Eating horseshoe crabs caused a tragedy
At 6 p.m. on July 21, 2018, Ms. Lin, who lives in Dongxing City, bought a seafood horseshoe crab at the vegetable market and returned home to make dinner for a family of four according to the usual way of making horseshoe crabs. An hour after dinner, Ms. Lin and her husband experienced numbness of the mouth and general weakness, and the two children were in poor spirits, vomiting frequently and having difficulty standing still.
After feeling bad, the two rushed to contact relatives to send the family to Dongxing City People's Hospital for treatment, simple treatment due to limited medical conditions transferred to the Qinzhou People's Hospital, Ms. Lin's husband and the eldest son because of gastric lavage in a timely manner has been out of life-threatening situations. The younger son is in serious condition and has passed away, and the mother is still in a coma and in critical condition.
Horseshoe crab fish how to eat
In some countries of the world, including some areas of the country have the habit of eating horseshoe crabs, horseshoe crab method is also different, there are baked, soup, horseshoe crab meat will be taken out of with other dishes, in short, horseshoe crabs are still a lot of people as a delicacy. Horseshoe crabs are edible. However, the round-tailed horseshoe crab is not edible because it is poisonous. June to August is the time when horseshoe crabs come ashore to spawn and are easily caught by fishermen, so the summer and fall seasons are also the most common seasons for food poisoning caused by eating horseshoe crabs by mistake.
Horseshoe crab soup with sliced meat and horseshoe crab shells steamed with fans is a classic Yangjiang practice. The meat of the horseshoe crab is removed and washed, leaving the shell to be used to steam the fans. Horseshoe crab meat and melon, meat with soup, the use of melon, detoxification properties, and horseshoe crab moisture and heat neutralization, to achieve the best results of healthy and delicious. At the same time, the refreshing nature of watermelon also removes the astringent flavor of horseshoe crab, making the freshness of the meat more pronounced. The texture of horseshoe crab meat is similar to that of crab meat, but it is more chewy and leaves a fresh flavor between the teeth.
Horseshoe crab fish is a protected animal in China
"Chinese horseshoe crab" is a very old marine crustacean, "biological living fossil", is the second level of protection. Our province's Pingtan, Changle, Lianjiang, Xiamen, Dongshan and other places along the coast is the main habitat of the horseshoe crab, but due to the impact of human influence on the marine environment in recent years, resulting in the horseshoe crab's habitat has been damaged to a certain extent, and the number of its greatly reduced.
The biggest difference between the Chinese horseshoe crab and the round-tailed horseshoe crab is that the Chinese horseshoe crab's tail is equal to the length of the horseshoe crab's armor, while the round-tailed horseshoe crab's tail is obviously longer than the horseshoe crab's armor, and the Chinese horseshoe crab is much bigger than the round-tailed horseshoe crab's head. In addition, according to the research of the medical profession in the world, eating horseshoe crabs is very harmful to health and life safety.
At present, both the Chinese horseshoe crab and the round-tailed horseshoe crab have been listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species for 2012, and as a state-protected animal, the sale and purchase of horseshoe crabs and the consumption of horseshoe crabs are in fact a violation of the law.