In May 2021, a man was sentenced to two years in prison and fined more than 3 million yuan for nearly four months to catch a small fish that can run and jump for nearly four months. Seeing this, someone wondered? What kind of fish is this, can it run or jump? Also, if a man catches a fish with strength, why is he wrapped up in a bag?
In this issue, we will talk about this kind of small fish that will be parkour, mudskipper fish. Of course, friends who often watch Ben Meow's videos have seen big scenes. There is nothing unusual about the walking fish, after all, in that period of the desert fish, we met the climbing perch who played a 1-kilometer hike without a word, and the smooth and tender flesh of the water slightly touched the big brother of the blackfish that could instantly evoke memories.
Green mudskipper
But the mudskipper is more magical, its crawling skills are more advanced than the two big brothers, it is a kind of fairy species that can even walk, mate and breed on land, they can only dry the helplessness of the dead fish eyes once they change the fish ashore, relying on the two strong abdominal fin muscles on the left and right to move back and forth, they can crawl forward on the mud.
Mudskippers
Big mudskipper
And the skill of fishtail bouncing is even more unique, through the pectoral fin contraction and twisting into an S-shaped tail at the same time, mudskippers can bounce forward 1 meter or bounce up 5 cm high, so mudskippers are also called jumping fish. Mudskippers are mainly distributed along the beach, as well as semi-salty water estuarine swampy area, China has 3 genera of 9 species, common are mudskipper, large mudskipper, green mudskipper.
Mudskipper jumps
Although the distance for the mudskipper to jump forward is only a small step for humans, it is a big step in the evolutionary history of fish, and it is important to know that as long as most fish leave the water, Jesus cannot save it. So in order to practice the running and jumping skills, in the past 300 million years, mudskippers have made a lot of interesting modifications to their bodies.
For example, after leaving the water, they will maintain a considerable amount of seawater in the throat in front of the gills, and when it is moist, its gills can breathe air directly, and the mudskipper has even evolved a similar ability to frogs, which is to breathe with skin and tail fins.
At the same time, in order to prevent the sun from burning the eyeballs, the mudskipper also intimately arranged two water-storing eye sockets under the eyes, the eyes are dry, and the eyeballs are put into the eye sockets to soak, which is really better than the one-key car lamp washing function. The left and right ventral fins have been compounded into a small suction cup, which not only helps them to firmly adhere to the reef and prevent them from being swept away by the waves, but also can easily cope with various complex terrains.
But if there is any negligence in bouncing mudskippers on the road of evolution, it is to forget to evolve yourself to be a little unpalatable. Although the mudskipper is small, it is delicious, smooth and delicious, known as "sea ginseng" in Japan, and in the eyes of many Chinese people, the mudskipper is agile and vigorous, full of vitality, and is a proper big supplement. In particular, the flesh of the mudskipper fish is light and fishy during the winter season, so there is also the saying of "jumping fish in winter and racing river eels".
Fortunately, the mudskippers are agile, ordinary people go to catch, basically people have not yet approached, they have long escaped without a trace. But how to say that sentence, you are strong, you are strong, I like stew. So as long as humans feed your body, even the most difficult animals will be arranged clearly.
Seasoned fishermen will bury short bamboo tubes in the mudflats, and when the mud fish are frightened and flee, they will burrow into the bamboo tubes to escape, becoming turtles in urns. More skilled fishermen, armed with a fishing rod and throwing the hook from seven or eight meters away, can accurately hook a confused mudskipper.
Fish for mudskippers
In Guangdong, where mudskippers are widely distributed, Cantonese people with light tastes like to take mudskippers to stew soup, which tastes fresh and sweet and delicious. And Fujian folk are circulating a oolong drill tofu, the live mudskipper and tofu together boiled, the fish will be heated into the tofu, after ripening solidified in it, with chopsticks to open the tofu, you can see that some of the mudskipper for a violent sprint, some as a head swing tail, some as a bow body to bounce, some as a straight waist, anyway, different forms, black and white, these small fish death is tragic, it is really sad for the smeller, the seer drools, a mouthful is full of fresh sweetness.
Because it is popular with diners, the price of mudskipper fish is naturally rising, so there are naturally many people who catch mudskipper and sell it for money. Speaking of this, many friends wondered again, to be reasonable, this mudskipper is not a protective animal? How did the man get sentenced at the beginning?
It turns out that mudskipper is not only a delicious ingredient for human beings, but also an indispensable survival ration for many migratory birds and shrimp and crabs, and men's large-scale catch of mudskipper not only destroys the food source of migratory birds, but also brings a series of adverse chain reactions to the ecology. More importantly, the place where the man fishes is the Yangtze River Knife Fish National Aquatic Germplasm Resources Conservation Area, which is a fishing ban area, so this man is naturally unable to escape the fate of eating and wrapping up.
Of course, some people may think that catching a fish should also sit through the bottom of the prison, which is a bit of a fuss, right? In fact, there is nothing wrong with catching fish, but if you only know that greed and excessive demand, it will only accelerate the depletion of natural resources. Do you know the sky-high price of knife fish for 8,000 yuan a pound? Once upon a time, they produced more than 3,700 tons a year, sometimes catching up with good years, and "no one bought it, only cats" were fed.
Yangtze River knifefish
However, due to overfishing and pollution in recent years, although the price of KnifeFish in the Yangtze River has reached new highs, it is increasingly difficult for people to see them, and sometimes it is difficult for several fishing boats to catch a river knife for several days. Perhaps for everyone, what feels more deeply is the hometown river in the memory, under the multiple blows of electric fish, fried fish and the net, is she still as interesting as she was at the beginning?
Perhaps there are more restrictions for our generation, such as the ban on electric fish frying, the ban on fishing in the Yangtze River knifefish, the Yangtze River entering a ten-year fishing ban period, etc., but the purpose of these is not to make us not eat fish, but to let us and our children and grandchildren eat more and better fish in the future!