Hooked on a Fortune: Ilan Fishermen Reel in Rare Flocks, Rake in the Profits
2024/9/21 15:36
(Updated at 9/21 16:21)
On the 21st, a fisherman surnamed Lin from Yilan (pictured) caught a rare live “Dragon Palace Weng Rong Luo” (commonly known as Dragon Palace Shell) with a diameter of about 20 cm and a height of about 15 cm above sea level. At a depth of about 120 to 200 meters off Guishan Island.
Rare ‘Dragon Palace Shell’ Caught Off Guishan Island
(Central News Agency reporter Shen Rufeng, Yilan County, 21st) A fisherman surnamed Lin from Yilan caught a rare live “Dragon Palace Weng Rong Luo” (commonly known as Dragon Palace Shell) off the coast of Guishan Island today, and will wait for the buyer to acquire it.
Fisherman surnamed Lin told a reporter from the Central News Agency that when he sailed a boat to conduct benthic trawling operations in the sea near Guishan Island this morning, he caught a fish about 20 centimeters in diameter and 15 centimeters high on the seabed. 120m to 200m Living Dragon Palace Shell.
A fisherman named Lin said he has caught dragon clams from Guishan Island for more than 20 years, but they are all small, less than 10 centimeters in diameter, and most of them sold for NT$30,000 to NT$80,000 in the past. Dragon Palace clams caught today should fetch a considerable price.
Longgong clam collector Zhang Yixian pointed out that Longgong clams distributed in Zhejiang, Penghu and northeastern waters of Taiwan should be priced based on whether the size and appearance are whole and good.
According to the pictorial data of Taiwan’s hundred species of marine animals of the Marine Commission, the “Dragon Palace Shell” has a large and stable conical shell shape similar to the Dragon Palace, so it is also called the Dragon Palace Shell. The surface of the shell is yellow-red with flame-like markings, and the shell face has a crack, which can be up to 30 cm wide. It appeared in the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era, about 570 million to 490 million years ago, flourished in the Mesozoic era, and gradually became extinct in the Cenozoic era.