Since we're talking about the difference between it and lobster, let's get to know balsa fish first!
Balsa Fish
Balsa fish belongs to the catfish order, giant catfish family, giant catfish genus of fish, native to the Mekong River and Chao Phraya River Basin in Indochina. Nowadays, it is an important freshwater culture species in Southeast Asian countries, which is pronounced as 'Kabasha' in Vietnam. Among the giant catfish, Bo's giant catfish and low-eye giant catfish are more widely cultivated. They are long and scaleless, with relatively small heads and wide mouths and large eyes.
Bass carp are farmed in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia. Vietnam is the world's largest producer of farmed fish, which can be said to be the industry's dominant. Vietnam's balsa fishery mainly focus on the export market, the market is spread all over the world hundreds of countries. Of course, how can we be missing our Chinese market!
The simple-looking fish is not only a large individual, it is a wide range of food, resistant to hypoxia, not easy to get sick, the water quality requirements are not high, especially suitable for high-density farming. Growth rate is also fast, high yield high, meat rate up to 40% ~ 50%, belong to the quality of economic fish. The biggest advantage is: no intermuscular spines. Meat without thorns this point is really in line with the majority of diners' appetites!
Balsa fish live whole fish, mostly sold in the country, exported to other countries most of the frozen fish fillet, fish section, fish fillet, fish block, wrapped in powder, fish by-products, and other forms of products, because of its body fat is more suitable for processing and selling.
The quality of balsa fish meat depends on the conditions of the aquaculture water and the quality of the feed fed to the fish, which is generally categorized as white, pink (or light pink), yellow (or light yellow). White is the best, pink is slightly worse and yellow is the worst.
Longleaf
Longleaf belongs to a kind of flounder. It is a fish belonging to the order Platyhelminthes, family Tongue Sole, genus Tongue Sole, commonly known as Tongue Fish, Zipper Fish, etc. Among them, the half-smooth Tongue Sole is better known, and has been farmed in many areas in China.
Half-smooth tongue sole body flat, leaf-shaped, and like a long tongue, so the name "tongue fish". The "crooked mouth and eyes" are all on one side and asymmetrical. The scales are small, and the dorsal, anal, and caudal fins are continuous, and the length of the fish can reach 57 centimeters. Characterized by a wide range of temperatures, salt and adaptability to changing environmental conditions, it is a warm-temperate demersal fish that mainly inhabits China's offshore sea areas.
It is a relatively high-quality marine fish, rich in unsaturated fatty acids, delicious flavor, the fish meat is resistant to cooking, no fishy smell, high protein content, rich in nutrients. The most important thing is that there is only one main spine, the meat rate is relatively high, is not like picking fish spines eaters gospel! But the wild half-smooth tongue sole resources are not much, and its aquaculture industry also belongs to the emerging period, to be developed, the lack of scientific and effective large-scale commercial aquaculture, so the current market price of dragon sole is relatively expensive, the price of about 200 ~ 350 yuan / kg.
Overall, there is still a big difference between dragonfish and balsa fish.
Longley, sea fish, relatively high nutritional value, scales are relatively small, breeding conditions are relatively demanding, and resources are scarce.
Bass carp, freshwater fish, breeding larger, high growth rate, long body without scales, but the meat quality and taste is not as good as the dragonfish.
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