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Fish of China. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fish of China. The freshwater and marine Fish which are native— indigenous to China and its adjacent oceans and seas. When the distribution range in China is known please also use Category: Fish of East Asia (most provinces) and Category: Fish of Central Asia (westernmost provinces).
Asian carp is a grouping of fishes commonly used to mean silver, bighead carp, white and black amur, [note 1] which are regarded invasive in the United States.These four species, also known as copi, are native to China where they are collectively known as qing cao lian yong (青草鲢鳙) or si da jia yu (四大家鱼, "Big Four domesticated fish") [note 2] and are farmed for food.
The grass carp ( Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a species of large herbivorous freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, native to the Pacific Far East, with a native range stretching from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Sino-Russian border. [ 2] This Asian carp is the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon .
In addition to the different types of fish, Cantonese salted fish can be divided into two main types: méi-xiāng (Chinese: 霉香; Cantonese Yale: mui4 heung1) and shí-ròu (Chinese: 實肉; Cantonese Yale: sat6 yuk6). For méi-xiāng (fragrant) salted fish, fish with thicker bodies such as Scomberomorus (jiaoyu (鮫魚)) and mayau are preferred.
Siniperca chuatsi is both a popular game fish among anglers and a commercially important species in China, as it is a popular food fish and has been widely farmed in its native range since the 20th century. It first gained major popularity during the Tang dynasty (618–907 A.D.), appearing in many Chinese books and poems. [ 3]
The Chinese rice fish ( Oryzias sinensis) is a species of fish in the genus Oryzias. This freshwater fish occurs in swamps, stagnant parts of streams, rice fields and marshes, and is up to 3.1 cm (1.2 in) long. [2] It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Japanese rice fish ( Oryzias latipes ). [1]
Fish total. 49.5 million tonnes (54,600,000 tons) (2005) China, with one-fifth of the world's population, accounts for two-thirds of the world's reported aquaculture production. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Aquaculture is the farming of fish and other aquatic life in enclosures, such as ponds, lakes and tanks, or cages in rivers and coastal waters.
In Chinese the fish is known as 唐魚 (táng yu), 廣東細鯽 (Guǎngdōng xìjì), or 潘氏細鯽 (pānshì xìjì). Aphyocypris pooni is an obsolete synonym for this species; it was coined to designate a color variety which is now known to be the same species as the White Cloud Mountain minnow.