What fish is the most expensive in the world?

Yellow-lipped fish swim bladder is said to be "as expensive as gold". 10 years ago, a man in Bawa Town, Cangnan County caught a yellow gan weighing six or seven kilograms and sold it for more than 10 million yuan.

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49 kg yellow-lipped fish

Sold 580 thousand

At the beginning of April last year, a fisherman in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province caught a yellow-lipped fish weighing 49 kilograms, which was later bought by a hotel for 580,000 yuan. The hotel cooked the fish, leaving a fish belly worth 2 million yuan and refusing to sell it.

Yellow-lipped fish is a national second-class protected aquatic animal, only distributed in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and is an endemic species in China.

Yellow-lipped fish is 1 ~ 1.5m long and 15 ~ 30kg heavy. It can reach more than 50 kilograms. Due to the scarcity of resources and the intensification of fishing intensity in coastal areas, it is now on the verge of extinction. Before liberation, yellow-lipped fish was often caught in the coastal areas of Zhejiang Province, which was regarded as the first-class tonic, especially fish fat (commonly known as "fish glue") was very precious and was praised as "as expensive as gold". (