河豚鱼的皮肤、内脏和血液有剧毒,人们误食后会中毒致死。但因肉质鲜美,许多人仍争相食用,故有拼死吃河豚之说。如今,河豚鱼不仅已成为一种美食,畅销国内外市场;而且还可提炼河豚毒素,制成镇痛药剂,造福人类。所以,河豚鱼的市场需求增加,价格上扬。养殖河豚鱼比养殖其它品种的鱼,可获得更多的利润。 Puffer fish skin, visceral and blood are highly toxic, people will poison after eating lethal. However, due to the delicious meat, many people are still competing for food, so they have eaten puffer fish. Today, puffer fish has not only become a gourmet, selling domestic and foreign markets; but also extract tetrodotoxin, analgesics made for the benefit of mankind. Therefore, puffer fish market demand increased, the price goes up. Breeding puffer fish can produce more profit than breeding other species of fish.