The China Aquatic Products Channel reported that in the past few years, the spotted forked catfish has risen and fallen, peaks to troughs, and then from troughs to peaks. Some people can't make ends meet and farm at a loss; but some people can sell a pond of fish and buy a big ben. Forktail catfish in North America, Europe has a large consumer market, China is also exported to Europe and the United States, and later because of trade barriers and other restrictions, the export market decreased, the domestic market continues to increase. It is said that after switching to the domestic market, the catfish market will slowly stabilize and will not rise and fall sharply. The trend of the market is still unexpected: from 2015 to 2016, the overall downturn in the bulk freshwater fish market, the price of forktail catfish is 8 yuan to 10 yuan / catty, and the market in 2016 is even better, the highest time is more than 12 yuan / catty. According to the cost price of 5.5 yuan per kilogram, the profit is quite considerable. The market in 2017 is not as expected, especially in the second half of the year, basically hovering at the cost line. Even at the end of the year, when all the bulk fish are on the road with red flags fluttering, the fork-tailed catfish still "sticks to the bottom line".
The output of forktail catfish in the country is constantly increasing, and the export volume is decreasing, and more is the consumption of the domestic market.
Fortunately, in February this year, the forktail catfish broke the state of "stagnation" and rose, comforting the hearts of a wave of farmers. After opening the rally, the forktail catfish has maintained a stable and rising state until now. In general, the market in Guangxi, Jiangsu, Hubei and Sichuan is relatively good, and the increase in Guangdong, Fujian and Henan is slightly weaker, but the overall fish price is also rising, higher than the price of the same period last year. After entering the end of June, the price of forktail catfish in Guangxi has maintained a market of 10.5 yuan / catty since the breakthrough of 10 years, and the dismantling of cages has led to a large reduction in the amount of ponds, so the price of fish is high. Looking at Jiangsu, the 2-3 kg specification after June also remained above 8 yuan / kg, but also in the continuous rise, breakthrough to 10 yuan / kg is an inevitable trend. This year's market is very good, and many farmers have rushed to the market and re-breeding.
Up to now, the storm of cage demolition has been decreasing, and the reservoir cages in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Fujian and other places have been basically dismantled at the end of 2016 and can no longer be cage cultured. The large area reduction of aquaculture is an opportunity and a challenge for forktail catfish, but a large reduction in production is inevitable, and too much production is the main reason for the downturn in the market in previous years, oversupply, the price is difficult to rise, and the market will become relatively objective to solve this problem. In the next six months, the newly raised forktail catfish can not quickly reach the specifications of the market, so the market price is still bullish.
Prices are uncontrollable and change with market movements. As a farmer, in addition to waiting for the price, you can also control the quality and raise fish well. In recent years, aquaculture has increased, on the one hand, the high-density aquaculture water quality is not good, fish diseases have increased, and the irregular use of drugs has led to unqualified residual drugs and sales difficulties. On the other hand, "yellow croakers" are also increasing. "Yellow croaker" is not only rejected by the processing plant, but also the price is depressed when it circulates to the market, so it is still necessary to be vigilant in the breeding process.
There are many reasons for the appearance of "yellow meat fish" in forktail catfish. First, the disease triggers yellow butter. Lesions in the body of the sick fish lead to serious damage to the liver, causing metabolic dysfunction, or parasitic infections cause bile duct blockage, bile excretion is obstructed, a large amount of bilirubin is discharged into the blood, the tissues of the whole body are dyed yellow, forming yellow meat. Secondly, improper use of feed causes yellow butter. Feed mold, aflatoxin is too high, vitamin E deficiency, oil oxidation, pigment deposition, etc. will appear "yellow meat fish" phenomenon. In addition, the drug can also cause yellow fat. Mainly sulfonamide drugs and some Chinese herbal medicines rich in pigment sources, etc., if the drug suspension period is too short, it is likely to cause fat yellowing.
Farmers regularly observe the color of the fish body, and dissect the fish, observe the color of the meat, once the yellow meat fish appears, it is necessary to find the cause as soon as possible, the right medicine, can not be rushed to the doctor, if it is determined that it is caused by feed, you must immediately stop feeding the feed, and contact the manufacturer to adjust the feed formula to remove the pathogenic factor.