A very interesting phenomenon, as we all know, there are a lot of foodies in our country, and even many insects can be made into food, but they are extremely disgusted with the overflowing scavengers.
However, when we look at the world, we can be surprised to findScavengers are not enough to eat in India!What's going on?
The scientific name of the scavenger is leopard fat catfish, which is native to South America, and from the unearthed fossils, the scavenger has survived on the earth for more than 5.1 million years.
At first, scavengers also experienced a dark period, that is, from the Pliocene to the Miocene, a large number of carnivores fed on scavengers out of pressure to surviveIn the course of their subsequent evolution, the scavengers continued to strengthen their "defenses" and succeeded in giving birth to a hard exoskeleton with more than 85% calcium.
Not only did the scavengers become hard, but they also had less meat, and the carnivores began to dislike them, which allowed them to survive for so long.
At first, our country found that the texture of the scavenger was not bad, the black, white and gray skin color, and there was a different color in the water, and many people were very distressed at that time, and they were worried about how to clean the fish tank, and it was not realistic to do it manually all day longIt is said that this fish can clean the garbage in the fish tank, and slowly, the scavenger has another name, that is, "garbage fish".
In this way, the scavenger successfully entered our country under the cloak of "clean", but it didn't take long for everyone to find out that the scavenger not only eats algae,They even eat the eggs and fry of other fishWhat's even more frightening is that while other fish are resting, the scavengers will take the opportunity to open their mouths and firmly suck the mucous membranes on their bodies, causing the ornamental fish to die from infected wounds.
One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, everyone began to refuse to buy scavengers, so the aquarium shop owners and individual customers threw the excess scavengers directly into the nearby river, and the scavengers were very survivable, they began to ho wild fish, can eat 5,000 fish eggs a day, seriously damaged the ecological balance of fish in China's rivers.
When I arrived at the Chinese scavengers, I finally realized what it means to "leap by the fish", they multiplied wildly, and soon reached the point of "flooding", why?
On the one hand, the scavengers have strong survivability and combat ability, and on the other hand, there is a lack of species that prey on scavengers in China, such as crocodiles and herons.
Also, many people actually release scavengers!
On September 10, 2022, three men in Guangxi actually released several large bags of scavengers in the Baise Chengbi Lake Reservoir, and after being arrested, they said that the owner of the fish seller said that this fish could clean up the garbage at the bottom of the river, so let them buy it
So can we follow the method of "eliminating crayfish" and rely on "eating" to solve the problem of scavenger overflow?
Obviously, it is impossible, as mentioned above, the bones of the scavenger are hard, accounting for a large proportion, and the meat yield is only 17%, which is much lower than the 30% to 40% of other fish, and the omnivorous characteristics lead to more harmful substances in the body of the scavenger.
This doesn't work, that doesn't work, can you only use a trick?
The last time I visited a classmate, I accidentally talked about hairy crabs, and he said that many hairy crabs that can't be sold, or some are broken, will be ground into crab powder and added to seasoning feed.
In the same way, can we catch scavengers and make them into fishmeal as well?
At present, China's cattle and sheep feed, mainly silage-based, add little fishmeal, and the wild scavengers can not guarantee health problems, indiscriminately made into fishmeal, not only this move, but may induce other crises, so the current way to curb the scavengers mainly rely on concentrated fishing and artificial landfills.
If you were to choose between eating catfish or scavengers, everyone would like to eat catfish, but Indians are different, they choose to eat scavengers.
What does a catfish look like when it floods the Ganges?There are even catfish that jump ashore without the need for Indians to catch them with nets, they take the initiative to jump in front of them, but Indians just don't eat catfish.
One of the reasons is religion, India has the custom of water burial, what happens when a human body sinks into the water, presumably needless to say, and catfish invaded the Ganges River longer than scavengers, so Indians are already very resistant to catfish in their hearts.
But the Indians were not shy about the scavengers that invaded later, and said that because the scavengers invaded later than catfish, they had fewer toxins in their bodies.
There is also a need for meat among the grassroots people in India, but due to economic pressures, they tend to eat vegetarian dishes or catch some meat from nature, and scavengers are the wild meat of many Indians**.
In addition, Indian cooking likes to make a paste and add a lot of spices, even if the meat quality of the scavenger is very poor, it can also be "relished" under the processing of "paste" and "spices", but if it is done with Chinese cooking techniques, such as "steaming", etc., it is difficult to make the scavenger into a delicacy, so the national conditions are different, and it is understandable that Indians like to eat scavengers.