The hot summer is officially coming after a few rains, and the hot food of summer — the crawfish — is here again! The reporter learned that the crayfish is in the hot season。
On visits to various aquaculture wholesale markets, journalists learned that the price of prawns had ranged from almost $20 per pound “dive” to about $10 per pound, and that the price of prawns had dropped from 20 to 30 cents per pound to 16 pounds, some of which could also be bought. "the price is much cheaper than before."
Moreover, journalists have found that the number of lobsters on the market has increased this year, as has the number of vendors selling lobsters, but consumption has not increased more than last year, and to some extent there has been more than demand。
There's plenty of live shrimp in the market
The crawfish is falling
On 12 may, at the greenstone bridge seafood market, traders were called sellers: “shrimp at $12 per pound, chinese shrimp at $17 per pound and shrimp at $25 per pound”. The merchants use large iron basins with lobsters of different sizes, which are placed in the most visible position. According to ms. Fong, the shopkeeper of the seafood shop, “the average size of shrimp is the largest, and it is a little more sold than it is, but it is fundamental for consumers to choose the size of the shrimp according to the thickness of their bags, in addition to seeking a sexual value”
Journalists have found that the price of lobsters is cheaper these days. At the beginning of the market in march and april, shrimp could be sold to nearly $20 per pound, chinese shrimp to 20 to 30 per pound, and shrimp to 40 per pound. The chengdu haijistar market has learned that wholesale shrimp prices are now down to $10 per pound, 14 per pound for prawn and 20 per pound for shrimp, and are now reduced by almost half。
Why is the price so low? The important reason is the large number of live shrimp entering the market。
It is understood that the crawfish market in sichuan is dominated by local shrimp and lake beige shrimp. When it came to the market, it was mainly local shrimp, and now mainly lake shrimp. According to zi's owner, who runs the lobster-farming business in the province of sindh, the fact that hubei did not harvest shrimp this year means that more of the shrimp are in the market in hubei and that “the amount of shrimp collected in the general freezer is so high that if not, more shrimp will have to be sold”. According to boss zi, “the price of local shrimp is now based mainly on the price of the huppet shrimp to the sichuan wholesale market, which is large”
Mr. Qi found out that the price drops were earlier this year. The prices of lobsters are still high, and after mid-april prices began to decline vertically and have fluctuated since then。
Why did the price drop earlier? The keyword is also a supply-demand relationship. In march, when the lobster came on the market in april, production was low and expensive, but in mid-april, after a large number of lake beryllet had entered the sichuan market, the price of the whole lobster fell. Boss zi believes that consumer-end demand is weaker than in previous years, and she believes that first, consumer consumption is declining, leading to a shrinking demand; second, restaurants are the main customers of wholesalers, but last year, some restaurants have reduced their volume due to poor operations and failures。
Low threshold for engagement with lobster
There's more competition among wholesalers
Journalists found that nearly 300 merchants in the seafood area of the chengdu haijis market were selling lobsters in almost every house。
“there are too many wholesalers this year, and the threshold for doing the lobster business is very low. According to wang, if we were to have a good relationship with the breeder, we would not have to invest anything in the front period. “many b-side customers used to place orders in wholesale markets, now skip direct orders with the breeder, so we have less wholesale volume and more competition among wholesalers.”
The wholesale market-related staff also told journalists that the average number of lobster sales this year was 400,000 pounds per day, but less than last year, with a decrease of about one third。
According to the owner of the plumb shop, who has been working on the distribution of lobsters, the most recent sales peak should be the “51st” festival, from 12 a. M. To around 7 a. M., with heavy loads at night, mainly bulkings, increasing retail sales during the day, “although there are also close to 200 boxes of lobsters per day during this period, last year's `51st' we were busy in the morning until the afternoon when the porters were unable to move.”
According to them, since the crawfish were put on the market this year, the average volume of wholesales per day has been around 200 boxes, 50 pounds per box, compared with an average of 300 cases per day last year. At present, the goods are sold online, mainly in the form of community group purchases, under which, in addition to traditional retail sales, many older customers place orders on micro-letters, “the merchants, the farmers' markets, the restaurants are coming to us”
