[Haichuan Food Talk] When the sun comes to Sichuan, is it another delicacy?

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“Sunfish are native to North America. There are about 30 species distributed in rivers, lakes and other waters from Ontario and Quebec in Canada to the Great Lakes system of the United States, as well as in many southern states in the United States and northern Mexico. ”Zhao Li, director of the Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum, said that sunfish mainly eat zooplankton and aquatic insects, but also eat aquatic plants, small miscellaneous fish and small molluscs. In addition, sunfish not only have a variety of food habits, but also have wide adaptability, high group yield, and can reproduce naturally. “Sunfish is a small, warm-water fish with a wide temperature range for growth. It can live in water temperatures of 1°C to 38°C. It can still survive the winter safely in the natural environment with a water temperature of 2°C. In southern my country, this fish can survive the winter naturally. ”Zhao Li said. The relevant self-media published an article saying that the sunfish is coming in a menacing manner and has been found in many places in Sichuan. In fact, as early as September 24, 2019, when the Fisheries Research Institute of the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences was conducting an aquatic biodiversity resource survey in the Wumutan Reservoir in Dazhu County, Sichuan Province, 9 fish specimens were collected in the Wumutan Reservoir. Their shapes were suspected to be sunfish. They were later identified as blue sunfish, belonging to the order Perciformes, the family Acanthopteridae, and the genus Sunfish.