3000 yuan a catty. the price of Yangtze swordfish in 2022 is 3000 yuan a catty. The Yangtze River swordfish refers to the long-jawed crabs, whose body is flat and narrow, resembling a silver-white gimlet. Long-jawed crabs are distributed in the Yangtze River and offshore semi-saline and freshwater areas, entering freshwater from estuaries during the reproductive season, and migrating upstream along the main stream to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River spawning grounds for reproductive migrations, reaching as far as Dongting Lake.