Chapter 137 - 125: The Rare Military Fish
And then, knowledge about the fish immediately floated through his mind.
"Wow, Brother Yang, you caught a fish so quickly? What kind of fish is this? It looks pretty nice," said Yue’er, who stopped taking photos and walked over as she saw Lin Yang pulling in a fish.
"This is a stream grouper, scientifically known as light-lipped fish, and not the kind of grouper from the sea. This fish typically only grows this big. It’s a species with a relatively wide distribution in the south, not very rare, but also not commonly seen nowadays. The presence of stream groupers in this lake indicates that the water quality is quite good," Lin Yang explained with a smile as he put the fish into the fish keeper.
Light-lipped fish are widely distributed throughout the country, almost throughout all southern water systems, and are categorized by body size and shape, including the Rainbow Light-lip Fish, Thick-lipped Light-lipped Fish, Half-spined Lightlip Fish, Wen City Light Lip Fish, Nan Zhao Guangchun Fish, and Long-finned Light-lipped Fish that Lin Yang had just caught.
This fish is not a protected species, and its reproduction faces no issues whatsoever.
However, the eggs of this fish are toxic. Consumption by humans can lead to vomiting and diarrhea, and it can be fatal for cats, dogs, and other fish in the water.
Therefore, their juveniles tend to have quite a high survival rate; the only real threats to them are water quality and pollution.
As this fish has high demands for water quality, that’s why this originally inexpensive little weak fish, now sells for up to two hundred yuan per jin (approximately 500 grams) for sizes of around one or two jin, not far off from the prices for ground tigers he caught before.
Protecting this species is quite easy: simply maintain a clean water environment, and the numbers of the fish will steadily increase. It’s not a difficult problem to solve.