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Life Center / Reported by Liao Lihui
At Taitung Lanyu, a member of the audience put the big fish they caught in the PO group and gave the camera a compliment. However, this fish is not small, as it is suspected to be an extremely precious curved-lipped fish (scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus) known as the “Dragon King Snapper”. Experts also say that the hunted curly lipped fish is already an adult fish. It is quite rare to see such a large wild lipstick fish in the waters of Taiwan.
▲ The man suspected that he would hunt the dragon king bream. (Image / Rotating screen)
A man from Lanyu shared a group photo, and he saw his left hand praised, and the other hand was placed on a huge fish, he looked quite proud, but sharp-eyed people were surprised to see him because of this tail. The fish is suspected to be a preserved dragon bream. In this regard, Xu Jiahao, director of the Taitung County Department of Agriculture, said that after verification, this fish is a king dragon bream. It has been listed as an endangered conservation animal in the world since the ROC in 103. Taiwan also listed it as a top-tier species a few years ago. For the conservation-related varieties, if the later situation is true, the county government will cooperate with the police and administrative units to send relevant physical evidence to the relevant units for processing. .
In fact, a similar incident occurred in 2016. A man surnamed Chen in Taitung Ludao was also caught hunting the dragon bream. Although Chen Nan claimed it was related to his vision and killed the dragon bream by mistake, the Taichung Court did. He does not accept your statement. He sentenced him to 6 months in prison and a 300,000 yuan fine.
Zheng Mingxiu, a researcher at Academia Sinica: “This fish is relatively intelligent. It can live to be 40 or 50 years old, weigh up to 200 kilograms and then grow up to 229 cm in length, making it a fairly large coral reef fish. “
In July 2014, the Executive Yuan Agriculture Committee listed the scalloped lip fish (or wavy lip fish, dragon king bream and sumei fish) as a precious and rare wild conservation animal, and it was also listed as an endangered species of extinction by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
▲ The dragon bream is quite rare. (Image / Rotating screen)
According to the “Center for Environmental Information”, the lipstick fish, which can live between 45 and 50 years, was once an important fish for food, but has been difficult to see due to overfishing. The Taiwan Coral Reef Society noted that only the wild population exists. The remaining 20 are currently only in the waters of Kenting, Ludao and Lanyu. Scholar Chen Zhengping also revealed in an interview in 2013 that after nearly 10 years of diving observation, the probability of spotting lipfish in marine areas is close to zero.
In accordance with Article 18 of the Wildlife Conservation Law, wild conservation animals must be protected and will not be harassed, mistreated, hunted, slaughtered or used in any other way. Violators will be sentenced to a fixed term imprisonment of not less than 6 months but not more than 5 years, and a fine of NT $ 300,000 to NT $ 1 million.
The news was forwarded to the local Lanyu community. Netizens said, “Oh, speechless, what kind of level is this?”, “It’s really embarrassing,” “Since it’s a conservation category, please don’t shoot,” “It seems we need to strengthen animal conservation . Announced. ”Some people in the area pointed out,“ That kind of fish is in a group on Orchid Island. ”“ This is Taiwan conservation. Don’t use your team to hold us back. Let me tell you that this type of fish is in Lanyu. “
