Bighead carp like big flavorful baits.
Combined name for bighead and silver carp. Bighead carp is also called bighead carp, fathead carp, baghead carp, big head carp, black chub (also called hemp chub in other places), also called male fish. It is similar to bighead carp in appearance. Side flat. It is a kind of freshwater fish. The head is large and wide, the head length is about 1/3 of the body length, and the mouth is also wide and slightly upturned. The eyes are low. Bighead carp filter feed on algae, zooplankton and organic debris.
The bighead carp is called a planktophagous fish, filter-feeding on algae, zooplankton, and organic detritus through gill rakers.The composition of the food varies with the food sources in the environment, but it is difficult to ingest food particles that are <10um. Bighead carp is also used to control large outbreaks of cyanobacteria in water bodies, called non-classical biological manipulation techniques. Bighead carp are also used in water retention fisheries or water purification fisheries.
Farming bighead and silver carp is mainly suitable for some lakes, as exemplified by Jindeng Village, Jieshou Township, Gaoyou City, where more than 670 acres of net-enclosed water surface is farmed with the river crab-supported bighead and silver carp culture model, which increases income of about 1 million yuan from bighead and silver carp alone at harvest time.
Net enclosure facilities around the lake with two layers of polyethylene mesh fencing, mesh 2 cm or so, the middle of a layer of dense mesh in order to prevent the escape of river crabs, the bottom of the net with pebbles as a sinker, the bottom of the net box is buried in the substrate of 10-15 cm and tread solid. Surrounded by moso bamboo for piles, plastic film fence, height above the highest water level in the lake area about 50 centimeters. Water plants can be planted in the lake area where water plants resources are relatively scarce, such as wild diamonds and other water plants.
Put live snails 150-200 kilograms of live snails per mu before Ching Ming to provide natural active feed for river crabs.