Hainan called rotten bad fish is sea chub.

Hai Chub, locals call this fish "rotten bad" (sound the same), spiny and dense, cooking method is also a single, mostly to do fish balls, soup fresh flavor.

Sea chub is also known as barracuda, commonly known as rotten meat pike along the coast of Guangdong, swim very fast, a lot of power. Carnivorous fish, mainly feeding on small fish. It is also one of the favorite fish of sea anglers. The body is long and slender, like a dogfish, and is covered with silver-colored scales.

Habitat

Sea chub is a warm-water offshore pelagic fish. Inhabiting the tropical and subtropical sea waters, sometimes into the estuary. Feeding on small shrimp and small fish.

Sea chub adult fish for the pelagic migratory fish, spawning floating eggs in the ocean. The sea chub is a fast swimmer, fierce and voracious. Sea chub is a long-distance fish species that can migrate in both directions over long distances. Many people know the migration of the sea chub, which is famous for the "fish hook flyover" - swimming and jumping between freshwater and seawater.

The sea chub is a carnivorous fish that feeds mainly on small fish, but its eating habits change all the time as it grows and develops, and in the first stage of development, it gets nutrients directly from the water. Young individuals that break away from the larvae eat plankton, small fish and insects.

Adult sea chubs eat only fish and crustaceans, mainly catching sardines, anchovies, mullets, sawfish, lancelets (which are the most heavily weighted fish), and crabs. Due to their small teeth, sea chubs swallow their food whole. And they feed mainly in mid-water.