Wuchang fish (WuchangFish), commonly known as bream, bream. According to "Wuchang County": Bream, bream, also known as bream, produced by Fankou A world. It is a place where the water circling, deep pools without bottom, fishermen set the fishnet to catch, stop this fishnet taste fat, and the rest is also better than other places." At the same time, to "scales white and no black membrane in the abdomen is true." The famous freshwater fish dishes.

Wuchang fish, belonging to the carp order, carp family, bleak subfamily, genus bream. Common name: bream, bream, bream, bream, flat-breasted bream. Latin name: M. amblycephala Yih; English name: Bluntnose black bream , Wuchangfish , Bluntsnout bream . It is also known as the group head bream, with tender meat and delicious flavor, and is one of the major freshwater aquaculture fish in China. Wuchangfish is mainly produced in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with Hubei as the most abundant, mostly produced in May to August. The body of Wuchang fish is flat and lateral, diamond-shaped, with a body length of 1.9~2.3 times of the body height. The ventral ribs are incomplete. The dorsal bulge is obvious, the head is small, the mouth is small and anterior to the mouth, the side of the body is dusty and has a light brown luster, the dorsal color is dark, the ventral color is light, the abdominal color is light, the scales are medium-sized, the anal fins are longer, the caudal peduncle is shorter, and the caudal fin is y forked. The flesh of pomfrets is tender and fatty, with many spines in small fish and few spines in large fish.