Salmon is not only nutritious, but also has a very profound cultural history.
There are many legends about salmon. The Oroqen people living by the Huma River have a beautiful legend. It is said that a long time ago, people living by the Huma River had no food to eat and no clothes to wear, and their lives were very hard.
One year there was another severe disaster and the poor people were almost starving to death.
At this moment, a handsome and kind-hearted Oroqen youth stood up and wanted to find a way to rescue the people who were suffering here.
He rode his beloved hunting horse and walked a long way before finally meeting the Khan of Man. He asked the Khan to help rescue the suffering people along the Huma River.
King Man Khan came to the Huma River on a beautiful boat and threw handfuls of salt into the river. The river immediately caused huge waves and suddenly many big fish appeared. The fish came to eat the salt.
These fish that are eating the salt are salmon.
From then on, people living along the Huma River began to catch salmon to eat. The delicious fish meat not only helped them survive the disaster year safely, but also made their lives gradually better.
In addition, it is said that during the Tang Dynasty, the King of Tang led his troops on an expedition to the east. During the White Dew season, they were besieged by the enemy on the banks of the Heilongjiang River. They had no food or fodder, and their men and horses were starving, putting them in a desperate situation.
At the critical moment, Li Shimin accepted the advice of a minister and wrote an urgent memorial to the Jade Emperor, asking the Dragon King of the East China Sea to borrow fish to solve the urgent problem. The Jade Emperor granted the request, and the Dragon King of the East China Sea immediately sent a dragon to deliver the fish to the Emperor.
The next day, the soldiers looked at the river full of salmon and cheered because they had fish to eat.
Horses don't originally eat fish, but because of hunger, they have to eat fish with humans.
After the famine was over, people began to call salmon "salmon".
Of course, these are just myths and legends. Whether true or false, they have certainly been artistically processed.
But one thing is true.
That is the meat of salmon, which is really delicious. Not only do people love to eat it, but horses also eat it.
Xiang Yang pondered whether he should chase after it and catch the salmon.
Salmon is known for its delicious meat and rich nutrition, and has always been regarded as a precious fish.
Heilongjiang River in my country is known as the "home of salmon".
As a type of salmon, salmon is a world-famous economic fish. A pound of wild salmon can be sold for thousands of dollars.
Most importantly, salmon contains 5 mg of natural astaxanthin per kilogram of fish.
Farmed salmon usually costs only about 30 to 40 yuan per pound, because farmed salmon does not contain astaxanthin.
Astaxanthin is the reason why eating salmon has powerful physical effects. If you eat salmon for a long time, it is basically impossible to get heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
Astaxanthin is the strongest antioxidant discovered. Eskimos who eat wild salmon for a long time basically have no heart disease, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, etc., and they have super physical strength.
Salmon meat has the functions of replenishing deficiency, strengthening the spleen and stomach, warming the stomach and harmonizing the middle. It can cure emaciation, edema, indigestion and other symptoms.
The fish can also be canned or dry-salted, smoked and frozen, and is delicious when steamed, fried or grilled.
What makes Xiang Yang even more excited is that salmon not only has delicious meat, but its roe is even more valuable.
The roe of salmon is much larger than that of ordinary fish, with a diameter of about 7 mm. It is bright red and transparent, just like amber. It has extremely high nutritional value and is an excellent raw material for making caviar.
Salted fish roe is rich in protein and lecithin, which plays an important role in supplementing the human body's nerve cells and preventing fat metabolism disorders. It is known as a nutritional product.
However, it is very difficult to catch a salmon in the sea, especially an adult salmon.
Adult salmon are very ferocious. They will actively attack any creature within their attack range, and they will even dare to touch the whiskers of a shark.
And the young salmon are even more untouchable.
As early as 2017, salmon was listed as an important economically protected fish by our country. It is your ability to catch an adult salmon, but if you dare to catch a juvenile salmon, you will be in trouble.
The salmon seemed to have escaped, but Xiang Yang actually knew that it was hiding under a rugged reef, quietly observing him.
Salmon is a very greedy predator, but also a very pitiful survivor. They are in a very awkward position in the food pyramid. Those stronger than them are basically their natural enemies. Astaxanthin is something that all marine creatures desire very much, while those weaker than them are basically their food.
Xiang Yang glanced at the protective gloves and protective clothing on his hands, struggled for a moment, but ultimately did not believe Professor Chen Yu.
Although Professor Chen Yu repeatedly emphasized that the diving suit Xiang Yang was wearing could resist the bite of sharks, Xiang Yang still felt that being bitten by a salmon would be very painful, so he chose to let the salmon go.
Choosing to ignore the salmon, Xiang Yang continued searching the seabed.
Xiang Yang discovered that in addition to the abundant brain flower corals, there were only a few salmon and a few cold-water and warm-water fish on the seabed.
On the contrary, there are many crustaceans such as clams in this sea area.
Xiang Yang was not interested in seafood such as clams and scallops. He was planning to get some brain coral.
"call!"
A huge black shadow swam rapidly from a distance, and it was unexpectedly the male humpback whale among the two humpback whales.
Xiang Yang was a little surprised.
Since the addition of the killer whales, the two humpback whales rarely bother Xiang Yang and his crew members anymore.
That killer whale has now become a tool whale that specializes in cleaning barnacles from the two humpback whales. In fact, the killer whale itself has a lot of barnacles on its body, which requires Xiang Yang to clean every now and then.
It has to be said that the intelligence of killer whales is far superior to that of humpback whales.
Although humpback whales are more powerful in combat, they do not know how to clean the barnacles off each other's bodies. Sometimes, a small barnacle can take the life of a humpback whale.
On the contrary, the killer whale, although known as the god of the sea, has a very good brain and muscles are only auxiliary. They know how to clean the barnacles off each other's bodies.
Soon, Xiang Yang knew what the male humpback whale was going to do.
I saw a group of salmon coming out from under the water plants and reefs, gathering together and fleeing frantically into the distance.
Xiang Yang immediately understood that this male humpback whale must have come for the astaxanthin in the salmon.