My Deep-sea Fishery

Large yellow croaker is also called patriotic fish.

In 1957, there was a famine, and many people could not afford to eat.

It was also in this year that the annual output of large yellow croakers in the Zhoushan fishing ground soared from 5,000 tons per year to over 100,000 tons, an increase of 20 times. Due to the lack of refrigeration conditions, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions also called on other parts of the country to actively buy and taste " Patriotic Fish".

In the next 20 years, the large yellow croaker became the national fish and a symbol of a better and rich life.

Even in very inland families, when the fishing season comes every spring and summer, they can also eat frozen large yellow croakers.

"The cooking skills can be repeated, but the taste of large yellow croakers may be difficult to restore compared with history." Li Chao sighed, and said: "Since the 1980s, the resources of wild large yellow croakers in the East China Sea have been exhausted. The twenty-fold harvest of large yellow croakers in 1957 was actually the culmination of the feast of large yellow croakers."

Xiang Yang nodded solemnly, agreeing to Li Chao's words.

The large yellow croaker is a sea fish that can make sounds.

According to the memories of the older generation of fishermen in Yanlong Village, from the beginning of April to the beginning of May of the lunar calendar, when the big yellow croaker fishing season comes, the large yellow croakers in the coastal waters are so loud that they can wake people up from their dreams.

But in Xiang Yang's memory, this kind of big yellow croaker has never been seen before.

In fact, since the 1980s, there has been no fishing season for large yellow croakers in the East China Sea.

By the early 1990s, the annual output was only tens of tons.

By 1993, the Zhoushan fishing ground, which was once rich in large yellow croakers, had caught only 27 tons.

"Although the wild East China Sea large yellow croaker is delicious, it has withdrawn from the table of ordinary people." Xiang Yang nodded and said, "I saw them in the news last time, and they were really expensive. Generally, the weight is multiplied by one thousand, for example, a large yellow croaker with a total weight of 2 catties is 2,000 yuan per catty, and a large yellow croaker with a total weight of 4 catties is 4,000 yuan per catty.”

Li Chao smiled. In fact, this price has long been outdated. As the number of wild large yellow croakers continues to decrease, the price of large yellow croakers is getting more and more expensive nowadays.

However, Li Chao didn't explain anything to Xiang Yang. The price he offered to Xiang Yang was not low, and the transaction between him and Xiang Yang was not a market transaction, but a purchase price. Most importantly, the price was from Xiang Yang himself. Agreed.

Those who are not familiar with large yellow croakers can hardly tell whether large yellow croakers are wild or farmed.

There are also many fakes in the wild large yellow croaker market.

As for how to divide the two, in fact, there is no need to divide them at all.

If you go to a hotel of that level, if you say it's a real big yellow croaker, you won't use a fake big yellow croaker to smash your own signboard.

Without a hotel of that level, it is impossible to sell real wild large yellow croakers.

The taste of artificially farmed large yellow croaker is indeed inferior to that of wild large yellow croaker, but the indisputable fact is that the price of farmed large yellow croaker is much more approachable, generally only tens of dollars per catty, and it is a delicacy that can really enter the homes of ordinary people.

In fact, most of the large yellow croakers on the market today come from farming.

my country broke through the technology of artificial breeding of large yellow croaker in 1986, and mastered the technology of artificial breeding of broodstock in 1987.

Ningde is the center of my country's large yellow croaker farming industry.

In 2015, a total of 149,000 tons of large yellow croakers were farmed nationwide, of which more than 80% came from Ningde.

The biggest difference between farmed large yellow croaker and wild large yellow croaker lies in overfat. According to the research of a teacher at a maritime university, the total fat content of farmed large yellow croaker is more than twice that of wild large yellow croaker.

"Actually, I could catch some more large yellow croakers when I went out this time." Xiang Yang sighed, "But the disappearance of large yellow croakers is directly related to the fishing intensity, so I didn't dare to continue casting nets in that sea area. "

"It's right to accept it when it's good." Li Chao nodded, first affirming Xiang Yang's approach, and then he said: "Actually, the disappearance of large yellow croakers has little to do with the fishing intensity. It really determines the fate of large yellow croakers." The first is the introduction and abuse of knocking techniques, and the second is the complete destruction of large yellow croaker wintering grounds."

Knocking operation is a collective operation, generally composed of two large boats responsible for setting and collecting nets and more than 30 small boats responsible for making noise to drive fish away.

The two large fishing boats are called Kugong and Kumu, and the other boats are called Peguzai boats.

When these boats arrived at the fishing ground, the male boat and the mother boat set up their nets, and through semaphore and trumpet blowing, directed the small boats to encircle the large yellow croaker school and form a semicircle in front of the big boat.

There are generally only three or four people on each small boat. Two people row the oars, and two people beat the wooden boards tied to the boat. By creating underwater sound waves, the fish brains of the crowfish family resonate and stun the fish. Then drive the stunned fish into the net opened by the big boat.

In 1954, the knuckle-knocking operation method first appeared in the Zhoushan fishing ground, and in 1956 it spread throughout the southeast coast.

The knocking operation is extremely effective for catching fish of the Shishou family, that is, large and small yellow croakers.

In the Kanmen area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, a fleet of knuckle-cracking boats once caught 470,000 catties of yellow croaker in one net, which is unimaginable today.

Knocking Kwu is a truly desperate practice.

When encountering a large school of fish, the fleet caught only a small part of the fish that was stunned, and the fish that could not be collected could only be allowed to die and sink to the bottom of the sea.

In addition to knocking knuckles, there are also fishermen rounding up large yellow croakers from coastal fishing grounds during the spring and summer floods, and large yellow croakers entering the port to spawn in Daiquyang, Zhoushan. There are even more greedy fishermen who chase large yellow croakers to fishing grounds outside the sea to overwinter to catch overwintering large yellow croakers. Completely cut off the incense.

The output of large yellow croaker in Zhoushan Fishing Ground soared from 100,000 tons to 168,100 tons that year, creating the highest production record of large yellow croaker in the history of my country's fishery.

At that time, people thought happily that a new large yellow croaker fishing ground had been opened up.

As a result, the production of large yellow croaker plummeted in the next few years. The large yellow croaker resources have been in a slump ever since.

Xiang Yang shook his head, not wanting to comment on these two matters.

In Xiang Yang's view, knocking the croakers can also be attributed to a cognitive error, but destroying the wintering ground of the large yellow croaker is really unreasonable. It is equivalent to going directly to the source and completely ending the group of large yellow croakers.

After Xiang Yang thought carefully for a while, he looked at Li Chao, nodded lightly and said, "Okay, let's use these large yellow croakers to advertise the yacht. You can take the bluefin tuna, Boss Murong."

Although wild large yellow croaker is not as precious as bluefin tuna, it is also an extremely precious top seafood.

Most importantly, as one of the most important aquatic products in the former Zhoushan fishing ground, large yellow croaker has a great reputation, even surpassing bluefin tuna.

When the yachts of the Supreme series go to sea, there must be some rich and big bosses sitting on the yachts. Eating a piece of wild large yellow croaker is their reward for their hard work.