Han Shunzhao, a reporter of the Wenda Dalian News media group, and Gao Qiang, a reporter of the Dalian News media group
After autumn, more and more people are fishing on the shore. The highest fish rate this season is the fathead fish on the Bohai coast. Although the fathead fish is commonplace, not many people can call out its name. To this end, we invited Huang Shengguo, deputy secretary general of dalian fishing association and Chinese sea fishing master, to introduce the fathead fish that tastes delicious and is very cheap.
◆ What is the scientific name of the fathead fish?
The fathead is a very small carnivorous fish. It belongs to a type of gobies, and the correct name should be yellow-tipped gobies. Because of its large head and small body, people call it fathead fish. The fathead fish has mucus on its body and is very smooth, so some people call it a shiny fish.
◆ What are the characteristics of the appearance of fathead fish?
Fathead fish are characterized by their slender body and small body size. There are two ridge fins. The first has several tiny spines, a series of small sensory organs on the head and sides, a rounded tail, and bright colors all over the body.
The fathead fish is distinguished by the fact that its ventral fins merge into one, forming a suction cup-like structure. This structure is very adapted to intertidal environments, and when large waves hit, they can keep fathead fish tightly attached to rocks or other fixed objects without being washed away.
◆ How long can fathead fish live?
Natural selection. Fathead fish are one year old, and few live to the second year. In winter, the fathead swims to the deep sea for the winter, at this time, it is already fat and round, full of fat. The following spring it migrates to shallow waters to spawn, most of them die after spawning, there are few survivors, and adult fish of two winter ages are relatively rare. After months of growing and eating wildly, the small fish can grow to 40 cm long and weigh about 250 g by November.
◆ What are the interesting legends of fathead fish?
There is also a folk legend about the lifespan of fathead fish.
At that time, the Dragon King summoned the fish of the Aquarium to a meeting to determine their lifespan. Yellow croaker, knife fish, mackerel, blackfish, etc. were involved, including fathead fish. The Dragon King asked the fish how many years they wanted to live. The fish said according to their own situation, three years, five years, eight years and ten years. After hearing this, the Dragon King felt that the fish's request was very practical, so he agreed to it.
At this time, the fathead fish thought to himself, I am much faster than you, I should be the king of the fish. So he blurted out, "I am one foot long in a year, one foot in ten years, and thirty years to catch up with the old Dragon King." ”
The Dragon King was shocked when he heard this, and then he was furious: "You were born and died that year." "In this way, the fathead fish fell into the fate of being born and dying that year."
◆ Are fatheads and sea catfish related?
Fatheads and sea catfish belong to the same genus Perch. Sea catfish are in the family Lyceumidae, and fatheads are in the family Gobies. Although they look alike, they are still very well distinguished.
Sea catfish have large heads, large clefts and fine teeth. The eyes are small and the eye space is wide and flat. The body shape is sub-cylindrical, with a thick anterior part and a slightly flattened tail. The body is covered with small ctenophores, the body skin is smooth and attached to thick mucus, the back is brownish gray, the abdomen is milky white, and the ventral fins are connected in a round shape, which has the function of suction cups and can fix the body on stones. During sexual maturity, the abdomen is pale yellow and the ventral fins are reddish. The general body length is 25 to 30 cm, the tail weight is 150 to 200 grams, the maximum individual body length can reach more than 50 cm, and the tail weight exceeds 500 grams.
◆ What life habits of the fathead fish have become its "Achilles heel"?
Fathead fish are bottom handle fish, a large number, and easy to catch, there are many places to fish.
Fathead fish like to eat shrimp, and the large number of shrimp farms on the sea provides a sufficient and delicious food for fathead fish, which is a good fishing spot near the gate outside the shrimp pond and in the drainage ditch.
At high tide, fathead fish rush to the shore with the tide to feed, then the shore is easy to fish, and at low tide, fathead fish return to the sea with the tide, then the fishing point should reach the sea.
Fatheads like to inhabit shallow rocks and sediment, and these places should be good places for fishing.
At the mouth of the river, salty and fresh water are mixed, the bait is abundant, and the fathead fish are clustered.
◆ What is the nutritional value of fathead fish?
Fathead fish is rich in vitamin A content in meat, which can promote human skin metabolism, make it maintain elasticity and tenderness, and have the effect of beauty and beauty. Fathead fish has a low cholesterol content, rich in rich nutritional elements, after eating can improve people's intelligence and memory, but also to refresh the brain, prevent aging, etc., is conducive to anemia, malnutrition, physical weakness and neurasthenia and other people.
◆ Who should not eat fathead fish?
Although the nutritional value of fathead fish is relatively high, and the price is also cheap, but it is also a hair product, if you suffer from scabies, eczema and other skin diseases or skin allergies, these people are best not to eat, otherwise it will aggravate the disease.
◆ How to cook fathead fish?
Fat head fish meat is delicious and tender, a thorn in the meat, no scales to clean up, go to the gills to remove the internal organs, the fish head must not be thrown, the two pieces of meat on the gills on both sides are extremely delicious, usually when the fat head fish is on the table, the first chopsticks of the diners will eat the protruding lump meat clip on the gills of the fish. It should be noted that the black membrane in the belly of the fathead fish must be removed, it is bitter in taste, and it also contains impurities that are not good for health.
After the fathead fish is caught, it is generally divided into three categories according to the large, medium and small.
Large sizes are used for simmering or sautéing peppers.
Medium-sized anglers will generally dry them into dried fathead fish - the fathead fish is cleaned up, wiped with salt all over the fish body, plus pepper, large ingredients, peppers, cooking wine after grasping, yard in the bottom of the gap in the curtain or steaming drawer, placed in a ventilated place, in the case of good weather for two or three days, dry fathead fish dried is easy to preserve, when you want to eat at any time. If you want to cook, you can soak it soft and drain it, steam it in a drawer, fry it in a frying pan, bake it in the oven, or fry it in oil. Dried fathead fish has a chewy head, but does not lose the fresh flavor of the fish, and is also a "ration" that is commonly stored by Dalian people in autumn and winter.
The smaller fat head is directly fried and eaten, and the taste is the most beautiful. Fry the fathead fish with a brine of salt, add a little pepper, simmer for a few minutes and then strip down the hot oil pan, fry the golden brown when the dry oil is fished out and put on the plate.
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1. Heat a small amount of soybean oil in a large spoon of cold pot, put green onion, ginger slices, peppercorns, large ingredients, and put a few dried peppers when the aroma of the pot bursts;
2. Put in the fathead fish that has been washed and drained, shake the large spoon of the anti-stick pan, and fry the side of the fish paste the pan evenly and then turn the spoon over;
3. Continue to fry the other side with a spoonful of oil, and cook vinegar, add soy sauce, and add a small bowl of sauce diluted with water;
4. Pour a little hot water into the side of the pot until the fish has just passed, change the heat, cover the pot and simmer, wait for the taste;
After about 5.5 minutes, remove the pot, put a little MSG, put it out of the pot and plate it, and garnish with a small amount of green onion and parsley.
Source: Dalian Evening News