be one of the "most expensive" fish in China's freshwater, and even once hyped by merchants as "ginseng in the water", extremely said to have its nutritional value and edible value.
Therefore, some netizens even said after reading it, "These are at least thousands, fellow countrymen, can you tell where the fishing point is"...
Fishing to catch river eels, is indeed a small probability event, this fellow actually caught more than one in a row, it is no wonder that this fellow received many netizens "envy and envy hate".
However, what surprised Yangtze River Jun even more was that there were so many river eels in the small river ditches in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, and it should be known that only a few years ago, these "water ginseng" were almost disappeared...
Wild river eels once nearly disappeared – infographic
It seems that in the Yangtze River Basin ban on fishing and the strict crackdown on electric fish and medicinal fish, this precious strange fish population recovered rapidly.
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Where did so many river eels come from?
Yangtze River Jun's note: River eels are brackish and freshwater amphibians, breeding in the sea, river eel fry grow to a certain extent, will swim from the mouth of the sea into the freshwater rivers to roost and grow.
River eels in migration - infographic
Therefore, Yangtze River Jun believes that these river eels in the small ditches in Taizhou are most likely swimming into the Tang River from the mouth of the Yangtze River during the rise of the Yangtze River this year, and with the end of the flood season, these flocks of river eels are trapped in ditches large and small...
Of course, every year, a large number of river eels will swim inland, but if the ecological environment is not good, electric fish, medicine fish, ground cages and other indiscriminate fishing activities prevail, these river eels are also difficult to survive.
Therefore, from the perspective of this Taizhou fellow who has fished for river eels one after another, the local ecological environment is really good and gratifying.
And what is commendable is that this fellow also said that "consider releasing the three small ones and letting them go to the river to have more cubs"...
Netizens, in your local rivers, is there such a strange fish? #野钓 #