Recently, anglers in many parts of Sichuan said that recently they will always catch sunfish, which is not small, and some people have caught more than a hundred a day, which seems to have an explosive growth trend. In fact, as early as April this year, in a river channel in Taizhou, Zhejiang, there are also anglers found a large number of sunfish, according to the local fishing friends, this should be someone deliberately released into the river, but after a year or two of breeding, now the river has been everywhere. Where the sunfish in Sichuan come from is still uncertain, but Sichuan netizens said that no matter what the source is, they will never let it come out of Sichuan alive.
Sunfish are freshwater fish native to the southern United States and northern Mexico, generally 12-20 cm long, large can grow to 2 kg, small generally about 100 g. Most have bright markings and luster, hence the name. Every time a wild sunfish appears, it will attract the attention of experts and scholars, because it is a fish with a bad track record and nothing but delicious.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > adaptable, fierce, love to eat fish eggs</h1>
Sunfish are adaptable, can survive at water temperatures of 1 to 38 °C, and can hibernate on their own when the water temperature is below 2 °C to resist cold and lack of food.
Sunfish are omnivorous, have extremely broad diets, and are very ferocious. According to the description of the angler, it quickly ate the corn when it went in, picked up a stone the size of a fingernail and threw it in, and it would chase and bite twice, and the small fish and shrimp in the water were also its food.
However, its most harmful is the fish eggs that like to eat other fish, especially the eggs of crucian carp and carp, most of which are produced in shallow water areas with slow water flow, and it is easy to be eaten by swarms of sunfish. Therefore, crucian carp and carp cannot compete with the sunfish at all, and it will not be long before they will be eliminated by the sunfish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > reproduces so fast that it was once widespread in Japan, and the Emperor apologized for it</h1>
The reproductive ability of sunfish is very strong, the female fish can lay 10,000-60,000 eggs at a time, the male will dig a nest on the seabed, and when the female fish that is about to spawn swim over, the male will hurry to spawn it, if it feels that the eggs laid by the female fish are not enough, it will catch another one to lay eggs. The female leaves after laying her eggs, while the males stay in the nest until the eggs hatch into seedlings, which is the opposite of other fish, both the male and female play an important role in breeding offspring, which is an important reason why the sunfish can reproduce so quickly.
In 1960, Emperor Akihito, who was still crown prince, visited the United States, and the mayor of Chicago at the time, not knowing for what purpose, gave him a sunfish as a gift. After tasting it, he thought that the fish was quite good, and when he returned home, he brought some of it to a fishery research institute in Japan, hoping to make the sunfish breed and survive in Japan successfully, so that ordinary people can also eat this delicacy.
The institute carefully bred the fish brought back by the prince, and soon produced thousands of sunfish, and sent more than 1,400 to local officials to taste. After that, they put the sunfish in Japan's largest lake, Lake Biwa, for breeding.
However, the crown prince and the research institute thought things were too simple, and then by about 2000, the sunfish multiplied too fast, almost occupying large and small lakes, and could not control it, and the Moat of the Tokyo Imperial Palace became their territory. The living space of local fish has been squeezed madly, and Japan's precious fish, the trout, is about to be forced to the end of the road. Emperor Akihito expressed great regret and said, "I brought the sunfish back to let everyone taste delicious, but the current situation makes me very sad. ”
Later, some parts of Japan began to organize "fishing, eating fish" activities, encouraging people not to release the sunfish after catching, must eat, and also issued a recipe and eating guide for sunfish. To some extent, the flood of sunfish has been curbed, but it has not been completely solved.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > less prickly and tender, and foodies have begun to drool</h1>
Sunfish look very fierce, breeding speed is fast, if a large number of invasions into our country will have a very great harm to our water environment. But fortunately, it has a fatal weakness that it is delicious, nutritious, and has fewer thorns and more meat. Rich in calcium, iron, phosphorus, sodium, potassium and other trace elements, crude protein content of nearly 19%, can be listed as a tonic food, especially suitable for women and children to eat.
Fried sunfish
Seeing the sunfish invading Sichuan, Netizens in Guangdong expressed great envy, after all, this fish sells more than 20 pounds in Guangdong, and it is also a hybrid breed of artificial breeding, and it does not have a pure wild taste. In some parts of Sichuan, such as Zigong netizens, they have already arrived in Chengdu, and when they can get to Zigong, they can't wait. Everyone began to open the recipe and look for the way the sunfish were...
Steamed sunfish
Braised sunfish
In the face of the invasion of sunfish, netizens are generally more optimistic, after all, in our country the invasion of failed species abound, want to survive in our country, there are three major taboos can not be committed, delicious, large supplement, can cure diseases. The sunfish have at least committed two taboos, and it is indeed difficult to flood it.
However, although experts also said that the sunfish have not been flooded, but we still have to pay some attention, can not be blindly optimistic, once the sunfish breed to a certain scale is difficult to control, especially now the Yangtze River fishing ban for 10 years, if the real invasion of the Yangtze River and free breeding for 10 years caused by the harm is incalculable.