The totoaba family is an important family of seafood fish. The family includes the world's most expensive edible fish, several high-priced local seafood fish, and also several small offshore fish species that are widely popular in all seasons, with abundant yields and low taste.
The head of the group is called Guyu
The head of the regiment is called Guyu (Johnius amblycephalus)
The two above pictures are called the head of the group called the fish, the one on the right catches up with the trend and becomes a golden one, but it is not a yellow fish, pay attention to the distinction.
Pi's name is Guyu
Johnius belangerii
Du's name is Guyu
Johnius dussumieri
The scaly fins are called fish
Scaly fin called Johnius distinctus
The above four species of fish look more similar, and they are all called the genus of totoabas. These four species of fish are commonly known as net fish, puff head, red head, and red head turtle. Why did it become called Guyu? Because its maws can make sounds, especially during reproduction, the sound is particularly loud, making a grunting sound, like the sound of a frog. But fish that look like totoabas can make grunting sounds. In the totoaba family, these are cheap seafood with a good and sweet taste, distributed along the coast of the whole country, and are very productive all year round. Wild yellow croaker is too expensive, you can eat this wild called gu fish, the taste is very similar to yellow croaker, the key price is cheap.
Silver Fish
Pennahia argentata
Big-headed silver fish
Pennahia macrocephalus
These are the two brothers of the genus Silver Gu in the totoaba family, and they look similar to those called Gu Fish, but the Silver Gu Fish has a larger head and a more silvery color. It is also a kind of seafood of good quality and low price. This fish tastes more like yellow croaker than the fish, and is a good substitute for wild yellow croaker, but it is not very large like the fish.
Red Teeth
Red tooth is also known as red three teeth, three teeth. It is named after its three long fangs.
Spiny plumtail
Small yellow croaker
Large yellow croaker
The spiny plumtail belongs to the genus Officinalis, and the large yellow croaker and the small yellowfish belong to the yellowfish genus. The three kinds of fish look very similar, how to distinguish between please poke another article before: large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, plum boy fish three kinds of confusing fish cognition, and how to distinguish
Yellow croaker
Yellow Custard (Spring Only)
Yellow girl fish, also known as Chunzi, Chun only. It looks a lot like a fish, but it is much larger than a fish. The meat quality is comparable to that of yellow croaker, and it is inherently said that "only the golden dragon is fake in February spring", which means that the fatness of the yellow fish in February can be compared to that of the large yellow croaker. It is a relatively high-end (expensive) seafood fish.
Light-colored yellowtail
Nibea coibor
Another kind of fish in the genus Huanggu: light-colored Huanggu, commonly known as white flower fish, Fujian and Guangdong are called red jacket and red wo. This fish is relatively rare in the wild, but it is very much farmed in the Fujian-Guangdong region. The main value lies in the fish maw, whose fish maw is called white flower glue, which is of great value. The fish is relatively sparse and not very tasty.
Eye-spotted totoaba
Sciaenops ocellatus
The spotted toaba is also known as the red ancient and American red fish. It is characterized by 1 to 4 black dots on the tail, as shown above. It is a cultured species imported from abroad into China. Due to the leakage of aquaculture cages, they are spread all over the coastal areas of our country. Its yield is high, the value is very low, the meat is thin and rotten, and the taste is very poor.
Catfish
Catfish, also known as rice fish, life fish, bass, bass. This fish is easier to recognize when it was a child, and when it grows up, it is very similar to the brown-haired trout (red-billed magnum), and it is not easy to identify.
Japanese white gugu fish
Japanese White Fish ( Argyrosomus japonicus )
Japanese white gugu is also known as Japanese silver body bass, green perch (South Australia). This is a large totoaba. It is more than 180cm long and weighs 75kg. The production is very rich, and various fisheries can catch large quantities, and their maws are relatively small and of low value. Fish is more chai, the taste is poor, suitable for pickling and frying, fresh fish smell is very heavy. There are many marine fish ponds along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong to cultivate this fish.
Brown hairy monsoon
Brown hairy eel, commonly known as red-billed eel, stone magnum, black magnum. Its fish maw is brown mackerel due to its two rows of fluff. This fish gel is expensive, second only to yellow-lipped fish. Fish is more chai and fishy, and is mostly used as a pickled product. There is a lot of coastal aquaculture in Fujian and Guangdong.
Yellow-lipped fish
Yellow-lipped fish (Bahaba taipingensis)
Yellow-lipped fish is also known as the money eel. It is very rare, and some fishermen have never seen fishing in their entire lives, but they can't be found. Sky-high local fish, the whole body is a treasure, the world's most expensive edible fish should be it.