Watch A Spanish Mackerel Take A Trip To The Sea

The name card of China's export, in addition to the hardcore shock fan, giant ship, and umami full of fish, shrimp and crab shellfish. China is the world's largest exporter of aquatic products, with more than 1.3 million tons of aquatic products leaving its ports each year to reach the world's dinner tables.

What is the journey of these fish and crabs to the exit? Follow the camera of the reporter, to Shandong province, a big exporter of aquatic products, to see a Spanish mackerel trip to the sea.

From the sea to overseas to a Spanish mackerel "sea" road

This reporter came to a fishing boat in Rizhao, Shandong Province. After two hours of sailing and more than two hours of net casting and waiting, this reporter ushered in the first net harvest.

Spanish mackerel is blue luster, relatively less thorn, and the price is affordable, is one of the main varieties of frozen fish export in our country.

Reporters came to the dock, where many fishing boats parked. As soon as the boat arrives in port, there will be familiar fishmongers to collect the fish. The reporter harvested five boxes of Spanish mackerel that day, each box of 50 or 60 jin, it is understood that the purchase price is about 6 yuan a jin. After the fishmongers collect the fish, it is eventually acquired by export processing companies and used as raw materials.

Freshly caught mackerel will go through more than 20 procedures, such as cleaning, slicing, deboning and seasoning. In one production line, mackerel fillets are grilled over an open fire to make instant products with barbecue flavor. Spanish mackerel is then processed into a variety of different flavors.

After the product is frozen at -30℃, it should be scanned by X-ray machine to detect whether there are residual bone spurs and foreign bodies. When all the tests are passed, it can be packed.

Customs declaration, quarantine, as long as three or four days, this batch of mackerel products can complete all the export procedures. The reporter saw two containers loaded with more than 30 tons of Spanish mackerel. The containers were plugged in, and the temperature inside the container was kept at -18℃. Through a remote superconducting system data line, the yard management could carry out real-time monitoring of the situation inside the container.

At the dock at Rizhao Port, cranes load containers, along with more than 100 tons of other aquatic products, on a container ship bound for Japan. In less than two weeks, from catch to export, Japanese consumers will be able to taste the delicacies from China.

The export value of aquatic products increased by 13.6% year-on-year in the first eight months of this year

Sea aquatic products, before boarding, there is an important process, that is processing. For decades, the process was just cutting and freezing, but now increasingly sophisticated processing has allowed the flavor of Chinese fish to drift to a larger market.

Shandong Meijia Group, the country's largest exporter of aquatic products, exports about 40,000 tons of aquatic products annually to 38 countries and regions such as Japan and the European Union. When this reporter visited, many workshops were working at full capacity.

In addition to the crab, this year the deep processing of products and thawing ready-to-eat eel, supermarkets and retail side seasoning aquatic products, export of ageing country minced fish food, such as care chief said, thanks to a few new product sales growth, enterprise benefit is more than 50 years since the establishment of this year the best year, exports reached $370 million in the first eight months. In addition to the traditional advantage of global supply chain, the core is the strategic transformation of enterprises from rough processing to intensive processing.

Aquatic products, in addition to fish, shrimp and crab shellfish, there is an important category - seaweed. Algae is also more than fish, shrimp, the first major aquatic products. Qingdao Mingyue Seaweed is the world's largest seaweed biologics company, and its alginate production accounts for 30% of global production capacity. The global seaweed production has decreased this year. Due to the advance layout of overseas raw material bases and the continuous improvement of product added value, the overall sales volume of this year has increased rather than decreased.

By 2021, China had 9,202 aquatic processing enterprises and 8,454 aquatic cold stores. In 2021, the total amount of aquatic products was 21.25 million tons, ranking first in the world. From January to August this year, China's export of aquatic products continued to grow, with a cumulative export of 239.9 million tons, amounting to $150.0 billion, up 13.6% year on year