My Deep-sea Fishery

Xiang Yang searched the bottom of the sea for a while, and caught four tiger head crabs, two swimming crabs, and a large lobster weighing nearly one catty, filling the net bag full before starting to go upstream.

Swimming to the surface, Xiang Yang was about to call the people on the boat to help lift the net bag up, when he suddenly saw many people standing on the side of the boat.

"captain."

"Brother Yang."

Many people shouted loudly when they saw Xiang Yang.

"What's the matter?" Xiang Yang asked loudly after taking off his hood.

"Xiaoyang, you come up first, the people at the bottom have already come up, everyone is waiting for you." He Mingde said.

"Everyone has gone up, just wait for me?" Xiang Yang muttered in his heart, but he still climbed up the ship's ladder to the deck.

"What's so mysterious?" Xiang Yang went up and asked.

"Look, Captain." Chen Qingsheng tightly handed Xiang Yang a gray object.

Xiang Yang was taken aback by that thing, and said in surprise and joy: "Abalone!"

That's right, the thing Chen Qingsheng held in his hand was exactly what people often call abalone.

What is abalone?

Even people who have never eaten seafood know that abalone is a rare treasure in the sea.

"Yes, not only abalone, but three-headed abalone, pure wild three-headed abalone." Chen Qingsheng said excitedly.

"Such a big abalone is just a three-headed abalone?" Xiang Yang played with the palm-sized abalone and couldn't put it down. Abalone has always been a traditional and precious food in our country. It is an extremely precious seafood, and it has always enjoyed the reputation of being the crown of seafood in the international market.

Many people who have eaten abalone may think that the price and taste of abalone are not worthy of the name, because the abalones sold in the market are really cheap, and the taste is far below people's inner expectations.

In fact it is not the case at all.

It is not for nothing that abalone has been regarded as the best on the table since ancient times. Although there are more than 90 kinds of abalone in the world, which are widely distributed and have footprints all over the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the production of natural abalone is still very scarce. It is impossible to meet the needs of a small number of powerful people, so the abalones seen on the market are basically farmed abalones.

Do you think it’s all about farming abalone?

Far from it.

Even the abalone is cherished very much.

The price of abalone is directly proportional to its body size. The bigger the abalone, the more valuable it is. The longer the breeding cycle, the greater the risk and the higher the cost. Almost all the big abalones in the abalone farms are booked in advance by some big hotels. There will never be even a single one that falls into the market.

Some bosses who specialize in the abalone business can hold a batch of abalones with more than nine heads in their hands, that is the real uncle. It is impossible for ordinary people to sell them if they go there. If you want to buy abalone with more than nine heads, the bosses who specialize in the abalone business will ignore it.

It can be said that abalone with more than nine heads never needs to find a market by itself, and people who want to buy come to ask for it.

Some people drive past the abalone breeding base. If they get off the car, they will say that they want to buy single-headed or double-headed abalone.

In the past, there was a piece of news in a certain abalone breeding base in Liaogang. It probably said that there was a rich second generation driving past the entrance of the abalone breeding base.

Maybe there was something wrong with the rich second generation's tone of voice, as if the abalone in the abalone breeding base couldn't be sold.

In the end, the owner of the farm was also very violent, and he directly pissed off the rich second generation, saying, "If you are not related to me, and have no cooperative relationship, you deserve to buy my single-headed abalone?" '

Later, the rich second generation was so angry that he secretly poisoned many abalones and lost several million in the end.

Speaking of this, some people may not know what is a single-headed abalone and what is a double-headed abalone.

A single-headed abalone is one abalone per catty, and a double-headed abalone is two abalones per catty.

The number of heads of abalone is derived from the weight, which means how many abalones can be weighed in a city. If there are several abalones in a city, they are called abalones. By analogy, nine abalones are called nine-head abalone. 32 abalones per catty are called 32 abalones.

It should be noted that the one catty here refers to the old system of sixteen taels per catty, which is 725 grams.

There is a saying that it is difficult to buy double-headed abalone, which shows how precious double-headed abalone is. The abalones on the market are basically farmed abalones with a pack of about 25 heads. This kind of abalone is very cheap. It will be more than thirty yuan.

When abalone grows to more than nine heads, it becomes very precious. Generally, it can only be eaten in some big hotels.

A nine-headed abalone packed in a soup jar, with red, blue, green and other colors exuding in the brown shell in the milky white soup, usually sells for 300 to 1,000 yuan in a general hotel. wait.

"Three hundred yuan a piece is not expensive!" Fang Youqun said after understanding. He calculated what he had earned these days. With his salary plus the diving bonus and red envelopes that Xiang Yang gave him, couldn't he still afford a three hundred yuan abalone?

Chen Qingsheng gave Fang Youqun a sideways look, "It's not expensive for your size, nine pieces per catty sell for three hundred yuan each, how much do you calculate per catty?"

"Three hundred times nine, three nine twenty-seven!" Fang Youqun's eyes widened suddenly, and he trembled as he spoke, "Closer to three thousand yuan a catty?"

"Actually, there is no such price." Xiang Yang smiled and explained: "That is the price at which the hotel sells after processing. In fact, the received price is far cheaper than this, four to five hundred yuan a catty."

"But we can't buy it at this price, and it is farmed." Chen Qingsheng said with emphasis.

"That's true, the price of natural abalone and cultured abalone is quite different." Xiang Yang nodded.

Fang Youqun shivered again, his eyes widened and he said, "It's a world of difference? Farmed nine-headed abalone can sell for four to five hundred yuan a catty, so how much can a wild one-headed abalone be sold for?"

Xiang Yang and Fang Youqun looked at each other.

Chen Qingsheng laughed and said: "What do you think of a single-headed abalone? A single-headed abalone refers to an abalone with a weight of more than 1 catty each. One-headed abalones are extremely rare. The most recent one-headed abalone in Guangdong Province is in Zhongshan. The weight of that one-headed abalone is 625 grams, and the price is 2.5 million yuan. Converted into catties, it is 2 million yuan per catty. .”

"Two million a catty?" Fang Youqun opened his mouth wide and said blankly, "My God, gold doesn't even have that price, does it?"

"Single-headed abalone is much rarer than gold, and there are many things in this world that are more expensive than gold." Chen Qingsheng patted Fang Youqun's shoulder, pretending to be deep and said: "If I can get a single-headed abalone, then I will Don’t sell it, keep it as a family heirloom, alas, why didn’t my ancestors pass me a single-headed abalone?”