Large yellow croaker.
Ningde, Fujian Province is the most famous for its large yellow croaker. The large yellow croaker is China's "national fish", also known as yellow croaker, cucumber fish and croaker. Because of its golden body color and orange lips, the people regard it as a mascot and praise it as "Longevity Fish" and "Miss Yellow Fish". The birthplace of China's artificial breeding of large yellow croaker and the domestic large yellow croaker nursery and breeding base, it has created cage and earth pond breeding models with more than 300,000 cages. At the same time, it is promoting new models such as fences and large cages, and its products have passed Pollution-free food certification. The annual output is 40,000 tons, accounting for 70% of the country's output and 80% of the export volume, exported to South Korea, Hong Kong, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions. Ningde, commonly known as Mindong, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, the hometown of China's giant yellow croaker, and a national garden city. It is located on the coast of the northeastern wing of Fujian Province and in the eastern Fujian region. It faces the East China Sea to the east, faces Taiwan across the sea, Nanping to the west, the provincial capital Fuzhou City to the south, and Zhejiang to the north. It is the city closest to the "Yangtze River Delta" in Fujian.