China is the earliest country in the world to raise fish (Chinese ornamental fish)

China is the earliest country in the world to raise fish, and it is also the first country to raise ornamental fish. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, someone once discovered in the Ezhou area of ​​Hubei Province that there were schools of patterned fish playing in the water in the Yangtze River, which could be raised as ornamental fish. But for more than a thousand years, Chinese ornamental fish species have been developed around changes in goldfish species. Although there are some rare and valuable fish products that have been successfully cultivated or raised in my country, such as koi, Tang fish, betta fish, mosquito fish, etc., they are all small in scale or have extremely limited distribution areas. Although koi is as famous as goldfish, after being introduced to Japan, it was improved and cultivated in Japan and became Japan's "national fish". In recent decades, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards and the development of foreign trade, China's ornamental fish research, cultivation and breeding technology, and breeding scale have made great progress. Many species that were originally wild have also been developed into Ornamental fish, such as mullet, flowered catfish, mandarin fish, long thin catfish, yellow catfish, plowshare catfish, moon catfish, etc. At present, there are no fewer than fifty species of freshwater fish in China that are raised as ornamental fish, especially many tropical and subtropical fish in the southern mountainous areas. They are brightly colored and graceful, and are highly appreciated in the international market. In the ornamental fish competition held at the "First International Ornamental Fish and Aquarium Equipment Exhibition and Ornamental Fish Industry Seminar" held in Singapore in June 1989, China's domestic long thin loach (Yangtze River rat) and mullet fish (Dafan Sanjian) , and giant salamander (salamfish) won the first, second, and third prizes in each category respectively.

At present, there are only a few types of ornamental fish developed and utilized in our country, and most of them are taken from the southern mountainous areas. There are quite a lot of fish species that have the conditions to be exploited as ornamental fish, such as many species of the subfamily Brahminidae, the family Loachidae, the family Loachidae, the genus Antilidae, the subfamily Loachidae, as well as perch and pike in the cold zone. development prospects.

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