My father was a fishing enthusiast and a fish lover. He made a large fish tank to order and bought various accessories. He said that he would use the "BMW" configuration to assemble the fish tank. Looking at the fish he exchanged from aquarists everywhere, he called it "native fish", and I called it "wild fish". Every year he goes all over the country to collect native fish.
Among them, the Penang River in Tengchong, Yunnan Has a kind of small fish is very special, flat body, large head and tail, the head is particularly flat, because the head of the fish is particularly large and named "big head fish", there are also people because of the flat shape of the head, the chest is wide and flat and often pasted in the bottom of the river stone cracks, the local people call it: tiger fish, aircraft fish and so on. It mainly feeds on insect larvae, such as larvae of ephemera, pinnate, hairy wing, dragonfly, diptera and other insects. Their real scientific name is the tattooed pectoral catfish, which is an extremely rare and precious fish species.
Their bodies are dark grey with a slight green tinge and a pale yellow ventral surface. Each fin is orange-red; there is a dark spot in the center of the dorsal fin; the center of the caudal fin has dark patches, and the central round nest is fleshy white. Compared with other fish, the striped-breasted bass has a different habit, that is, their "nest". They prefer rushing water and live in valley rapids, usually two or three adsorbed on a rock. With their belly facing up against the stones, these guys don't like to move and suck in one position for a few days. Just look at how flat their bellies are, like a suction cup.
Due to the tenderness, delicious taste and high fat content of the striped breast meat, the economic value is higher, and the price of wild tattooed pectoral catfish in some places goes to hundreds of yuan a catty, which is not common. Adults can grow to about a kilogram, and I have about 200 grams of this one in my hand, which is relatively large in the family Baculidae.
Because the living environment is relatively fixed, the villagers are extremely fond of catching tattooed corsets for consumption, and grilled corsets are also one of the rare local delicacies. In the past, the most common method used by villagers was to use the dustpan end to estimate which stone had a tattooed chest, so they put the dustpan in the water and quietly moved it to the side of the stone, and the other person slowly rushed the striated chest to the side of the dustpan from the other side, or turned over the stone, taking advantage of the ripples of the water when turning over the stone and stirring the mud and sand under the stone There was a burst of turbidity, and the striated chest fish would flee to the dustpan in a panic, and when the dustpan was lifted, it would catch a striped chest, and even two or three when luck was good.
Nowadays, the tattooed breast is also decreasing, and now go out with the fishermen to catch fish for a day, good luck may be one or two, bad luck you know. At present, the artificial breeding of bass fish is still in a state of no breakthrough, which makes people inevitably worry a little more about this fish.