My home is in Zhoushan, by the sea, and I walked for ten minutes. If you are buying seafood, it will take 20 minutes to drive to the Zhoushan International Aquatic City Wharf in Shenjiamen.
Every year at this time, I drive to Hangzhou, colleagues close to my car, the smell of the sea can be smelled from afar - that's because recently every few days I will go to the dock to buy seafood and hoard seafood, and the smell of the trunk will not disappear for a long time.
From May 1, the East China Sea has been completely closed for fishing, and the longest fishing ban period has reached 4 and a half months.
Before that, my refrigerator was already stuffed with all kinds of seafood: small yellow croaker, pomfret, striped fish, shrimp, octopus, etc., and freshly peeled conch meat frozen in the freezer... On the balcony, dozens of ugly sturgeon were washed clean, and the wind blew and the sun became a mackerel, and during the long fishing ban, it would be made into a sturgeon and grilled meat.
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The food was seafood from the docks
The circle of friends is full of envy
These days, I post photos of Chinese food and dinner in the circle of friends, which attract a piece of praise: the meal is the seafood on the dock, which makes the friends salivate.
The driest ones are shrimp and snails. Shrimp is the most cost-effective in this season, and it is also the most I hoarded, hoarding 30 pounds. Go to the dock to buy, shrimp is a box to buy, a box is 10 pounds, about 200 yuan. The price of shrimp is mainly related to the variety, freshness and size.
At the marina, three types of shrimp are common, live skin shrimp, red shrimp and sand shrimp.
Live skin shrimp is the highest value, can be called the "king" of sea shrimp, choking shrimp, drunken shrimp, steaming and frying are all OK, shrimp meat is tender, it is a relatively high-grade sea shrimp, the wharf price is more than 200 yuan a box.
Red shrimp color pink, the price is second, almost 200 yuan a box. Generally people who are accustomed to eating live skin shrimp are unlikely to eat it, I personally feel that there is not much difference in the taste of the two, red shrimp soft shell, compared to the hard shell of live skin shrimp, very easy to peel. Red shrimp has a disadvantage, that is, the shrimp head is more likely to be black.
As for the sand shrimp, it is equivalent to the more affordable sea shrimp, the color is whiter than the red shrimp, and the taste is relatively rough. In my refrigerator, it accounts for the most, not only because of the price of 120 yuan a box, from the freshness of shrimp, it is not bad, the roughness of shrimp meat has another taste, called chewy.
I bought octagonal snails on the dock
Suddenly, he changed his pattern and burned
My favorite thing to eat is the conch meat, which is both delicious and chewy, and it is suddenly changed into a fancy roast.
I directly bought two baskets of conch 70 pounds, a pound of 6 yuan, I knocked out the conch meat, frozen in the refrigerator, eat slowly. Friends think that the conch I bought is very cost-effective, and a friend in Ningbo also left a message saying that the vegetable market sells for 30 yuan a catty.
A few days ago, after I bought 6 boxes of sand shrimp and red shrimp, I was carrying it on my shoulders, and when I was planning to leave the dock, I suddenly saw someone selling a basket of conch in the trading area, and the seller said that this was called "octagonal snail", 15 yuan a pound.
In the vegetable market, fragrant snails, spicy snails, etc. are very common, the price is more than 30 yuan a catty, this kind of octagonal snail, I have not seen much. To be sure, everyone is a snail, and this is also a wild conch, and the taste will not be bad. Late last year, I bought a long spindle-shaped conch that is rare on the docks.
The red snail bought by the reporter yesterday was 10 yuan a pound
Buying goods at the dock is not on the pound to buy, it is to buy on the basket, and the price is the cheapest to buy basket by basket. I thought about it, immediately the fishing ban period, just buy a basket to calculate, the vendor is very refreshing, said 6 yuan a pound all taken away, a weigh 37 pounds. A vendor next to me saw it and said he had it too, and sold it to me at this price, and I bought them all.
After going back, a total of 70 pounds of octagonal snails, the neighborhood neighbors saw and wanted, I transferred some to them at the original price, and the neighbors also felt that the price was cheap.
In fact, on the dock, the wholesale price is cheaper, as long as two yuan a pound, but this requires an all-night trip to the dock, the most lively seafood transaction on the dock is after 0:00 a.m., fishing boats docked, vendors gathered. By the morning, the peak of trading had passed. In the afternoon, the dock was empty, and there were hardly any boats in sight, nor a few operators in sight.
Live conchs can generally be kept for seven days. Ever since I bought the conch, I've been drying octagonal snails in my circle of friends, a large plate every day. First put in the pot to cook, after cooking semi-cooked, the meat with a toothpick to pick out, some snails are difficult to pick, you have to use hard objects to break the shell, wash clean, wash when paying special attention to the bitter tendons of the snail, if you do not pick clean, a plate of snails with a bitter taste, then you can only throw the trash can. Wash it and sauté it with green onion oil or add some garlic.
I also asked Professor Chen Jian of the College of Oceanography of Zhejiang University for some conch knowledge. He said that the scientific name of the octagonal snail I bought was Xijian Red Frog Snail, and the spindle-shaped snail I used to buy was called a long-tail spindle snail. Neither of these snails has high economic value, is uncommon at the dock, and is purely wild. Like the red frog snail, it is generally dragged in the net by the shrimp tug boat, which is equivalent to the shrimp catch gift, plus the live conch is not easy to preserve, so the selling price is relatively low. "Recently, there may be more shrimp boats coming back, so there are more snails."
Shrimp is number one in my inventory
Sturgeon is also the top choice
Whether it is snails or shrimp, buying goods at the dock is like Taobao picking up leaks, and buying is earning.
In my fishing ban hoarding list, shrimp is the first, the price is real, can be kept for a long time; followed by small yellow croaker, small yellow croaker is best to eat fresh, after five or six days of refrigeration in the refrigerator, the taste will slowly change.
Sturgeon is also the best choice for hoarding. Sturgeon is also called Haigaba, haigaba fish barbecue in Zhoushan is a famous dish, delicious. From this year's fishing to now, the most on the dock is the sturgeon, more prices are affordable, two yuan a pound, a box of 50 pounds 100 yuan, properly eat until the end of the fishing ban period.
As for pomfret, striped fish, etc., the price is relatively higher. If you stock them, you still have to run the dock often, the price fluctuations are relatively large, and you can find treasure with good luck. For example, pomfret, about seven or eight days ago, once a fishing boat docked only sold 6 yuan a catty, all of a sudden was robbed, the next day the same size of pomfret, a rise to more than ten or twenty yuan a catty.
The pomfrets were snatched up as soon as they reached shore.
Now, good Pippi shrimp to sell for 70 yuan a pound, if you only care about fresh, do not mind the size, you can buy a smaller head, I once picked up a "leak" at the dock. A fishing boat just docked, moved down a number of boxes of dried pippi shrimp on the boat, fat and large with cream, a box only sold for 10 yuan a pound, I directly bought 30 pounds. Later, I heard friends from the dock operators say that they had never heard of such a cheap Pippi shrimp.
There were very few fishing boats back in the past two days
Operators hoard good goods online and then sell fish
Yesterday, in Zhoushan International Aquatic City, many operators have stopped operating, such as Haiqin, a operator who specializes in selling small yellow croakers, and ended its operation on April 25.
"There are very few fishing boats coming back in these two days, there are few fish, we have almost bought it, and the next 4 months will be easy, no need to go to the dock to collect fish, just sell fish online." Chen En, general manager of Zhoushan Fisherman Seafood E-commerce Co., Ltd., said they stopped receiving goods yesterday.
However, there are still a few days before May 1, and many fishing boats are pinching the last day to return. Qian Zhifang, the old friend of the Daishan boat, was still fishing at sea yesterday, pulling dozens of cartons of green champs in a net, "catching more and making more money."
Yesterday, a supervisor surnamed Gu in the marketing department of Zhoushan Fishery Co., Ltd. said that in two days, the radar net boat will come back and lean against the Dock of Zhoushan Fishery Company, "This will be the last batch of fresh seafood." ”
This also means that fresh seafood from the East China Sea no longer appears on the market. Of course, frozen aquatic products, aquaculture and imported aquatic products will also be available.
On May 1, fishing was completely banned in the East China Sea
According to the relevant regulations, single-vessel truss trawl (truss tow shrimp), cage pot, gillnet, purse seine and boat-sized net (netting) operation closure time: 12:00 on May 1 to 12:00 on August 1.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stipulates that the fishing period for other open net operations in the transitional fishing gear for marine fishing is closed from 12:00 on May 1 to 12:00 on August 16.
Single-anchored open nets (sail-type open nets), trawls and other unspecified marine fishing operations are closed for: 12:00 on May 1 to 12:00 on September 16, and the fishing ban period is as long as 4 and a half months, which is the type of operation with the longest "fishing ban".
In principle, the fishing suspension time of fishing auxiliary vessels is from 12:00 on May 1 to 12:00 on September 16; if it is really necessary to provide supporting services for some fishing vessels with a small degree of damage to resources, they should be reported to the higher authorities for approval and consent.
Reporter Xia Yu
Edited by Xiao Xu