My deep sea fishery

Xiang Yang searched the bottom of the sea and caught four tiger-head crabs, two swimming crabs, and a large lobster weighing close to a catty before he started to move upstream.

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

"captain."

"Brother Yang."

Many people shouted after seeing Xiang Yang.

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

"Xiao Yang, you come up first, the people under the water have already come up, everyone is waiting for you." He Mingde said.

"Everyone has gone up, just waiting for me?" Xiang Yang muttered inwardly, but still climbed up the ship ladder to the deck.

"What is so mysterious?" Xiang Yang asked when he went up.

"Look at the captain." Chen Qingsheng's baby handed Xiang Yang an ashen thing tightly.

Xiang Yang was startled by the thing, and said with surprise and joy: "Abalone!"

That's right, the thing Chen Qingsheng held in his hand was the abalone that people often say.

What is abalone?

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

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

"Such a big abalone is only a three-headed abalone?" Xiang Yang also loves the slap-sized abalone in his hand. Abalone has always been a traditional precious ingredient in my country. Its tender meat and rich flavor make it one of the eight largest "sea The top of "Zhen" is extremely precious seafood, which has always enjoyed the highest reputation in the international market.

Many people who have eaten abalone may think that abalone is not worthy of its name, both in terms of price and taste, because the abalone sold in the market is too cheap and the taste is far below people's expectations.

In fact, this is not the case at all.

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 throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the production of natural abalone is still very scarce. It can't even meet the needs of a small part of the powerful class, so the abalones seen on the market are basically cultured abalone.

Think it's over just breeding abalone?

Far from it.

Even the breeding abalone is extremely precious.

The price of abalone is directly proportional to the size of its body. The larger the abalone, the more valuable it is, the longer the breeding cycle, the greater the risk, and the higher the cost. Almost all large abalones in abalone farms are booked in advance by some major hotels No one will ever end up on the market.

Some bosses who specialize in abalone business can hold a batch of abalone with more than nine heads in their hands. They are really uncles. It is impossible for ordinary people to sell them. They are not particularly well-connected, or they are indeed not ordinary. Those bosses who specialize in abalone business who want to buy abalone with more than nine heads will ignore it.

It can be said that for abalones with more than nine heads, there is always no need to find a market on their own.

Some people drive past the abalone breeding base, and if they get off the car, they will say that they have to pay for single-headed abalone or double-headed abalone, and they will not even be able to enter the gate of the breeding base.

In the past, there was news in an abalone breeding base in Liaogang. It was probably said that a rich second-generation drove by the gate of the abalone breeding base. After getting off the bus, he said that he would have a few single-headed abalones.

It may be that the second generation of the rich has some problems with the tone of voice, and it is as if the abalone from the abalone breeding base cannot be sold.

As a result, the owner of the farm was also very tempered, so he directly smashed the rich second generation and said, "If you are not relatives and have no cooperative relationship, you can also buy my single head abalone?'

Later, the rich second-generation was not enough, secretly poisoned a lot of abalones, and finally lost millions.

Speaking of this, there may be people who do not know what single-headed abalone is and what is double-headed abalone.

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

The idea of ​​a few heads of abalone is derived from weight, which means that one catty can weigh several abalones. If there are a few abalones that weigh a catty, they are called a few abalones. By analogy, nine abalones are called nine-headed abalones. A catty of 32 abalones is called 32 abalones.

It should be noted that one catty here refers to the old system of 16 two catties, which is 725 grams.

There is a saying that it’s hard to buy double-headed abalone. It can be seen that double-headed abalones are precious. The abalones on the market are basically cultured abalones of about 25 heads. This kind of abalone is very cheap, usually five pieces per serving. Will exceed thirty yuan.

Abalones grow to more than nine heads and become very precious, and they are generally only eaten in some large hotels.

A nine-headed abalone, which is installed in a pot of soup, with red, blue, green and other colors in the brown shell in the milky white soup, can usually be sold for three hundred to one thousand yuan in ordinary hotels. Wait.

"Three hundred yuan a piece is not expensive!" Fang Youqun said after understanding.He calculated what he had earned these days, and his salary plus the diving bonus and red envelopes that Xiang Yang gave him, could he still not afford an abalone for 300 yuan?

Chen Qingsheng gave Fang Youqun a squint, "It's not expensive for you, and nine items per catty are sold for three hundred yuan each. How much do you calculate per catty?"

"Three hundred times nine, thirty-nine and twenty-seven!" Fang Youqun's eyes widened suddenly, and his words trembled. "Almost three thousand yuan per catty?"

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

"But we can't buy it at this price, and it's farmed." Chen Qingsheng emphasized.

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

Fang Youqun shuddered again, staring wide-eyed and said: "A world of difference? The farmed nine-headed abalone can sell for four to five hundred yuan a catty. What price does the wild single-headed abalone sell?"

Xiang Yang and Fang Youqun looked at each other.

Chen Qingsheng laughed and said: "What do you think of single-headed abalone? Single-headed abalone refers to abalone weighing more than 1 catty per dried abalone. Even the largest net abalone in the world can hardly have one abalone. Others The species on the upper end is extremely rare. The net abalone that appeared recently in Guangdong Province is in Zhongshan. The weight of the abalone is 625 grams and the price is 2.5 million yuan, which is 2 million yuan per catty. ."

"Two million a catty?" Fang Youqun opened his mouth and said blankly: "Gosh, gold doesn't have this price, right?"

"Single-headed abalone is much rarer than gold, and there are more expensive things in this world." Chen Qingsheng patted Fang Youqun on the shoulder, pretending to say deeply: "If I can get a single-headed abalone, I will Don’t sell it, keep it as a family heirloom. Hey, why didn’t my ancestor pass me a single-headed abalone?"