Chagan Lake winter head fish 20 years the price of more than 3,000 times, the cause of this phenomenon is what?

Every year at the end of December, in the Chagan Lake frozen lake, fishermen will use the ice pick in the lake surface chiseled hundreds of ice holes, and then use the principle of threading a needle, according to the connecting line between the ice holes, surrounded by several kilometers of fishing nets, and then use the horse-drawn winches to collect nets to catch fish. The winter fishing spectacle of Chagan Lake is listed as China's national intangible cultural heritage. The auction of the first fish is a tradition in Chagan Lake. Every year, the first fish caught in the net is auctioned off as the biggest fish. Since the first headfish auction was held at Lake Chagan in 2003, the value of headfish has been rolling upwards.

If inflation is not taken into account, the price of the first fish has soared 2,161 times compared with the first auction of the first fish from Lake Chagan in 2003. Although the auction of Chagan Lake's winter catch has been a record-breaking event, questions about the fish coming out of Chagan Lake have emerged year after year. Many netizens even speculated that the fish here is a bath fish. The so-called bathing fish, it is from the field to transport the big fish, into the lake, raise a while and then fish up. The basis for everyone's speculation is that Chagan Lake has set a record for single-net fishing every year, and even if there are more fish, there is no room for this fishing method. Without the addition of foreign fish, it would have been exhausted.

But according to some local fish heads, Chagan Lake's inexhaustible supply of fish has to do with traditional local fishing and hunting methods. When fishing in Chagan Lake, there are strict regulations on the mesh size to ensure that the fish fry can escape the net and leave the future for Chagan Lake. On the other hand, Chagan Lake's fathead minnow is a local specialty, not found anywhere else but only produced here, and even if you want to give the fish a bath, you can't find anything like it. Unlike other waters, Chagan Lake, which is located in the alpine region of northeastern China, is a question of whether exotic freshwater fish can survive here. It is worth noting that Chagan Lake has historically dried up. In the 1950s and 1960s, Chagan Lake was still a small fishing village with a shrinking watershed and almost disappearing fish reeds. Since the 1970s, the local government has begun ecological management, and after decades of hard work, it has finally recovered.

The endless fishing in Chagan Lake stems from the local emphasis on ecology. Historically, Chagan Lake has been closed many times for fishing, and the fishermen are well aware of the fact that fishing is not depleted. The nets used for winter fishing here must be 6 inches or more to ensure that small fish are not missed. This year, the winter catch of Chagan Lake is limited to 3 million pounds, less than 1% of the lake's fish production. And since 1992, Chagan Lake annually put 10 million fish fry, so it is not that Chagan Lake can not catch enough fish, but it knows how to recuperate, the so-called bath fish into nonsense.