Lobster fish is a catfish similar to an eel that lives in freshwater environments, the English name is Mastacembelus favus hora, belongs to the eel family. This fish comes from Southeast Asia in the lower reaches of the Mekong River such as Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. In Vietnam, scad appears in many rivers in the provinces of An Giang and Dong Thap.
Compared to the river stilts, the grasshopper’s skin is covered with a dark honeycomb pattern, and the number of hard spines and soft fingers on the snail’s fin is also less. The main food of fish is live food such as fish, crustaceans, insects that live on the bottom of rivers, canals and ponds.
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In the past, every year from July to October in the lunar calendar, when floodwaters overflowed, bringing with them the murky alluvial water, it was also a time when people in the West obtained many valuable natural products, where there were scads. . Today, this type of fish is very rare in nature, but because it brings economic value and is very nutritious, people here bring it back to be raised and sold to the market, earning hundreds of millions a year.
Tran Thanh Hung (Chau Thanh district, Hau Giang province) has more than 3 hectares of land that cultivates kite fish. He said the best time to breed scads is around February in the lunar calendar, which lasts until October in the lunar calendar. Currently, every year Pak Hung’s farm sells around 10 million seeds and 2 million seeds with the selling price of each fish ranging from 3,000-5,000 VND depending on the size. With meat products, he sells more than 10 tons/year, the selling price is between 200,000-300,000 VND/kg, every year minus all costs, he makes a profit of about 2 billion VND.
According to the survey, in the market there are 2 types of river scad and cultured kite. The type of river fish caught in the wild has tough and fatty meat so it is tastier than farmed fish, so it is more expensive but increasingly rare, very difficult to buy. According to fishermen, if you want to catch a large river kite, you should use a net or a trawler to catch it in a deep, fast-flowing river.
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At An Giang, skad grade 1 (weight 400g or more) costs from 450,000-500,000 VND/kg. This signature fish can make many delicious dishes, such as: tamarind hot pot, fried, grilled with salt and pepper, and especially the fresh braised turmeric fish dish.
And in the online market there are also several places that sell fish at different prices, the big ones are up to 350,000 VND/kg which are cultured fish. As a typical western fish seller in the online market, Ms. Binh Nguyen: “This fish is a specialty that is regularly ordered by many restaurants and restaurants in the province. After catching it from the pond, I clean it. Then freeze it and send it to customers. If it’s near me, I can put ice in a Styrofoam box to keep fish fresh. On average, my family exports a few dozen pounds of grasshoppers every day. This is a time of epidemic, so eating fish must be consumed. This is my family’s fish raised in a garden pond, without intermediaries so the price is cheaper, “said Mrs. Binh.
Hearing many people say that fish is very nutritious, Mrs. Giang Tran (HCMC) is seen buying and feeding her children. “2 years ago I bought 600,000 VND/kg, now the price is cheaper than before, but buying it is not easy. Especially now that most fish are farmed, but river fish are very rare,” said Ms. Giang.
Because it brings economic value, many people in the West have developed this particular fish farming model, providing a decent income.
According to Oriental medicine, in 100g of meat, there are 16.9g of Protit; 2g Lipids; 3.2g Glucose; 169mg Calcium; 327mg Phosphorus; 3.2mg Iron; Vitamins B1, B2, PP, E… are much appreciated by Eastern medicine in terms of health promotion and healing.
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