Bighead

the only species of carp-shaped carp in the genus Yako. Also known as flower slugs, black slugs, jaundrels, fatheads, bighead fish. The body is flat; the head is large; the eyes are small, the side is lower; the mouth is large, the end position, the jaw is tilted upward; no need; the crucible is arranged thinly but not connected, there is a spiral-shaped upper body; the abdomen has a cortical abdominal shuttle between the abdominal fin base and the anus only; the pectoral fin is long, the end is far above the abdominal fin base; the upper half of the back and sides are slightly black, the abdomen is white, there are many black spots on the side;





It is distributed in eastern Asia, the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River basins. Living in flowing water or large still water lake ponds, for the warm temperative plain area of the upper middle-class large fish, not good jump. Natural yield is large. Eat plankths.


5



mature, in the river water temperature






27
rafting eggs are produced at the rapids at a time of
degrees C, and the spawning period in the Yangtze River is 5 to 7


October. Large fish weigh up to

40


kg.






is one of the four main farmed fish in China,

.


rapid

,
disease is less, is an excellent farmed fish, a winter fish body length of 100 135




,




300


to

500
mm

0.5

br to br to 1 br
kg;

4


up to

10


kg. Ponds, reservoirs and lakes in eastern China are widely housed.