Yellow crucian carp and yellow croaker is not the same kind of fish, the main difference is as follows:

1, categories are different, yellow crucian carp is commonly known as the horse mouth fish, yellow finch, book crucian carp, etc., is the yellow croaker yellow croaker anchovy family, family of stoneheads, yellow croaker is a kind of fish. And the yellow croaker, also known as yellowtail, is a genus of yellowtail in the genus yellowtail of the family Stonefish collectively.

2, the distribution is different, the yellow carp is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, China's South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea also have output. The yellow croaker is endemic to China, distributed in the south of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the small yellow croaker is distributed in China's Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea and the west coast of Korea.

3, different morphology, yellow carp is generally 15 centimeters long, weighing 20 a 30 grams. The head is short and the eyes are small. Kiss protruding, large and tilted mouth cleft, no lateral line. The body length of the yellow croaker is about 30 centimeters. The head is large and laterally flattened, and the muzzle is rounded. The eyes are equal in size and lateral superior; the interocular septum is wide and slightly convex. The scales below the lateral line are larger than those above the lateral line. The shape of the small yellowtail is similar to that of the large yellowtail but smaller.

4, habitat and living environment is different, the yellow croaker inhabits in the water depth of 4-13 meters within the silt substrate, slow current shallow sea area. Mainly feeding on planktonic crustaceans. The yellow croaker wintering in the deep sea, often inhabiting the water depth of 60 meters or less offshore in the lower layer. It migrates to the coast in the spring, and after spawning between March and June, it disperses offshore to solicit bait, mainly feeding on mysid shrimp, hairy shrimp, and small fish.

Expanded Information:

Yellowfishes, there are big and small yellowfishes, respectively, are one of China's four major marine industry The yellowtail is one of the four major marine species in China. Yellowtail diet is more mixed, mainly to fish and shrimp for food. Zhoushan fishery in China produced the most famous yellowtail. Summer before and after the Duanyang Festival is the main season of the yellowtail, Qingming to the rain is the main season of the small yellowtail, at this time the yellowtail body fat, scales golden, the development has reached its peak, the most food value.

As a valuable economic fish, the yellowtail has long been favored by consumers. But due to long-term overfishing, the variety and quality of resources is deteriorating, as the yellowtail as the main producing areas of the Zhejiang fishery, the original abundance of the "four major fisheries" - yellowtail, small yellowtail, scallop, squid has been the name of the real dead. "Although the belt fish and small yellowtail can maintain fishing, but the population structure of miniaturization, the trend of ageing is obvious.

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