Bulging pufferfish are inexplicably cute.
Chinese folk have always had the saying of "desperately eating pufferfish", but this ancient saying is not a problem at all to the Fugu people. Under the leadership of the staff, the tourists ate the liver of the pufferfish that was freshly fished and killed, and nothing happened, leaving only a delicate and mellow taste - this is a shot of the documentary "Taming Iron Tooth Steel Tooth Poison Fish And Making Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Every Year" broadcast by CCTV7.
It is exactly three years since the documentary was broadcast. As the largest pufferfish industry base in Asia, Dalian Fugu Group has created thousands of tons of international exports of pufferfish every year. What happened to businesses after the pandemic? Go into the countryside to see revitalization and unlock the happiness code. On June 22, a delegation composed of media reporters and staff of Dalian Rural Commercial Bank came to Fugu Group located on the seashore of Dazheng Town, Zhuanghe.
Is it a pufferfish, or a pufferfish?
With a wave of the net, it plunged into the water, and when it was lifted, there was a more pufferfish jumping inside. Seeing the worker's two hands gently poking and prodding under its gills, the fish bulged like a blow until it bulged into a round ball- the pufferfish was "gaseous" and, when attacked, would prop itself into a ball by drinking water or swallowing air. Because of the cute appearance of the bulge, it is often made into an emoji.
Pufferfish, or pufferfish? This is a clear distinction, right?
Is it a "pufferfish" or a "pufferfish"? In ancient times, "pufferfish" and "pufferfish" referred to the same kind of fish, generally referring to the genus of bony fish, pufferfish, and pufferfish. Dalian people call it "Boat Ba Elbow", Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas call it "Puffer Fish", Hebei called "Latou", and Guangdong called "Good Fish". However, in modern times, we all know that "pufferfish" is a generic reference to cute cetacean mammals that live in freshwater, such as finless porpoises and baiji dolphins. So it is more accurate to use "pufferfish".
"Desperately eating pufferfish" actually includes another meaning - pufferfish are delicious, even if they fight to the death, they have to eat. The most famous story comes from the foodie Su Dongpo. When he was demoted to Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, he was not sullen because of his unsatisfactory career, but went everywhere looking for delicious food. One day, he was invited to the home of a scholar, one of the delicacies was pufferfish, Su Dongpo only clipped a chopstick and was deeply fascinated, shouting "It is also worth dying"!
The pufferfish here move twice a year
The Tudor pufferfish is poisonous, but in fact, the pufferfish itself is not poisonous. "Pufferfish are slow in movement and have weak feeding ability, and can only eat crustaceans, shellfish, algae and so on. Many of these creatures are poisonous and slowly enriched in pufferfish. Zhang Huiying, deputy director of the office of Tomiya Group, said that in the 1980s, the founder of Tomiya, who was originally engaged in the shrimp farming industry, found a huge business opportunity when he came into contact with the Japanese market, and since then he has set a vision of "letting high-end pufferfish flow to the table of the Chinese people". In the early 1990s, he introduced eggs from the redfin oriental pufferfish from Japan and began artificial farming. The focus of scientific research is on non-toxic tests. Starting from the food chain, the source of toxins is artificially cut off through toxic control technologies such as artificial breeding, fry rearing, deep-water cage culture, and indoor circulating water overwintering. Today, all Tomiya river pufferfish entering the market are tested for non-toxicity and must be handled by qualified technicians before being sold. Redfin Oriental Puffers Quick-Frozen Fish Meat, Fish Elbows, Fish Balls, Dumplings, Hot Pot Ingredients, Masks, etc., have developed hundreds of varieties.
In the spring, summer and autumn seasons, the baby fish spend their time at the national marine ranch located on Neptune Nine Islands (video screenshot).
"Before the epidemic, 50% of our products were exported, and now most of them are domestic sales." In the modern fishery ecological park, rows of circulating pools are full of redfin oriental pufferfish, sprinkled with a handful of bait, and the water splashes on the water. "This batch of fish is mainly used for sale and display, and the large troops spend the summer on the marine ranch." Zhang Huiying introduced a new word "sea and land relay aquaculture". This means that tofuya farms a variety of precious sea treasures such as redfin oriental pufferfish, yellow amberjack, and large bamboo seven-mackerel, which undergo two "moves" in a year. With a temperature of 15 °C ~ 22 °C as appropriate, in the spring, summer and autumn, all the sea treasures take a car to the marine ranch located on the nine islands of Neptune, and eat, swim and grow in the sea; Winter is cold, and millions of babies have to take a boat ride back to the ecological park and stay in the indoor circulation pool. It takes about a month to move once! And the growth cycle of the redfin oriental pufferfish is one and a half years! This is also an important reason why the pufferfish produced at 39 degrees north latitude is delicious.
Digital fisheries help rural revitalization
Among the more than 3,000 geographical indication agricultural products in the country, Dalian occupies 63 seats. "Dalian Ezo scallops", "Dalian redfin oriental pufferfish", "Dalian wakame", "Zhuanghe variegated clams", "Zhuanghe oysters", "Pulandian grasshoppers", "Ocean Island sea cucumbers", "Wafangdian shrimp skins" and other aquatic products are among them.
Dalian redfin oriental pufferfish has developed rapidly in breeding, processing, scientific research, logistics, catering, leisure fisheries and other aspects. Fugu Group has a total land and sea area of 2660 hectares, of which 38,000 acres of marine ranch, is the national redfin Oriental pufferfish breeding farm, the national agricultural industrialization key leading enterprises, the annual output of up to 2000 tons.
In the science popularization base with an investment of 10 million yuan, the reporter saw a large screen. "After being put into use, visitors can stand here and see the national marine ranch of Neptune Nine Islands, as well as the functional areas of the ecological park." This is the specific practice of Zhuanghe's implementation of digital fishery projects, and it is also an attempt to integrate fishery production and processing with leisure tourism. Visitors can learn about a variety of rare fish and learn about the ocean. The digital fisheries project also includes the construction of an e-commerce platform to boost zhuanghe local specialties to the whole country, benefit the townships, and achieve revitalization.
Agriculture-related loans help enterprises tide over difficulties
"Marine aquatic products, green agriculture, and ecological tourism are the pillar industries of Zhuanghe, and at present, more than 90% of the total loans of the Zhuanghe branch of Dalian Rural Commercial Bank are agriculture-related loans." According to the relevant person in charge of the Zhuanghe Branch of Dalian Rural Commercial Bank, the first loan of Fugu occurred 5 years ago, which was a working capital loan of 50 million yuan for the procurement of raw seedlings in the modern fishery ecological park. At present, Tomigu is increasing investment in marine ranching and will further cooperate with rural commercial banks. The injection of financial "living water" has helped Fugu achieve a qualitative leap from basic breeding and processing to the coordinated development of the first, second and third industries. The two major bases of this enterprise have more than 1,000 employees alone, which is conducive to solving the local employment pressure; At the marine ranch of Neptune Nine Islands, Tomigu provides seedlings for farmers, leads the islanders to get rich, and plays the social responsibility of leading enterprises.
The reporter learned that the cold chain industry in Zhuanghe accounts for 70% of the total industrial output of Dalian, 50% of Liaoning Province, and 30% of the whole country. Last year's 11.03 epidemic has caused the industry to suffer a lot, and since this year, the Zhuanghe Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have included helping cold chain enterprises resume work and production into the focus of work. The Zhuanghe Branch of Dalian Rural Commercial Bank gives credit to agriculture-related and fishery-related enterprises that meet the requirements and have promising development prospects, which can be used as soon as they are used and recycled, and has supported nearly 2 billion yuan in the aquatic products processing industry alone.
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Tomiya's "Happiness Code"
From the beginning of the 1990s to the current annual creation of hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth, this company has experienced many difficulties. The founder was so embarrassed that he couldn't afford to eat, and he also lost millions of yuan at once. It should be known that in the 1990s, river fish in China was still a "no-flow into the market" product. It was not until 2016 that the state "conditionally liberalized" aquaculture and processing operations. Tomiya's happiness code is persistence, indomitable under the forward-looking eyes. (Photo/ Dalian News Media Group reporter Yifan)