Lu Jinxing, chief reporter of Peninsula All-Media
On the morning of April 3, trucks and cranes were busy at the docks of Hongdao Fishing Port, and a boat of fresh clams landed at the port. The Red Island Wharf, which resumed work and production, currently lands about 100,000 kilograms of clams a day, just one-fifth of the same period last year. "Affected by the epidemic, this spring clam production is significantly less than the same period last year, the previous few days directly stopped work, now Qingdao epidemic situation is better, the market is open, we have also begun to produce clams, but the field still can not pull out, so the output can not come up at present." Mr. Zhang, a big clam farmer, told reporters.
Fishing boats pull back into bales of clams.
Trucks waiting to pull clams on the docks in the morning had lined up, and fishing boats returning to the harbor were coming ashore with bags of clams. A merchant said, "The current price is 4.5 yuan a catty, we wholesale after selection and then pull on the market, the price can basically double." "It is understood that the clams are not the fattest time at present, but the taste is still very good, and the price this year is slightly higher than last year, mainly affected by rising costs and starfish disasters." The reporter saw at the scene that the wholesale clam scene can be said to be very hot, each truck pulls at least 1,800 pounds, and 1200 pounds of small households are directly not "welcomed". Hongdao farmers up to hundreds of households, mainly distributed in the south of Hongdao, the eastern ocean, the western ocean, Suliu these villages, breeding area reached more than 20,000 acres, the current Qingdao epidemic situation is good, and has been "picking stars", farmers are also seizing the time to resume work and production, they hope that the whole country as soon as possible to defeat the epidemic, but also to increase production, so that the red island clams to the whole country.
Trucks wait at the docks, ready to load clams for shipment.
The docks are full of trucks pulling clams.
The fishing boats are full of clams, waiting to be hoisted.
Busy Red Island Fishing Port Marina in the early morning.
The filled clams on the docks will be transported to the market.
Clam loading.
Packs of clams are hoisted ashore.
Fishing boats returning from the sea.
Clams are in demand, and merchants go straight to the boat to pack.
Packed clams.
In the wharf of The Fishing Port of Red Island, fishing boats are arranged in an orderly manner.