The flesh of jumping fish is delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the effect of nourishment, which is regarded as nourishing food by the people in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, and Guangdong, and is in great demand abroad.

Jumping fish can be used as a coastal harbor beach, polder area, mangrove area and fish farms for aquaculture objects, but also in the mud shrimp ponds mixed culture. However, in the past 10 years, due to the massive reclamation of coastal beaches, environmental pollution, and the impacts of excessive fishing, the resources are declining, and the natural fry are limited, not easy to come from, and unstable, which greatly affects the development of the aquaculture business. In order to protect this resource, especially in the breeding season from May to August, should limit the number of fishing.

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Species Classification

The jumping fish belongs to the family of spiny-finned fishes, and there are 25 species of jumping fish in the world***. They can be categorized into four species: skatlaus, er ophiosalmus, pereophorus salmus and pereophorus withdrawnmerton.

The general name for the fish of the family Elasmobranchidae, also known as jumping fish. Scleractinia, Perissodactyla. Warm-water and warm-temperate inshore small fish. Widely distributed in the west coast of Africa, Indo-Pacific waters, Australia, the New Hebrides tropical and subtropical nearshore shallow waters, but not produced in the Americas. It is distributed along the coast of China.

There are mainly three genera and six species along the coast of China, namely, mudskipper, mudskipper, green mudskipper, and big green mudskipper. The common species are the mudskipper, the great mudskipper, and the green mudskipper.

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