The perch is most famous for the perch of Songjiang, which is only produced under the Xiuye Bridge outside the West Gate of Songjiang County, Shanghai, and has been famous throughout the country since the Wei and Jin dynasties, and is one of the four famous fish in China.
The head and anterior part of the body are broad and flattened, tapering backwards and flattened laterally. During the breeding season, there are two orange-red oblique bands on the operculum membrane on the side of the head of the adult fish, which resembles four gill lobes exposed, hence the name "fourgill perch". Its flesh is snow-white, tender and fat, without fine burrs, and the taste is delicious.
With the increase of sluice and dam construction projects, the migration route of Songjiang perch has been destroyed, and the water source is seriously polluted, and Songjiang perch was extinct in Shanghai more than 40 years ago. At present, Songjiang perch has been successfully artificially raised in bulk and put on the table, but the price is relatively expensive, the first market was once as high as several thousand yuan a catty, now about a few hundred yuan a tail, and our daily food, low price of perch is mostly flower perch.
It should be noted that Songjiang perch is listed as a national second-class protected animal, and according to the regulations, the second generation of artificially bred offspring can be edible. Due to the appearance characteristics of the species is easy to distinguish from the ordinary perch, the phenomenon of fake and real is not common in the market, and it is generally supplied to the designated cooking hotel of the fourgill perch (the official website of Shanghai fourgill perch company can be checked), you can go to taste, or you can go to the fourgill perch breeding base to buy.
Place of purchase: designated cooking hotel, breeding base
