The pike is a pincer fish .

:The pincer fish (qiányú)

is the major catfish species in North America. It is officially native to the U.S. states of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Tennessee, where it is commonly known as the "channel cat". In the United States, 8 million people trap it each year, making it one of the most popular traps and one of the most famous in the aquaculture industry.

It is also known as spotted fork-tailed catfish, with thick meat without thorns, smooth skin and tender meat, fat and delicious characteristics. The nutritional value of the pincer fish is very high, with a large fresh, complementary features, usually used to make boiled dishes, especially suitable for stewing with squash to suspend its freshness, eat the pincer fish fresh and tender, don't have a taste.

Growth environment

Spotted catfish (IctalurusPunctatus (Rafinesque) also known as channel catfish (ChannelCatfish), belongs to the catfish order (Siluriformes), catfish family (Ictaluridae) fish. Spotted fork-tailed catfish natural distribution area in the United States in the central basin, southern Canada and parts of the Atlantic coast, and later widely into the Atlantic coast, in the United States and northern Mexico have distribution.

Origin is water quality is not polluted, sandy or gravelly substrate, fast-flowing large and medium-sized rivers. It can also enter brackish and freshwater waters to live. It is now one of the major freshwater aquaculture species in the United States.

Spotted catfish is the Hubei Institute of Aquatic Sciences in 1984 and the cloud catfish at the same time the introduction of a catfish, after several years of research and promotion of culture, confirmed that the fish is suitable for most areas of our country. More growth in the water quality of non-polluting sandy or gravel bottom or faster flow rate of large and medium-sized rivers; can also enter the brackish and freshwater waters.

Population Distribution

The pincerfish originated in the New North, distributed in Quebec and the eastern and northern United States, and also in the northern part of Mexico. The species was later introduced to inland lakes in Europe and to some parts of Malaysia. Canada has a large population of pincer fish, not only in the Great Lakes, Nipigon Lake is also widely distributed.