Three fragrant fish are also called sesame oil fish, melon fish, fine phosphorus fish, fairy fetus fish and so on. Three-to-fragrant fish refers to the fragrant fish with its head, viscera and scales removed. Its body shape is long and narrow and relatively flat, with a general body length of 15-20 cm, a small head and a large mouth. Fragrant fish is a small and medium-sized economic fish with delicious meat and unique flavor.

What's the name of Sanqu Xiang Fish?

Many people should have heard of Sanqu Xiang Fish, which is actually a kind of fish belonging to the family Fragrant Fish and the genus Fragrant Fish. There are many aliases, such as sesame oil fish, melon fish, fine scale fish, marine fetus fish, fairy fetus fish, autumn baby fish and year fish. Aroma fish are mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Shandong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in China.

The fragrant fish is long and flat, generally about 15-20 cm in length, and the larger one can reach more than 30 cm. The head of the fragrant fish is relatively small, with a pointed snout, the front end bent downward into a hook-shaped protrusion, the mouth is relatively large, the whole body has relatively fine reticular scales, the back of the body is bluish black, the abdomen is silvery white, and the fins are pale yellow.

Life habits of fragrant fish

Fragrant fish is a kind of cave-swimming fish that spawns upstream. Generally, it warms in the river in spring every autumn, and the young fish hatched in that year overwinter in the sea and feed on plankton. Fragrant fish is a small and medium-sized economic fish with better economic value, delicious meat and unique flavor, and its meat can also be used as medicine.