China Overseas Chinese Network, July 9th, title: Can crayfish be kept as pets in Japan?
Netizen: Take the bamboo shoots!
According to overseas news, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment held an expert meeting recently and basically agreed to designate crayfish as an invasive alien species. A formal proposal will be made in August.
If the proposal is passed, Japan will ban the import, sale and release of crayfish in the wild.
As soon as the news came out, it directly rushed to the hot search, which triggered a heated discussion among netizens:
"I'm not sleepy when I say this!"
"This is because they can't make crayfish, right?"
"Then the question is, is the garlic crayfish delicious or the spicy crayfish delicious?"
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What makes netizens even more "stunned" is that the Japanese Ministry of the Environment is currently discussing the specific details of the proposal, and the existing draft plan actually allows the public to keep crayfish as pets with permission!
However, it is forbidden to import, sell and release animals in the wild.
Some netizens are very puzzled about this:
"You keep crayfish as pets. Have you ever asked crayfish for your opinion?"
"How delicious is the crayfish, and there is not enough food to be a pet?"
It is reported that the reason for the "ban on crayfish" is that after crayfish were brought from the United States to Japan, they multiplied in ponds and other freshwater waters across Japan, resulting in a sharp decline in native species.
This led to the discussion of designating it as an invasive alien species.
Speaking of solving the problem of species proliferation and alien species aggression, our Chinese friends (huo) have always been actively active in the front line.
In early June, billions of "17-year cicadas" were unearthed in North America. In order to help Americans overcome the mentality of repelling insects, some food experts suggested that local people catch the cicadas and fry them for food, or use them to blow them up.
A chef in Washington, USA, did everything from capturing to making. The captured cicadas were fried in a fire to make cicada meat sushi.
When Chinese netizens saw this situation, they couldn’t sit still. They all offered help to their North American friends, such as "fried and eaten with alcohol", "this is the same as chicken taste, crunchy", and "can be made into protein bars." ", "It will be fragrant if you salt it for a while before frying"...
Although I don’t know if the American friends were inspired by Chinese netizens, they did produce cicada salad, cicada pizza, cicada cookies, cicada ramen, cicada sushi and other delicacies based on local characteristics, which became a feast of early summer food in North America.
The picture shows a chocolate chip cookie decorated with cicadas.
Even so, Chinese netizens still looked anxious: "Change to the Chinese, just ask you what level of rare and protected animals the United States intends to eat", "With us, the cicada will not survive the day when it is exposed to the ground", " I can eat one catty per person per meal"...
"Each party is in trouble, one party supports it." Our Chinese foodie netizens have a global vision. Before solving the cicadas in North America, we also actively "participated" in solving the problem of the flood of hairy crabs in Europe.
Two years ago, the Belgian government was worried about being "bald" because Chinese mitten crabs (commonly known as hairy crabs) "burrowed" on the canal bed in Bruges.
It is reported that this behavior of hairy crabs caused "serious damage" to Belgium's waterway system.
In order to solve the "crab disaster" problem, the Belgian government frowned and thought about it: send Chinese mitten crabs back to their hometown-China!
After learning of this news, Chinese netizens were very excited:
"Welcome the hairy crabs home!"
"In China, the natural enemy of hairy crabs is us!"
"Guaranteed to be endangered for 3 years!"
"Seriously, give me a chance, I can show you 100 ways to eat hairy crabs!"
Netizen comment screenshot
At that time, Victoria, Australia, was also facing the "crab disaster", because the European blue crab "invaded" Victoria in large numbers, and it has reached the level of flooding.
To this end, the Fisheries Bureau also issued a special message, calling on the general public: please go and catch blue crabs, no limit!
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Data map: blue crab.
Photo by Zheng Junpeng
A Chinese netizen looked at it, can I not give you any advice on this matter?
"Do you lack Chinese recipes?"
"Can you let me go quickly, I'm so anxious, I can bring my own ginger, onion and garlic!"
"I need help from the Chinese!"
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Seeing this, do you think Chinese netizens will only be anxious online?
Then you are wrong!
As early as 2013, when Germany was facing the problem of the flood of hairy crabs, we Chinese did a lot!
At that time, the German fishermen suffered from the invasion of hairy crabs, and finally thought of the good idea of selling hairy crabs to local Chinese restaurants.
After this, the Chinese people, who were thousands of miles away, extended their "helping hands" in time to support them across the ocean.
In August 2013, a domestic e-commerce platform also launched a pre-sale of German hairy crabs. In just a few days, it attracted 20,000 consumers to participate, and a total of 35,000 copies were booked, a total of more than 300,000 hairy crabs...
In fact, Chinese netizens face similar problems above, and the solution is very simple, just one word: eat!
In 2017, the Danish Embassy in China published a headline article "Oysters overgrown the coast, but the Danes are not happy at all" on its official Weibo account, seeking help from Chinese netizens to solve the problem of the proliferation of foreign oysters;
Screenshot of the Weibo of the Danish Embassy in China
Also in 2017, because of the overwhelming flood of Asian carp in Michigan, the United States, the local government did not hesitate to spend $1 million to find a solution. The Chinese netizens who learned the news at the time responded calmly: "It's a big deal, just eat it. Huh!"
In recent years, even Chinese aquatic products companies have even visited the United States for inspections, hoping to help the American people...
A few years ago, Scotland faced the problem of large numbers of crayfish invading local rivers and lakes. At that time, there was a "spectacle" of crossing the river with crayfish. The solution proposed by the Scottish government at that time was to trample these crayfish to death. Chinese foodies Because this thing was so anxious at the time, I didn't worry about it...
(Source: Overseas Network, China News, "Europe Times", US "Sing Tao Daily", US "World Journal", etc.; Author: Zeng Xiaowei; ID: qiaowangzhongguo)