Bahaba fish called Lucky fish ေတြ ဘာလို႔ သိန္းရာခ်ီ တန္ရသလဲ?
အခ်ိန္ ၄၀ ဝန္းက်င္႐ွိၿပီး ကာလတန္ဖိုး သိန္း ၃၀၀/၅၀၀ ဝန္းက်င္ခန္႔ တန္ဖိုး႐ွိတဲ့ Lucky ငါး ေဒသအေခၚ banana chaptis ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးတစ္ေကာင္မြန္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့တယ္ ဆိုတဲ့သတင္းတစ္ပုဒ္ ဖတ္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။
ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ဒီငါးေတြ ဘာေၾကာင့္.ဒီေလာက္တန္ေၾကးႀကီးသလဲဆိုတာအမ်ားသိေအာင္ ေျပာျပခ်င္စိတ္ ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။
တကယ္ေတာ့ ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးအသားက တန္ဘိုးမရွိပါဘူး။ ငါးစီေဖာင္း Fish Maw or Swim Bladder ကတန္ဘိုးႀကီးတာပါ။
အထီးကစီေပါင္းအသားထူၿပီး အမထက္ေစ်းပိုရပါတယ္။
Bahaba Chaptis Fish for Eastern India Ocean
Isinglass or swim bladder or Fish Maw
A. Fish with a herniated swim bladder. B. Fish with a liver (L) hematoma. C. Fish with a ruptured swim bladder (RSB). D. Fish with fully healed swim bladder as evidenced by the white scar tissue on the swim bladder (SB). Organs visible within the pictures include adipose tissue (Ad) and intestine (In). All photos are the ventral view of the fish with anterior to the left.
- ဥပမာ ..ငါးတစ္ေကာင္ ပိသာႏွစ္ဆယ္ရွိရင္. စီေပါင္းခန္႔မွန္းေျခ ႏွစ္ဆယ္သားေလာက္ ရွိႏိုင္တယ္လို႔ ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူမ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းပါတယ္ ။
- ငါးဝယ္လက္မ်ားကေတာ့.စီေပါင္းအေနအထားအတြက္ ဝမ္းဗိုက္ကိုလက္နဲ႔စမ္းၿပီးခန္႔မွန္း စီေပါင္း အထူအပါးကို ခန္႔မွန္းေစ်းေပးၾကပါတယ္ ။
- ကက္သမွ်င္ ေရႊငါး ဆိုတာေပါ့ ၊အခ်ိန္ ႏွစ္ဆယ့္သံုး ပိႆာခန္႕မွန္း တန္ဖိုး သိန္းတစ္ရာ အေပၚ ၊ လက္ရွိ ဝယ္လက္ေပးဝယ္သြားေသာ ေစ်းသိန္းကိုးဆယ္
- update ပါ ေအာက္ေျခမွာတင္ ၁၃၃ သိန္းနဲ႔ အေရာင္းအဝယ္ ျဖစ္သြားပါျပီ ၊ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဂိက္က ကားန႔ဲ အဆက္ျပီး အေပၚ buyer ဆီသို႕ သြားေနပါသည္
ဘုရင့္ေနာင္ပြဲရံုမွာ စီေပါင္းေလလံပြဲလုပ္ပါတယ္။ တရုပ္ဝယ္လက္မ်ား ေစ်းအၿပိဳင္ဆြဲဝယ္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္ေတာ့. ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါး ေလလံပြဲက စိတ္ဝင္စားဖို႕ ေကာင္းပါတယ္ ။
- ေလလံေအာင္တဲ့သူက ငါးကို ခဲတံခြ်န္ဓားနဲ႔ ဗိုက္ကိုကြ်မ္းက်င္စြာခြဲယူၿပီး ေလသလပ္ခံ ေျခာက္ေအာင္လုပ္ပါတယ္၊ ေနပူမလွမ္းပါဘူး။ၿပီးရင္စီေပါင္းကို ကတီပါအိတ္ထဲ တယုတယထည့္ယူပါတယ္။
ဒီ့ေနာက္ေတာ့..ကြ်န္ေတာ္စိတ္ဝင္စားတာနဲ႔ ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးစီေပါင္းကို ဘယ္ေနရာမွာသံုးလို႔ ေစ်းႀကီးတာလည္း စံုစမ္းၾကည့္တဲ့အခါ အေျဖအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးရပါတယ္။
- အာရပ္လူမ်ိဳးေတြ ကေလးေမြးၿပီး မီးေနသည္ဘဝမွာ မီးရိႈ႕အေငြ႕ရွူတယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္ ။
- ျမန္မာျပည္က မီးေနသည္ေတြ နႏြင္းရွူသလိုမ်ိဳးေပါ့။
- ေနာက္ source တစ္ခုက တရုပ္မ်ိဳးႏြယ္စုတစ္မ်ိဳးမွာ ကပ္သမ်ွင္စီေပါင္းကို ေယာကၤ်ား မိန္းမတင္ေတာင္းတဲ႔ ေနရာမွာသံုးပါတယ္ ။
- ဥပမာ မိန္းကေလးရွင္ဖက္က တင္ေတာင္းႏိုင္ရင္ တစ္သက္လံုး မိန္းမအႀကိဳက္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။ ေယာကၤ်ားေလးရွင္ဖက္က တင္ေတာင္းႏိုင္ရင္ တစ္သက္လံုး ေယာကၤ်ားအႀကိဳက္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။ သိသေလာက္ ေရးျပျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
ဒီအေၾကာင္းအရာေတြကိုလည္းကို Thant Zaw Win ဆိုတဲ့ လူတစ္ေယာက္က ေရးျပထားလို႔ သိရတာပါ။
ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္တံငါသည္ေတြအေနနဲ႔လည္း ကံေကာင္းႏိုင္ၾကပါေစလို႔ ဆုေတာင္းရင္း..
ပိုစ္ေအာက္မန္႔ထားတာေတြပါ ဗဟုသုတအရမ္းရပါတယ္
ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးကုိ ရခုိင္ကမ္းရုိးတန္းနဲ႔ဧရာဝတီ ျမစ္ဝကြၽန္းေပၚကမ္းရုိးတန္းေဒသေတြမွာ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ေတြ႕ရေလ့ရွိပါတယ္အရင္တုန္းက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာတနွစ္အေကာင္ သုံးေလးဆယ္ေလာက္ရႏုိင္ေပမယ့္ အခုေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာေတာ့သုံးေလးေကာင္သာရရွိေတာ့ပါတယ္။
- ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါး အဆီေပါင္း တစ္က်ပ္သားကုိ ၃၅သိန္းေလာက္လက္ရွိေစ်းေပါက္ပါတယ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာေစ်းကြက္မွာ ျမန္မာေငြ သိန္းေထာင္ခ်ီတန္တယ္ဗ်။
- ဒီငါးကအေတာ္ရခဲတဲ့ငါးပါ သူနဲ႔ခပ္ဆင္ဆင္ ကပ္သေပါင္းလဲရိွတယ္ ၊ က်ေနာ္ ငါးေလာကမွာ လုပ္တုန္း စုံစမ္းမိသမ်ွေတာ့ တ႐ုတ္ေတြက ငါး စီေပါင္းမွန္သမ်ွကုိ ေယာက်ာ္းအားတုိးေဆးအေနနဲ႔စားတယ္လုိ႔သာေျပၾကပါတယ္ ။
- စီေပါင္းထဲမွာ အဲဒီငါးစီေပါင္းပီးရင္ ေစ်းအေကာင္းဆုံးက ငါးေရႊ(ၿမိဳ႕အေခၚ ငါးေဟာက္ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါးရည္ခ်က္ အရမ္းေကာင္း:ေကာင္း စီေပါင္းပဲ သူလဲ သိန္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတန္တယ္။
Yellow pick conger ငါးေရႊ
တ႐ုတ္ေတြက နတ္ကိုးကြယ္ ယုံၾကည္မူ တအားရိွၾကတယ္၊တ႐ုတ္ေတြက အဲဒိငါးကို ႐ိုးရာနတ္ကိုးကြယ္ ပူေဇာ္ပသ တဲေနရာမွာ အသုံးျပဳၾကတယ္၊အလိမၼာစာမွာရိွဆိုသလိုေပါ့ဗ်ာစာဖတ္တဲ့သူကစာမဖတ္တဲ့သူနဲ႔စာရင္ပိုသိၾကတာပဲ။
ဥပမာ-ကရင္ျပည္နယ္သံလြင္ျမစ္ေဘးကကရင္ရြာေတြမွာ ဒီလိုငါးမ်ိဳးေတြ႔လို႔ကေတာ့အပိုင္းပိုင္းခုတ္ထစ္ငါးပိသိပ္လို႔ဘာေျပာေကာင္းမလဲ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ေစ်းအႀကီးဆံုးငါးပိကိုစားေနၾကမွာအမွန္ပဲ ေတာမွာေနတဲ့ကရင္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားဟာသိပ္႐ိုးသားၾကတာ တခၽိဳ႕နယ္ဘက္ေတြမွာ အဲဒီငါးကို ကနကုတ္ လိုလည္းေခၚၾကတယ္ လပ္ကီးငါးလုိ႔လဲ ေျပာတယ္။
- စီေပါင္းကိုေနပူထဲမလွန္းတာက အေလးခ်ိန္စီးေအာင္ပါ။စီေပါင္းမွာ ေသြးစြန္းရာ ပြန္းပဲ့ရာ စီေပါင္းအတံရွည္ထိပ္ပိုင္းေလးပဲ့ေနတာဆိုလဲေစ်းေကာင္းမရပါဘူး။အာ့ေၾကာင့္ခုေနာက္ပိုင္းအေကာင္လိုက္ေရာင္းရတာပါ။
ေရႊငါးရၿပီးထဲ့ ေရလုပ္သားေတြက ငါးဖမ္းတာရပ္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။အာ့ငါးရၿပီးတာေတာင္ဆက္ၿပီးငါးဖမ္းေနေသးရင္ ရွိသမၽွအကုန္ေျပာင္တာပဲ။တံငါသည္ေတြၾကားမွာေတာ႔ဒီငါးရပီရင္ တံငါအလုပ္ မလုပ္စားနက္နဲ႔ေတာ႔တံငါအလုပ္ ဆက္လုပ္ရင္ အက်ဳိးမျဖစ္ေတာ႔ဘူး
တျခားအလုပ္ ေျပာင္းလုပ္ရတယ္လုိ႔ ယုံၾကည္ၾကတယ္။
- ဟုတ္ကဲ့! ကပ္သမ်ွင္အစီေပါင္းကုိတရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ကာမေဆးေဖာ္စပ္တဲ့ေနရာမွာလည္းသုံးပါတယ္။
- ဒါ့အျပင္ တရုတ္နာမည္ႀကီး တုိင္းရင္းေဆးဝါးထုတ္လုပ္ရာမွာလည္းအသုံးျပဳၾကပါတယ္ကပ္သမ်ွင္အဆီေပါင္းနဲ႔ ထုတ္လုပ္ထားတဲ့ တုိင္းရင္းေဆးဟာ အရမ္းေစ်းႀကီးပါတယ္။
- စီေပါင္းကို ဒန္အိုးဖံုးေပၚတင္ ျခင္ေထာင္ထဲထည့္ၿပီးအျပင္ကပန္ကာဖြင့္ၿပီး ေလနဲ႔အေျခာက္ ခံၾကတယ္။အေရာင္လွမွေစ်းေကာင္းရတာ။ အာ့ေၾကာင့္ ခုကေရခဲရိုက္လို႔ရ ေတာ့အေကာင္လိုက္ေရာင္းၾကတာ။
- အထီးစီေပါင္းကရွည္ေမ်ာေမ်ာေလး ၊အမစီေပါင္းကဝိုင္းတယ္ေျပာၾကတယ္။သူမ်ားေျပာတာၾကားဖူးလို႔ျပန္ေျပာျပတာပါ။
- ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးကိုဒါးႀကီးျဖင့္ဗိုက္ခြဲၿပီး စီေပါင္းကိုေသခ်ာခြါယူရတယ္ျပီးရင္ကပ္ေက်းျဖင့္စီေပါင္းကိုညီညာစြာခြဲရတယ္၊အထဲမွေသြးစနဲအခ်ြဲေတြဖယ္ရတယ္၊ ျပီးေရစင္ေအာင္ေဆးျပီးလိုခ်င္တဲပုံရေအာင္ပုံေဖၚျပီးေနလွန္းရပါတယ္ ၊ ၄ပုံ၃ပုံခန္းေျခာက္ေသြးျပီးမွေလပန္ကာျဖင့္အေျခာက္ခံရတယ္။
- တ႐ုတ္ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါ တီ ေ႐ွး လူႀကီးအျကီးအကဲ အခ်ိဳ႕ကို တန္ဖိုး ႀကီးလက္ေဆာင္ ပ႑ာအျဖစ္ ေပးေလ့ ေပးထ႐ွိတယ္ လို႔ ၾကားဖူးနား၀႐ွိပါသည္။
- အလွအပလဲျကိုက္ေသးတယ္ဝယ္တဲ႔ တရုပ္က ေရွ့ကဘုေလးနွစ္ဘုေဖါင္းေနရမယ္၊ေနာက္ျပီး အမွီးေလးကျကြက္မွီးေလးလိုတန္းေနရမယ္၊အဲလိုျဖစ္ဖို့နည္းစနစ္အမ်ားျကီးရွိေသးတယ္၊အထီးစီေပါင္းေပါင္းကအလယ္ကထူေဘးပက္ခ်ာလယ္ကပါး ပါတယ္၊အမစီေပါင္းကတခ်ပ္လံုးပါးပါသည္။
- အထီးအမရွိပါတယ္ အထီးရဲ႔စီေပါင္းကပိုတန္းဖိုးရိွပါတယ္၊ကက္သမ်ွင္စီေပါင္းဟာ က်ည္ကာမွန္ျပုလုပ္ရာမွာအသံုးျပုဳတာပါ။
- ကပ္သမ်ွင္မွာ ေရြေရာင္ နဲ႔ ေငြေရာင္ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးမွာ ေရြေရာင္ကပ္သမ်ွင္ အထီးစီေဖာင္းက ေဒၚလာသံုးေသာင္းႏွင့္အထက္ ႀကီးရင္ႀကီးသလို္္္္္္ ေစ်းေကာင္းပါတယ္။
စီေပါင္းအေျခာက္ကိုေနေရာင္မွာေထာင္ၾကည့္ရင္ေရႊေရာင္အမံုလဲ့လဲ့ေလးျမင္ရတယ္ ေငြေရာင္ ကပ္သမ်ွင္ကလည္းေနမွာေထာင္ၾကည့္ရင္ ေငြေရာင္လဲ့လဲ့ ျမင္ရပါတယ္..ေငြေရာင္ စီေဖာင္းက တကီလို ကို ျမန္မာက်ပ္ေငြ ငါးသိနး္ေစ်းဝန္းက်င္ေပါက္တယ္..
မိခင္ႀကီး state3 သားအိမ္ကင္ဆာ ခြဲအၿပီး ေငြေရာင္စည္ေဖာင္း..ဆန္ျပတ္တိုက္တာ တပါတ္နဲ႔တင္ ေဆးရံုကဆင္းရပါတယ္၊ ခြဲစိတ္မႈေအာင္ျမင္လို႔ ငါးႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ပါၿပီ၊ဆိုလိုတာက. လူမမာအတြက္ ထူးထူးျခားျခား အားအင္ျပည့္ၿဖိဳးေစတာေတာ့ ေတြရပါတယ္ ေရြေရာင္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ပိုစြမ္းမလားဘဲ။
- ငါးစည္ေဖာင္း ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ႏွလံုးကို အက်ိဳးျပဳတယ္လို႔လည္း မွတ္ရဖူးပါတယ္ ၊ကပ္သမ်ွင္ငါးရဲ႕ေစ်းၾကီးရျခင္းအေၾကာင္းေတြထဲကတစ္ခုေျပာပါဆိုရင္စည္ေပါင္းပါပဲ။
- ဒီစည္ေပါင္းကအဆိုးတန္ေရေမႊးလုပ္ရာမွာမပါမျဖစ္ပါရတယ္လို႕ၾကားဖူးပါသည္ ေတာ္ရုံေစ်းေပါေသာေရေမႊး၌ထည္႕မသုံးနိုင္ပါ။ကမၻာတဝွမ္းမွအထက္တန္းစားလူဂုဏ္တန္မ်ားသာသုံးစြဲနိုင္ေသာေရေမႊးတြင္သာအသုံးျပဳသည္ဟုမွတ္သားရဖူးပါသည္။ ျပင္သစ္မွလက္ဗရြန္လိုေရေမႊးမ်ိဳးပါ။
- ကပ္သမွ်င္ အခ်ိန္၄၀ေကာင္ဆိုရင္အစို ၁ပိသာ၁၀သားေလာက္ရွိတယ္ ခြဲျပီးလွမ္းမယ္ဆိုရင္ဆံျပာေသာဇေကာႏွင့္၁ခ်ပ္ေလာက္ရွိပါသည္။အသားမွာႀကမ္းသည္ထင္ရေပမဲ့အေရခြင္ေရာအသားပါအလြန္အရသာရွိေသာငါးျဖစ္သည္ ဟင္းခ်က္ရာတြင္ဟင္းနံ႔မွာေမႊးေနသည္အသားကနူးညံ့၍အေရခြံမွာစားလွ်င္ထုတ္ထုတ္ႏွင့္စားလို႔ေကာင္းသည္။
ငယ္ငယ္၁၈ႏွစ္ သားအထိအႀကိမ္၂၀မကစားဘူးသည္ထိုအခ်ိန္ကပြဲရုံေစ်း၁ပိသာ၄က်ပ္မွ် ရွိေစ်းထဲေရာင္းေစ်းမွာ၁ပိသာမွ၆က်ပ္၇က်ပ္သာရွိေစ်းေပၚကို၁လ၁၀ေကာင္၁၂ေကာင္ထိတက္ ဒါအနည္းေလးေျပာတာ ကပ္သမွ်င္ရလိုေစ်းကိုတင္မယ္ဆို ငါးကိုအျမည္းႏွင့္ေခါင္းကိုႀကိဳးခ်ည္ျပီး ဝါးပုိလုံးႏွင့္လူႏွစ္ေယာက္ထမ္း၍ေစ်းကိုသယ္ပါသည္။ငါးအျမည္းေျမႀကီးႏွင့္မလြတ္၍ သယ္ တာပါ၊ရခိုင္မွာဆာဖာငါးလို႔ ေခၚတယ္ဗ်၊အဲငါးႀကီးႀကီးရရင္ ထီေပါက္သလိုပဲ ရခိုင္မွာေပ်ာ္ျကတယ္ ။
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Chinese buyer pays CNY 180,000 for endangered fish
By Mark Godfrey-June 30, 2016
A record CNY 180,000 (USD 27,140, EUR 24,425) was paid for a single bahaba fish caught in Myanmar earlier this week by a traditional medicine practitioner in China. The bahaba fish is prized in China for the supposed medicinal value of its bladder.
While much has been made of the industrial-scale slaughter of elephants, rhinos and tigers for use in Chinese traditional medicine, the plight of the bahaba has received less attention.
The bahaba, a yellow-finned fish that is a protected species in mainland China, has largely disappeared due to poaching and the industrial degradation of its traditional spawning habitats in river estuaries.
The comparatively underdeveloped waters of Myanmar, however, have become a new focus for traders in the fish from China and Hong Kong.
How China’s fish bladder investment craze is wiping out species on the other side of the planet
Another asset bubble has burst in China. And it’s not in stocks, metals or real estate. It’s the market for a maize-colored organ carved out of a giant, endangered Mexican fish.
- That fish, the totoaba, uses this organ, its swim bladder, to regulate buoyancy. For centuries, wealthy Chinese have used such bladders, what they often call “fish maws,” to make soups thought to smooth the discomfort of pregnancy and cure joint pain, among other ailments—and sometimes as speculative investments. In 2011, a single totoaba bladder could fetch as much as HK$1,000,000 (then about $137,000) in Hong Kong or Guangzhou, according to Greenpeace Asia, a nonprofit group. But these days, that same bladder is worth a mere HK$200,000.
The story of how the bladder bubble inflated and then burst is a classic tale of globalization—of the intersection between monetary policy, financial markets, luxury goods, international regulation, and transnational crime. It’s also an all-too-familiar and depressing environmental tale, because while the bladder trade has endangered the totoaba, it’s driven the vaquita—a tiny porpoise that’s prone to getting tangled up in totoaba nets—almost to extinction.
Fortunately for both animals, after years of lax enforcement, the Mexican government is finally cracking down on illegal totoaba fishing in waters the vaquita inhabits. There’s a glint of hope that their populations might recover from the spectacular carnage of the last few years. Ultimately, though, the fate of both animals will depend not on the zeal of Mexican authorities but on the whims of wealthy Chinese investors—and whether they start betting on bladders once again.
Bahaba Fish Worth $473,000 Caught, Sold In China
An endangered fish known in Chinese medicine for its healing properties was caught off the coast of the Fujian province of China last week and fetched a stunning $473,000, Business Insider reports.
The fisherman has not yet been identified, but according to a Fujian news outlet, he is reportedly an older man who had little money and plans to use the profits from the fish to buy a bigger boat.
The fisherman told the news outlet that he saw the bahaba — which weighed 80kg, or about 175 pounds — floating near the surface and was able to simply pick it up. When the man brought his catch back to shore, fishmongers started bidding on it immediately.
The bahaba fish, also known as the giant yellow croaker, is valued for its swim bladder, which is thought to help cure heart and lung ailments. As a result, the fish has been sold for large sums of money throughout the years.
In 2008, a group of anglers caught a nearly 6-foot bahaba and sold it to a local fisherman for about $2,500, Reuters reports. However, they were unaware of how just valuable their fish was. The man they sold the fish to turned around and re-sold it to a seafood restaurant for even more, and that restaurant subsequently sold it for $126,000.
In 2010, a bahaba fish believed to be 50 years old was caught and sold for about $500,000, Scientific American notes.
According to the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, the bahaba fish is close to extinction and is considered critically endangered. The bahaba was discovered by scientists in the 1930s and became a popular target of fishermen by the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Though bahabas are protected in mainland China, there are no regulations in Hong Kong. The bahaba is still fished and sold illegally despite the species’s low numbers because of how valuable it can be.
In 2010, a bahaba fish believed to be 50 years old was caught and sold for about $500,000, Scientific American notes. According to the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, the bahaba fish is close to extinction and is considered critically endangered.Aug 21, 2012
Bahaba Fish Worth $473,000 Caught, Sold In China | HuffPost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/473000-bahaba-fish-caught_n_1818083.html
A rare Chinese bahaba on sale for $140,000
http://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/a_rare_chinese_bahaba_on_sale_for_140000.php
- The Chinese Bahaba found earlier was 3.5 kg and worth 1million USD. Li, who found the fist approached an aquatic research institution expert the next day after fuinding the fish, who uttered the appearance should tell it’s a Chinese bahaba but, still, a dissection is needed to make sure it is not another species similar to Chinese bahaba. Li declined the expert’s suggestion in fear that it would ruin the fish and lower the selling price. He also turned down a fish vendor’s offer of 500,000 for this queer fish, making it clear he would not let it go for less than 1 million.
- In April 2007, a fisherman in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong province, netted a 49-kg Chinese bahaba and sold to a restaurant owner for 580,000 yuan. The restaurant cooked the fish meat but has kept the dried maw since, tagging it at 2 million yuan with words “not for sale”. Now that is surprising!
Chinese fisherman hooks £300,000 fish
- A Chinese fisherman has netted a fortune after catching a critically endangered, but hugely prized, fish worth £300,000.
Chinese appetite for totoaba fish bladder kills off rare porpoise
Cut and dried? Hong Kong conservation authorities seek legal advice on shops selling bladders from endangered fish species.
Hong Kong conservation authorities are taking legal advice on whether to prosecute two dried seafood vendors for the suspected sale of maw from an endangered fish species.
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Dr Leung Siu-fai said his department had launched inspections and undercover investigations involving about 150 shops following reports this year that totoaba maw was being sold openly in the city.
We have found two cases where has there has been suspected illegal trading activity,” said Leung. “We are consulting the Department of Justice for advice. Once we have sufficient evidence, we will begin prosecutions.”
If found guilty, the business owners could face a HK$5 million fine and two-year prison sentence. Leung said there was no evidence to show Hong Kong was a hub for the illegal totoaba fish trade.
- While maw – fish bladder – is commonly sold in Hong Kong, totoaba bladders are a more highly prized delicacy, and can fetch up to HK$500,000 for 500 grams.
International trade in the totoaba is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
But groups such as Greenpeace say totoaba maw is still smuggled effortlessly into the city, due to lax border controls,- and sold over the counter by dried seafood shops.
Greenpeace East Asia programme manager Gloria Chang Wan-ki said government action on totoaba was “very slow” and that the real number of vendors selling the product was likely to be much higher.
The group said their investigations had shown maw was smuggled from Mexico to the United States before being shipped to Hong Kong and exported to the mainland, making the city a key hub.
Between February and last month, Greenpeace checked out 70 dried seafood retailers in Sheung Wan and found at least 13 selling totoaba bladder. Many offered to source maw directly from Mexico, with at least one vendor even offering to help smuggle a specimen to mainland China for an additional fee.
Poaching of the fish has also been helping drive the extinction of a rare species of porpoise, the vaquita, which tends to get stuck in gillnets set for totoaba. Both species inhabit the same waters and are indigenous to Mexico’s Gulf of California.
- Collateral Damage: How illegal trade in totoaba swim bladders is driving the vaquita to extinction
How China’s fish bladder investment craze is wiping out species on the other side of the planet.
Another asset bubble has burst in China. And it’s not in stocks, metals or real estate. It’s the market for a maize-colored organ carved out of a giant, endangered Mexican fish.
That fish, the totoaba, uses this organ, its swim bladder, to regulate buoyancy. For centuries, wealthy Chinese have used such bladders, what they often call “fish maws,” to make soups thought to smooth the discomfort of pregnancy and cure joint pain, among other ailments—and sometimes as speculative investments. In 2011, a single totoaba bladder could fetch as much as HK$1,000,000 (then about $137,000) in Hong Kong or Guangzhou, according to Greenpeace Asia, a nonprofit group. But these days, that same bladder is worth a mere HK$200,000.
The story of how the bladder bubble inflated and then burst is a classic tale of globalization—of the intersection between monetary policy, financial markets, luxury goods, international regulation, and transnational crime. It’s also an all-too-familiar and depressing environmental tale, because while the bladder trade has endangered the totoaba, it’s driven the vaquita—a tiny porpoise that’s prone to getting tangled up in totoaba nets—almost to extinction.
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Fish Maw Products
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Fish Maw
What is fish maw?
- Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like croaker and sturgeon.
- It has has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients.
- It is graded according to sex: male bladders are better than female ones.
- For the Chinese, it is considered one of the big four delicacies of the sea "鮑、參、翅、肚".
Are there any health benefits?
- Fish maw is a good source of collagen and helps with blood circulation.
How do I select fish maw?
- Fried fish maw or 沙爆魚肚 or 油炸魚肚 looks white and puffy. In the 沙爆 or “sand exploded” method, dried swim bladders are continuously stirred in hot sand until it becomes white and expanded.
- 油炸 or “oil fried” is simply deep frying dried maw to achieve the same puffy results.
- Fried fish maw is recommended for plated dishes because it can reconstitute quickly, absorbs sauce easily and gives a delightful spongy texture to dishes. However, a popular soup recipe (often served at banquets) is fried fish maw thick soup or “fish maw gung."
- Dried fish maw or 黃花膠 usually comes from croaker. Croaker maw has higher nutritional value and is better than fried maw for nourishing soups.
- Dried maw requires several hours of reconstitution before it is soft and usable.
- Fish maw from males can withstand long boiling times better while females become soft and and gelatinous much quicker.
How do I prepare fish maw?
- Fish maw must be soaked for hours, usually overnight before it can be prepared.
- Fish maw a suitable alternative for shark's fin and bird's nest in soups or stews.
* Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
