Recently, Ms. Xiong, the provincial city citizen, went to the vegetable market near the community for two consecutive days to buy squid and did not buy it. Not only that, Ms. Xiong also found that although other freshwater fish can be bought, the price has skyrocketed. The original carp of 50-6 yuan has already approached 10 yuan a pound. The reporter recently investigated the market and learned that the current consumption of freshwater fish is off-season, but the price of freshwater fish in Jinan has risen. In the interview, many freshwater fish wholesalers said that they have been trading for many years and have never sold anything like this year. The high price. Why do freshwater fish prices rise abnormally? In this regard, industry sources said that the high price of freshwater fish on the one hand and feed artificial cost increases, on the other hand, is also related to natural disasters in the south after drought.

Jinan freshwater fish soared squid up by 50% for two months

“How much is the carp today?” “Nine blocks 5.” “Is the money going up again?”... On June 20, a freshwater fish stall at a farmer's market in the central city of the province, the reporter heard a section like the stall owner and the customer. Dialogue, the stall owner told the reporter that even though the squid had increased its money, he had no choice but to enter the market. He did not enter the market today, and recently, price increases and shortages have frequently occurred.

The reporter recently visited the provincial farmers’ market and learned that the common freshwater fish such as carp, carp, grass carp, blackfish, and squid on the market are all rising without exception. Among them, carp and carp have risen the most. In the five farmer's markets surveyed by the fixed-point survey in Zhou, for example, the retail price of squid was as high as RMB 10/kg, and the retail price of squid was RMB 9/kg. Just two months ago, it cost only five or six yuan per jin catfish. Take the example of a freshwater fish marketed by a water company in the Auspicious Garden Farmers Market. On the April 18th report, the price of catfish and squid is 6 yuan per catty, but on the statistics table on June 20, the two The prices rose to 9.0 yuan and 8.0 yuan respectively, a difference of two months, carp prices increased by 50%, and carp rose by more than 30%.

"It was nearly two months. Every freshwater fish had to go up three or five times. The recent increase was particularly severe. Sometimes it can be up to 50 cents a day." The fishermen of Zhengjue Temple Farmers Market told reporters that when the weather was hot in previous years, the carp was The price of squid has also risen, but prices have fallen for a while and have never been so expensive.

After more than ten years of business, the highest price of freshwater fish this year was yesterday morning. The reporter went to the Lushan Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, located on the Second Ring Road West. There is a dedicated freshwater fish wholesale area in this market. It is understood that this area has gathered more than 100 household owners, mainly engaged in freshwater fish wholesale business. It is the largest distribution center for freshwater fish in Jinan. It usually starts trading in the early morning. Everyone from hawkers and major restaurants in various markets in Jinan City will come here. Purchased.

Around 8:00 AM, in front of the first row of houses in the freshwater fish wholesale area, the reporter heard such a dialogue: “Come five grass carp.” “It's awkward, but to tell you that, grass carp rose again today.” The fish wholesaler here is Mr. Xi. He told reporters that on June 20, he approved the grass carp at 6 yuan/kg. On the morning of June 21, it rose to 6.5 yuan/kg. "No way, the receipt price. It went up."

Mr. Xi did the wholesale of freshwater fish such as eel, squid, and squid. He told reporters that freshwater fish began to rise in price more than a month ago. As soon as it rose, the wholesale price of squid was more than 5 yuan. Raised to the current 8.5 yuan, catfish close to 9 yuan per catty, a week ago, the wholesale price of carp even to 9.5 yuan / kg, after the price increase, the carp is often not reach the goods.

The prices of other freshwater products have also risen, but there has been no significant increase in eel. Take snails as an example. The wholesale price of general quality snails at Mr. Xi’s booth yesterday was 1.7 yuan/kg. The best snails needed for wholesale last year were only needed. 1.5 yuan.

“In June last year, a catty fish of the same size was only sold for 5.5 yuan a pound. Today it was at least 8.8 yuan. The freshwater fish have gone out of business.” Another female trader on the market told reporters that she had been drinking freshwater for more than a decade. The fish wholesale business has never seen such a high price. “In the past, the squid had sold two or three bucks a pound, and the most expensive time was when the Spring Festival, the wholesale price was five or six bucks. It had never been eighty-nine. A pound of dollars."

Why?

It is understood that the current freshwater fish market in Jinan, mainly from the province, both Jinan suburbs Wujiabao, Huanghebei fish, as well as Baiyun Lake fish, but also from the Weishan Lake fish.

Why did the price of freshwater fish soar in recent days? With this question in mind, the reporter consulted a number of staff from aquaculture companies and breeding bases. A wholesaler told the reporter that freshwater fish farming is generally conducted in the spring with fry until it arrives in the market. The number of adult fish in fish ponds is decreasing, and the supply market is decreasing. The price is naturally higher.

But for this statement, another wholesaler named Chen does not agree that “there is an off-season supply every year. This is why this year is particularly expensive. It is because of the high cost of farming.” According to Mr. Chen, he went to the suburbs to collect fish. It was found that this year's fish is difficult to collect. "I heard that the price of freshwater fish last year was not high, and how much money fish farming did not earn, and this year's aquatic feed has risen by 30%. A lot of people are afraid that they will not be able to earn money and there will be fewer farmers. ."

Afterwards, the reporter contacted Zhang Liuchang, a freshwater fish farmer at Baiyun Lake and Liu Xing. He also said that the recent increase in the price of freshwater fish is indeed linked to rising costs. “Since March, fishmeal and soybean meal prices have risen. The increase in the cost of fish, coupled with the increase in the wages of workers now, has increased the price of fish out of the pond in the past few months.” In addition, the increase in transportation costs after the rise in oil prices directly affects the price of freshwater fish.

The southern Hanlan market affected the Jinan market’s view that rising costs caused price rises in freshwater fish. Many wholesalers stated that this is not a comprehensive statement. They said that the current soaring price of freshwater fish has a certain relationship with the natural disasters in the south.

“Now the freshwater fish in the Jinan market is just local, and it is difficult to see exotic freshwater fish. This was not the case before, not only locally, but also in Jiangsu, Tianjin, and Zhengzhou.” During the interview, a fishery wholesaler According to Shang, the drought of several major freshwater lakes in and out of the Yangtze River directly affected the local freshwater fish production. After a flood, many freshwater fish breeding bases ceased production. Many of the goods originally supplied to the north were digested in the south.

Staff of Zhang Lake, a freshwater lake breeding base in Weishan Lake, also confirmed this statement. He said that "in the past, some cities in the south were less demanding. In recent days, many southern provinces and cities suffered disasters after drought and local drought. The production of freshwater fish has dropped, and some have begun to come to us to wholesale freshwater fish."

The reduced supply has also affected the business of wholesalers. “Before it was sold, it could not be sold, and now there is no goods to sell.” Mr. Xi said.

The rising price of freshwater fish has also affected the business of small shops. “I used to buy about two kilograms of fish before I spent seven or eight dollars. I sold one dish for eighteen dollars and I could make money. Now I can’t buy one for ten dollars. Half of the fish and half of the fish are now trying to do as little as possible. The cost is too high.” Mr. Zhao, owner of Xiaochuan Restaurant in the provincial capital, said that some hotels directly increase prices. The reporter learned from a chain restaurant in the provincial capital that the store Some dishes related to "fish" rose by about 10 yuan recently.