Recently, the reporter walked into the Cangpu Fishery Farm of Daping Society in Cangpu Village, Yongxing Town, only to see that it was surrounded by mountains on all sides, with lush vegetation, babbling springs, and birdsong, just like a paradise.
In the concrete pond under the shade of the trees, the spring water is crystal clear and the fish swim in it. "Now that the standard of living has improved, people have changed from the previous 'what to eat' to the current 'what to eat', and the requirements for food are getting higher and higher, both to eat delicious and healthy." Different water quality raises fish with different tastes, and our 'spring water fish' here not only has high nutritional value, but also has a very good taste. Zheng Zhouqiang, general manager of Yanbian County Yongsheng Aquaculture Company, said.
"I have been raising fish for more than 20 years, and at the beginning I developed cage culture in the Ertan reservoir area, but after the county's cages were dismantled in 2016, our family had no economic income. After many understandings, we learned that the fish raised in the spring water was tender and very popular, and after consulting with our family, we decided to return to the bank and start breeding Chinese sturgeon. Zheng Zhouqiang said.
Relying on the good ecological environment and clear spring water of Cangpu Village, in 2019, Zheng Zhouqiang began to prepare for the construction of a fishing farm, and in 2020, he began to breed. According to Yang Yong, a farm staff member, the farm has a total of 44 fish ponds and 98 nursery pots, with 170,000 adult fish and 1 million seedlings. Chinese sturgeon has particularly high requirements for water quality, especially seedlings like small tadpoles, and the water in the nursery pot must not only be disinfected frequently, but also maintained at 19-20 degrees Celsius before they can survive.
Sturgeon is the only "living fossil" living in the water in the world, and it is also the highest nutritional value of all fish, and its cartilage (Chinese sturgeon cartilage), skin, fins, liver, intestines, etc. can be cooked into at least more than 30 delicious dishes.
"Generally the water in the pond is acidic, so the taste of farmed fish is not delicious enough, but the spring water here is weakly alkaline and rich in minerals, and the fish grown in such an environment have a firm, delicate flesh and a more delicious taste." At present, we have a total of five fishing farms, namely in Guosheng Township Xinbi Village, Dabi Village, Gesarazhi Liuhe Village and other places, mainly based on the cultivation of Chinese sturgeon, last year a total of 5 million catties were sold, with a total income of up to 25 million yuan. Zheng Zhouqiang said.
After the interview, Zheng Zhouqiang told reporters that the cage demolition not only made the ecological environment better and better, but also gave him the opportunity to start a business, and next, he was also ready to build three new fishing grounds in Guosheng Township and Yongxing Town, so that more people could eat delicious spring water fish.