The cochineal fish, also known as the yellow row, blood row, pink row, fire bream, wood leaf pan, red fish, purple bream, bird fish, fire row, Chinese sail fin sucker fish, etc., grows in China's Yangtze River system, oviparous, in the aquarium environment has not been successfully bred. Its body shape is peculiar, colorful, especially the juvenile fish body shape chic, colorful, swimming quietly, was known as "smooth sailing", in Southeast Asia enjoys the "Asian mermaid" reputation. It is a rare freshwater species endemic to China. Cochineal fish early distribution is very wide, the Yangtze River Basin can be seen in most areas, is a famous high-level edible fish, due to man-made fishing led to the decline in the number of scientific reproduction through the release of the population has been stabilized back to the number.