Japanese folklore claims that carp - fish, have a special wisdom, so she and honor the father of all here present in the water realm of large and small fish.
One of the reasons that formed this opinion, is the breadth of its natural distribution.Conventionally, it is divided into two areas, which includes the rivers of the Far East, Southeast Asian rivers, including the Amur - in the north and Yunnan - in southern China, as well as all the water resources of the Ponto-Caspian-Aral Sea basin.Although people resettled this fish is much broader.So today the European carp - fish that inhabits abundantly not only fresh, but brackish water pools almost all the seas, from the North Sea and the Caspian to the Mediterranean and Black.Her lot in the Lake Issyk-Kul.Lake Baikal, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Altay carp became rich thanks to their resettlement in these regions in the middle of the XIX century.Carp is a commercial fish species in the Aral and Baikal basins.
Another reason, perhaps, is that the great family of carp that inhabit almost all the lakes and reservoirs of the earth, bred by breeders, and they served as the basis for the fish carp.Picture it this bolshelobogo, with two pairs of antennae positioned in the corners of the mouth, small eyes and a long dorsal fin, demonstrates their great similarity.
carp's body is covered with a dense golden scales.Each of them seemed painted.It is bordering on the edge of tochechek turning into black stripes and one large dark spot in the center.Common carp - fish survivor.The growth of its last seven or eight years, and life expectancy is twenty years.The length of the body there may exceed more than one meter.So often there is a catch when one reaches the big fish weight at sixteen or even thirty-five kilograms.
Japanese sages say of some people that they are "clever as carp", because the habits of the fish is really amazing.It's - well-developed sense of smell and touch, which the authorities are not only the antennae at the mouth, but also on the abdomen, on the anal fins and gills.It has the ability to turn off his lips into a tube carp.Fish in this case may involve a larvae and worms in the mud zaglublёnnyh half a meter.On the sidelines of his body are organs serving to distinguish at a distance of more than ten meters slightest fluctuations in water movement formed bloodworms, flounder in the mud at a depth of forty centimeters.Very keen eyesight is carp.The fresh clear water any object within a radius of ten meters under his scrutiny.
As a valuable commercial species, carp today - fish recipes that are hundreds.From it is prepared cooking, canning, smoked, salted and pickled food.The reason for that - a very tasty meat of this fish.Traditionally, it is fried, boiled soup, jelly, smoked hot or cold way, marinated with onions and vinegar.Canneries produce two kinds of products: meat carp in oil and in tomato sauce.Recently there have been blanched canned fish with oil.
