Peninsula All Media Chief Reporter Sun Guidong Intern Bao Kaixu
Entering the busiest Spring Festival of the year, Hongdao Pier is full of traffic, but the fattest oysters in this season are hard to find. It turned out that in order to prepare for the New Year, farmers had caught oysters in the sea in advance. This year's clams are higher in yield and fertility than in previous years, with 120,000 catties landed in one day, about four times that of previous years.
Clams sing the leading role Shipments exceeded 4 times that of previous years
At about 10 o'clock in the morning on February 4, the reporter came to the wharf of Hongdao Fishing Port. Just in time for the high tide, fishing boats at sea began to dock and unload their cargo. On the wharf, the vehicles pulling goods have lined up in a long line, rushing to buy seafood New Year's goods.
The reporter saw that the returning fishing boats were loaded with freshly caught clams. Zhao Yuchang, the person in charge of the Hongdao Fishing Port Wharf, said that the Spring Festival is the busiest time for the seafood market every year, and the main food on the Hongdao Wharf is oysters and clams. This year's clams are growing very well, although they are only seedlings sown in March 2023, and they are not small. Now, 100 clams can reach a catty. At this time in previous years, a pound of clams cost 120 grains. Not only that, but this year's clam fat is also very good, so the demand in the market is very high.
Now, in order to speed up the shipment, the fishermen go out to sea around 5 o'clock in the morning. Normally, you can work for four or five hours at sea and then return to the dock at high tide. According to current statistics, it is now about 120,000 catties a day, and only about 30,000 catties in perennial cases. There is a large demand in the market, and farmers have also increased their manpower to ensure the supply. Most of these clams were shipped to the local seafood markets, and they were sold out after they were put on the market.
Sea oysters have been "out of stock" Relay farming began to be marketed
However, the docks were almost entirely filled with fishing boats transporting clams, but there was no sign of oysters. Every year during the Spring Festival, oysters are the fattest time, where do the oysters in Hongdao go?
Zhao Yuchang said that farmers are rushing to market before the Spring Festival, when oysters are relatively fat, and the price is relatively high. Therefore, farmers began to prepare for the war in advance, and oysters have basically been out of the market for a while. After these oysters are landed, they have to go through steps such as sorting and cleaning.
The Spring Festival will be in a few days, and the oysters that are ready to be marketed before the festival have been fished ashore, and the public can buy them with confidence. At the same time, in the past two years, many local farmers have also started the relay breeding mode. They have been fishing for oysters for months in advance, sorting them and transporting them to places like Rizhao for cage culture. Approaching the Spring Festival, these relay-cultured oysters have also begun to be fished, and they have been marketed on a large scale one after another.
Express delivery has entered the peak period, and the Chengyang seafood market has more than 2,000 orders a day
In the seafood market, the sales of all kinds of seafood are also very hot. At the Chengyang Seafood Wholesale Market, almost all the citizens who come to buy New Year's goods are next to each other, and the sales of seafood have also reached a peak.
"The volume of buying seafood express delivery home has reached the highest peak," said the relevant person in charge of Qingdao SF Express Chengyang area, which has gradually entered the peak period since January 15, as the largest seafood wholesale market in Qingdao, many citizens have come to Chengyang aquatic products wholesale market to buy seafood and send it to all parts of the country, seafood is mainly sent to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and the three northeastern provinces and other regions, but such as Sichuan, Xinjiang and other non-traditional seafood major consumption areas, there will be a large number of orders every day.
In order to cope with the peak period, they all arranged for a brother with more than 5 years of work experience and carried out special training. It starts at 6 a.m. and is busy until around 7 p.m. In recent days, the number of express orders has also reached its peak, with more than 2,000 orders at one site alone. As the Spring Festival approaches, courier companies are also working overtime to deliver these seafood to customers' homes as soon as possible.