Domestic yellow croaker is not a protected animal.

1. Huangyu is the common name of naked carp, a special product of Qinghai Lake and a national second-class protected animal. It belongs to CYPRINIDAE in fish, and its scientific name is "naked carp in Qinghai Lake". Naked carp are naked and have almost no scales. Body length, slightly flat side, conical head, blunt and round kiss, big mouth crack, inferior, horseshoe-shaped The maxilla is slightly prominent, and there is no sharp cutin at the front edge of mandible. The lower lip is narrow and undeveloped, divided into left and right lobes; The posterior labial groove is interrupted and far apart; No need. The body is bare, and there are 3-4 rows of irregular scales above the base of pectoral fin and below the lateral line; There are 1 rows of large scales on both sides of anus and gluteal fin, which reach the base of ventral fin forward, and occasionally degenerate scale marks from ventral fin to the midline of pectoral fin. The lateral line is straight, and the front end of the lateral line scales degenerates into skin folds, and the back end is even less obvious. The dorsal fin has hard spines with serrated edges. The back of the body is yellowish brown or grayish brown, the abdomen is yellowish or grayish white, and there are large irregular black spots on the side; Each fin is reddish, like a spindle. The head is blunt and round, and the mouth is at the front end of the head. It's not necessary. The back is grayish brown or yellowish brown, the abdomen is grayish white or yellowish, and there are irregular brown patches on both sides of the body. Fins are light gray or reddish. There are also some individuals with light yellow or dark green body.

2. How to eat yellow croaker (practice)

(1) Braised yellow croaker

First, the yellow croaker is cleaned and coated with starch.

Slice onion, ginger, garlic and red pepper. Mix salt, sugar, vegetable monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, white wine, vinegar and pepper with a bowl of stewed fish juice.

Pour oil in a hot pot. When the oil is warm, put the fish in the pot and fry both sides thoroughly with slow fire. Put the onion, ginger and garlic into the fish pot.

Then pour the sauce of the stewed fish into the fish pot and simmer for about 20 minutes.

② Stewed small yellow croaker

Remove gills and viscera from yellow croaker and wash it. Cut onion, ginger and garlic into sections for later use.

Heat a wok, add oil and saute shallots, ginger and garlic.

Add croaker. Cook the cooking wine and vinegar along the side of the pot, and turn on a big fire, so that it can evaporate quickly and achieve the purpose of removing the fishy smell, and add light soy sauce.

Add a proper amount of water, boil over high fire, and add salt and sugar to taste.

Simmer for about 10 minute, and serve.

③ Stewed tofu with yellow croaker

Remove gill and viscera from two yellow croaker, wash and cut into sections, and cut onion, ginger and garlic into sections for later use.

Add tofu, ginger, pepper, cooking wine and water to the pot and stew for about 15 minutes.

When the soup is boiling, add chopped green onion and stir. Turn off the heat and serve.