In different places, the long-snout is called differently, Shanghai is called "catfish", Sichuan is called "Jiangtuan", and Guizhou is called "Xiyu". Xiaobian has interned in Hubei national long-snout breeding farm, and has a certain understanding of the fish, so let's briefly introduce it for everyone.
(1) Categorical status
Leiocassis longirostris is a genus of catfish, catfish family, catfish genus, local name River tuan, catfish. Giraffe is a freshwater economic fish with a wide distribution in China's freshwater water bodies.
(2) Life habits
It is a warm-water benthic fish with a docile temperament, not good at drilling and jumping, and easy to catch. During the day, it prefers to inhabit the bottom or corner of the water body, and at night, it swims to the upper layer of the water body to feed, and has a strong adaptability to the ecological and environmental conditions. Under natural conditions, the long-snout is often found in a slow,rocky environment in rivers. In autumn and winter, low temperatures often overwinter in deep rivers, lake caves, and stone crevices.
(3) Eating habits
Longnose is a carnivorous demersal fish, under natural conditions, likes to eat small fish, shrimp, loach, aquatic earthworm, snail mussel meat, etc., like night predation. Artificial feed can be ingested entirely under artificial rearing conditions.
(4) Reproductive habits
The sexual maturity period is 3 years old, the male is larger than the female, spawning in April to June every year, and the amount of eggs carried varies from 100,000 to 100,000. The eggs are yellow and extremely sticky.
(5) Pen holder fish belly
Speaking of long-snouted fish belly, long-snout fish belly has a tender and delicious flesh, rich in nutrients, and the fish is fat and can be processed into precious fish maw. Beacon fish maw refers to the shishou specialty food made of shishou fish maw as raw material by traditional craftsmanship, and the meat is tender and delicious. On October 26, 2011, Shishou City's exclusive product "Beacon Fish Belly" was registered as a national geographical indication certification trademark by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The reason why the pen frame fish maw is as expensive as gold is that the quality is the best quality of the fish maw; the other is that the output is extremely limited. Beacon fish belly is the maw in the belly of the Yangtze River stone head catfish. This swim bladder is very unique, looks like a pen holder, color like white jade, picks up tender as fat, heavy and smooth, soft and sweet to eat, melts in the mouth, easy to absorb. Rich in high-grade collagen, a variety of amino acids, vitamins and trace elements. Shishou catfish is a specialty of the Huiliu Bay in the Shishou River section of the Yangtze River, and the uniqueness of the place of production determines the limited production, even if it is exhausted and fished, it cannot satisfy the curiosity of the world to taste the belly of the beacon fish.