Are foreigners eating crayfish?

[ Agricultural Network] Does a foreigner eat crayfish ? This is a very interesting question.

Pictured is a crayfish seedling , provided by the member

As for crayfish, there is a well-known rumor that the Japanese brought the crayfish to China. Due to the need to deal with a large number of corpses, the Japanese biochemical unit transformed the crayfish into a crayfish through a series of genetic transformations. At that time, the Japanese invaders were inhuman, how could they invest? With such an environmentally friendly approach?

At that time the Japanese came to China crayfish may be the answer is yes, but as cattle frog bait or other purposes.

According to the data, there are four original authentic crayfish in China: Northeast Black Crawfish, Nanjing Black Crawfish, C. serrata and Korean Black Crawfish. The crayfish we are talking about is the native American crayfish, which has a strong reproductive capacity and strong environmental adaptability. It has become a Chinese crayfish.

Therefore, the United States is a country where crayfish breeds Z early. The breeding mode adopted by the United States is mainly to “cultivate rice and raise shrimp”, that is, transplanting rice in rice fields, and then flooding the straw immediately after the rice is maturely harvested, and then placing the crayfish seedlings, and the flooded rice straw directly or indirectly as the crayfish Feed source.

Foreigners eat crayfish (picture from Oriental IC, copyright belongs to the original author)

According to some data, the National Research Council emphasized the development of freshwater crayfish in 1978. At that time, freshwater crayfish had become an important aquatic resource; Australia began farming and research on freshwater crayfish in 1961; European development of freshwater crayfish Earlier, in the early years of the Republic of China, there were written records of Europeans eating lobsters, and the amount of crayfish caught was quite high.

After the 1960s, Finland, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Poland and the former Soviet Union have vigorously developed crayfish farming . In the 1970s, they introduced the broad crustacean, the turkish crayfish, and the crayfish. In the early 1980s, European countries such as France, Britain, and Spain introduced Merlot crayfish from Australia. In the 1990s, they introduced red crayfish from Australia, actively developed crawfish farming, and restored crawfish resources.

Sweden from 1969 to 1986 for 18 years in a row to the lakes, rivers, ponds, the large juvenile crayfish juvenile shrimp and adult shrimp, the breeding effect is very obvious.

Nordic Sweden has a “lobster festival”. It is said that at the beginning of the 20th century, due to the crisis of overfishing in Sweden, the government introduced some restrictive policies, and people were only allowed to catch crayfish every August. It’s because I have to wait for a long time to taste such a food, and only once a year, people think that they should celebrate at this time, the Crawfish Festival came into being.

There was no distribution of freshwater crayfish in the African continent. In the 1970s, Kenya began to introduce the original crayfish, and now the crayfish have become an advantageous species in Africa, naturally distributed in many countries in Africa.

Foreigners are actually the first to breed crayfish.

Are foreigners eating crayfish?

Are they breeding crayfish not for eating? For what?

The price of crayfish has been rising year by year, and the crayfish has been on the high-end table. The author often feels ashamed and wants to move, and feels shy and gives up.

On eating crayfish, Western countries are far ahead of us. Today, some schools in China have opened crayfish specialties, systematically studying crayfish, from farming, shrimp, feed , to cooking, etc., is a large industrial chain, which is enough to illustrate the economic weight of crayfish.

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