I remember not long ago, a netizen came to Qinghai to play, got off the net near Qinghai Lake, caught the yellow croaker and posted the video online. Although he finally released the fish, he was still summoned by the relevant departments. So remind friends again, when you come to Qinghai to play, don't catch fish near Qinghai Lake at will.
Why do Qinghai people make such efforts to protect it? That's because Qinghai people have a special feeling for Huangyu, not only because it is a rare fish unique to Qinghai, but more importantly, because it has saved Qinghai people's lives and is a life-saving fish for Qinghai people, so many Qinghai people are full of nostalgia when they mention Huangyu.
The yellow croaker in Qinghai, whose scientific name is naked carp in Qinghai Lake, commonly known as yellow croaker, flower fish, pike fish and scaleless fish, belongs to the order Cypriniformes. In fact, the scientific name of yellow croaker is naked carp Platts, which comes from a Russian army officer, PuGerval. Later, because it belongs to CYPRINIDAE, has no scales, and is produced in the water system of Qinghai Lake, the scientific name of Huangyu changed to Qinghai Lake naked carp. Yellow croaker is a unique fish in Qinghai Lake. Maybe some friends will say that there are yellow croaker in many places in Qinghai. They are actually right. There are many places in Qinghai where there are yellow croaker, but not all yellow croaker growing in many rivers and lakes in Qinghai are Qinghai Lake naked carp. In Qinghai, in addition to the naked carp of Qinghai Lake, there are also naked carp of Ganzi River distributed in Qinghai Lake and its affiliated rivers, naked carp of spotted carp distributed in Ering Lake, Zhaling Lake and nearby rivers, and naked carp of Qilian Mountain. And what you see is probably these.
Every year from March to July, thousands of yellow croaker flock upstream and enter the rivers of Qinghai Lake to lay eggs. Among them, Buha River, Shaliu River, Quanji River, Heima River and Hallgeir River are the main rivers for yellow croaker migration. In recent years, CCTV's popular documentary on yellow croaker migration was also filmed in the vicinity of these rivers. It's really a helpless move for yellow croaker to travel long distances to spawn, because the Qinghai lake with high salt and alkali inhibits the normal development of its gonads and can't complete the sacred mission of carrying on the family line. From these fish, we can all feel the greatness of that kind of maternal love.
So why do you say that Qinghai yellow croaker is a life-saving fish for Qinghai people? This story will start with three years of natural disasters. The three-year natural disasters from 1960 to 1962 are very strange to many young people. My father was born in 1960. In my grandmother's words, if there were no yellow croaker in Qinghai Lake, my father would probably not survive in which era. Yes, it is precisely because of Qinghai Lake and Huangyu that many Qinghai people survived in that hard time. Anyone who has experienced that hard time knows that three years of natural disasters are extremely difficult for the people of the whole country. With the government's self-help orders issued by various units to "hunt mountains and fish water", tens of thousands of people have entered the area around the lake to fish day and night. State-owned fishing grounds, fishing teams organized by all units in the province, farmers who spontaneously fished around, and even fishermen from Gansu and Shaanxi, the whole lake area was full of dark fishermen, and the scene was spectacular.
Today, looking back on all this, we really want to thank God for giving Qinghai a big lake with so many yellow croaker! In order to fish in Qinghai Lake, the state set up five state-run fishing grounds (sub-farms) around Qinghai Lake, with about 2,000 people. They are: Heimahe Fishing Ground, Jiangxi Gou Fishing Ground, Buhahe Fishing Ground, Shatuo Fishing Ground and Tiebucha Fishing Ground. At that time, Qinghai Lake was very rich in fish resources, and tens of thousands of catties of yellow croaker could be harvested by one net, which was equivalent to four or five trucks of yellow croaker. According to incomplete statistics, during the three-year natural disasters from 1960 to 1962, Qinghai * * * caught 72,900 tons of yellow croaker. According to the average population of Qinghai in these three years of 22 1 10,000 people, Qinghai people ate 66 kilograms of yellow croaker in three years, which does not include an incalculable amount of folk fishing. One person weighs 66 pounds of yellow croaker, so you can think about how many Qinghai people have been saved by yellow croaker!
In the 1990s, with people's excessive illegal fishing and the slow growth of the yellow croaker itself, there are fewer and smaller yellow croaker in Qinghai Lake. As everyone in Qinghai knows, the reason why the yellow croaker tastes delicious is that its growth rate is extremely slow, and it can only grow for about one or two years. If you are lucky enough to see a 2-catty yellow croaker, congratulations, it has grown for at least 20 years.
With the improvement of people's living standards, people's awareness of ecological protection is getting stronger and stronger. In order to protect Qinghai people's life-saving fish, the relevant departments of Qinghai Province have moved many villages around Qinghai Lake, promulgated many laws and regulations, and set up special departments and teams to protect Qinghai Lake Huangyu. So today, we can still see this beautiful creature in Qinghai Lake. At that time, it saved the people of Qinghai with its own life. Today, we should know how to repay our kindness and protect our life-saving fish.
The good news is that with the popularity of CCTV's Huangyu Migration Program, Qinghai Huangyu, an elf, has gone out of Qinghai and gone to the world. It has become one of the purposes for many people to travel to Qinghai to watch Huangyu Migration. Qinghai Lake is the kidney of the plateau, which breathes the breath of life. It nurtures the surrounding grasslands and allows countless creatures to live here freely. What we humans should do today is to protect this beautiful homeland and protect these creatures. Only when people live in harmony with nature can we be happier!