Gucheng Lake crab, Qinhu crab, and Panjin river crab are all famous crabs.

Gucheng Lake crabs

The Gucheng Lake hairy crabs produced in Nanjing are also the richest among hairy crabs. It is China’s first well-known aquatic product trademark and the first Chinese national geographical indication product. It is not Yangcheng Lake hairy crab. In the early years of the Republic of China, Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous doctors in Beijing, was a well-known glutton for crabs. He divided the crabs produced in various places into six grades, namely lake crabs, river crabs, river crabs, river crabs, Among the ditch crabs and sea crabs, lake crabs are the first among them, and Gucheng Lake crabs are ranked first among crabs by him.

Gucheng Lake has a wide water area, clear water quality, and luxuriant aquatic plants. It has a unique foundation for producing good crabs. It is said that Gucheng Lake hairy crabs pay attention to three types of meat and three vegetables (snails, small fish, shrimps, pumpkins, corns, and aquatic plants) when feeding them to provide sufficient nutrients for the growth of the crabs. Coupled with scientific breeding methods, it is difficult for Gucheng Lake crabs to taste delicious.

Qinhu crabs

Qinhu crabs can be said to be very special. Qinhu Lake is located in Jiangyan, Jiangsu. The hairy crabs here have a special name: crabs. The word "疖" was specially coined for Qin Lake. "疖" is a kind of fishing gear made of bamboo branches or reed stalks woven into a fence and placed upright in the water to cut off the passage of fish and crabs and then catch them.

The magic of "Qinhu Crabs" is that in February and March every year, crabs hatch and hatch at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Place. Qin Lake has good water quality, a wide area and abundant food, and the mudflats along the coast are suitable for crabs to live in caves, so young crabs like to settle in Qin Lake. However, the crabs at this time cannot be called "簖 crabs".

When around the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs that have given birth to large, round-waisted crabs that live here begin to swim back to the estuary of the Yangtze River to mate and lay eggs (yes, although hairy crabs spend most of their lives in fresh water, But they must return to the sea to breed. However, for artificially cultured hairy crabs, artificial seawater can be used to stimulate hairy crabs to mate and breed.) As soon as the swimming crabs encountered the trap, they changed their paths and crawled to higher places on both sides. After climbing over the trap, one by one fell into the bamboo basket. Only those crabs that have climbed over the bamboo are called crabs. If they were not fat and strong, they would not be able to climb up the bamboo. Therefore, all crabs are fat and strong, and have great strength. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been "Chenghu hairy crabs in the south and Qinhu crabs in the north", which are known as "South Zhabei crabs".

Nowadays, Qinhu crab breeding generally adopts artificial release and natural reproduction, no feeding, and low-density stocking. Usually, crabs do not need to be fed at all. They feed on aquatic plants, plankton and snails. When crabs are shelled, crab farmers usually put in some marine fish, which will make the crabs taste sweeter.

Panjin river crab

In a world almost dominated by Jiangsu crabs, Liaoning Panjin crabs can be said to be the most popular crabs in the north. Panjin is actually one of the three traditional producing areas of river crabs in my country, and has always been known as the "Crab Capital". It faces the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea. It has a vast sea area and sufficient seawater for hairy crabs to be born. The inland water network is deep and there are sufficient freshwater resources for them to grow. The geographical conditions are excellent.

Based on differences in growth environments, Panjin river crabs include rice field crabs and wetland river crabs. The most common one is rice field crab. As the name suggests, it refers to crabs raised in rice fields. Rice field crabs are generally fed artificial feed to grow, so they are fatter. Wetland river crabs grow in wetlands and are completely wild. They eat natural small fish, shrimps, aquatic plants and microorganisms. Therefore, they are full of game, and every crab season, they are also full of yellow paste.