Chapter 1600: Salmon farming that can't go out

Xiao Peng thought that Lao Sun would be eager to tell him about the recent events. He didn't expect that Lao Sun didn't even mention it, but instead focused on eating.
"This dog claw snail is much better than the dog claw snail I'm eating!" Sun Lao exclaimed.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "This is normal. The dog claw snails here are the freshest. We have this thing growing on the side of our dock. Don't look at this thing because it looks a bit ugly. It is called'devil's food'. But the taste is true. Delicious. The most expensive in the world should be Spanish dog claw snails? If it is Spanish dog claw snails, you can eat at least five hundred pounds. But I swear by personality, Spanish dog claw snails are definitely not as good as ours. eat."
"I know that the seafood here is delicious! Don't show it off!" Sun Lao used a small wooden hammer to open the shell of a dog claw snail: "Why don't you sell such expensive and good things?"
Xiao Peng said concisely: "Not enough for me to eat. Keep it for entertaining friends."
"It's not that your friends can't eat this kind of delicious food?" Old Sun teased.
Xiao Peng nodded: "It is true."
Sun Lao sighed: "The same are all marine farming, why are your seafood so profitable here? When I came, I asked, your overseas export volume of king salmon has reached an amazing number!"
Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "Well, it's not as good as those big foreign exchange earners."
"Our country also has salmon farmed. Why is your salmon so popular?" Sun Lao asked curiously.
Xiao Peng thought for a while, and seriously answered Sun Lao’s question: "I am engaged in king salmon farming. As the most delicious salmon in the world, the price is high. However, due to overfishing, many king salmon still have They were caught without growth, and now the quantity is getting smaller and smaller, which makes them expensive. So it’s not surprising that I make some money?
"Are you making some money?" Sun Lao asked back.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "You may not know that 99% of the salmon on the market now are farmed salmon, and the only one that can breed king salmon is mine, so it’s impossible for me to make money! There is a big gap between the king salmon and the ordinary salmon raised by others."
"Oh? What's the gap?" Old Sun asked curiously.
Xiao Peng explained: "In fact, there are many problems in salmon farming that will affect the quality of fish meat, such as fish lice, which is a parasite that salmon is very susceptible to infection, especially in dense fish like cage farming. It is more prone to large-scale infections. Although it is the farmers who encounter fish lice that are more troublesome, because fish lice will kill young fish and reduce production, it is undeniable that fish lice are parasitic on the fish, which will make the fish flesh diseased and unsuitable. Edible. Whether wild salmon or farmed mandarin fish, they must be frozen at a low temperature of minus 35 degrees for 15 hours before they are released to kill these parasites. But if the meat quality changes, the taste will change even if the parasites are killed. Go! Lost the umami taste of fish."
"How did salmon farmers solve this problem?" Sun Lao asked.
Xiao Peng explained:
Now some farmers have adopted a breeding method called'deep dive barrier' to make the breeding depth deeper to reduce fish lice, but this greatly increases the cost of breeding, so more farmers still Use insecticides. Usually emamectin, this thing can kill insects in the sea, you know how effective it is, it contains persistent organic pollutants, including carcinogenic PCB substances, so it has an impact on the human body ."
Old Sun curiously asked: "Then how did you solve this problem here?"
"My king salmon does not have fish and lice, so I don't need insecticides. How do I do it... A trade secret!" Xiao Peng said proudly.
"Others farmed salmon still have many problems, such as the issue of antibiotics. After all, salmon is prone to get scabies when they grow up, so many farmers will mix antibiotics into fish food to prevent and treat this disease, although in the second More than ten years ago, the Norwegians developed a vaccine for farmed salmon, but that is Norway! And farmers all over the world except them still use antibiotics. Well, I said, you may not want to listen. , But the fact is: the salmon farming that uses antibiotics the most is in China."
Old Sun pondered for a long time: "You mean that our salmon farming in China is not formal?"
Xiao Peng shook his head: "To be precise, there are irregular places in salmon farming all over the world, especially in China. Now with the improvement of the economic level of Huaxia people, there is more and more market for salmon, otherwise neither There will be so many people using rainbow trout to pretend to be'freshwater salmon'. I will not comment on this matter. It must be related to the western economic development strategy, but in China, those farmers who engage in seawater aquaculture of real salmon also have many problems. If you want to seize the salmon market, you really don’t need to expand the scale.

"Tell me more carefully. Our country's salmon farming is very prosperous, but now it is mainly internally digested and cannot go abroad like you. What is the gap here?" Sun Lao asked Xiao Peng curiously.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "What's wrong? The salmon market is a huge market of hundreds of billions of dollars in the world. In Norway alone, 1.2 million tons of salmon are sold to the world every year. In China alone, the annual consumption of salmon is annual. An increase of more than 30%! Tasmania, like the Kangaroo country, feeds the entire state by farming salmon! China’s farmers are also optimistic about the market here, but what are their methods? Blindly expand the scale to increase production In order to achieve this purpose, the practical method is also simple and rude: feed less dead fish and feed more. This sounds like a very correct way, but it will lead to a decline in meat quality. You know how foreign devils love to pay attention to this quality. Can you sell if you are satisfied?"
"What's wrong with fewer dead fish and more feeding?" Old Sun was a little confused. Don't all farmers do this?
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "How can there be fewer dead fish? Then fight more drugs! All kinds of pesticides and antibiotics are thrown into the fishery desperately. When the salmon grow up, can there be less residue on the body? And we Huaxia There are also problems with salmon farming feed."
Lao Sun widened his eyes when he heard this: "There is a problem with the feed? How can sales be allowed?"
Xiao Peng shook his finger: "The feed problem I said is not a quality problem, but a formula problem. Our country’s salmon feed is generally made from soybean meal left over from squeezed soybean oil and chicken. In order to grow fish, There are also hormones and antibiotics in it. These are indeed formulas that comply with laws and regulations, but if you think about it, the soybean meal here is a by-product after extracting soybean oil. The soybeans in our country are generally imported genetically modified soybeans. What are the benefits of the soybean meal fish here? Plus hormone antibiotics...Can those foreigners not catch this point and make a fuss?"
"So is there a way to make our country's salmon'go out'?" Sun Lao asked.
Xiao Peng shook his head: "If I don't change these issues, it's really difficult to go out. Is the world salmon market big? It's big! Let's just say that, including breeding, feed, transportation, sales, etc. Link, this is even a bigger market than arms sales! But is it small? And small! All salmon farming countries want to further expand their market share! Even if they can’t expand their market share, they must hold onto their original market share. Market! China’s salmon wants to compete with those old-brand salmon farming countries to seize the market? It’s really too difficult—this ingredient is nothing else, it’s not cheap, but quality is very important. Now China’s salmon farming The major problem we face is that the quality is a bit poor. So internal consumption is okay, and it’s really difficult to go out. But don’t worry, we can also make money for those farmers who produce and sell themselves in China!"
This is really not Xiao Peng’s nonsense, anyway, in the eyes of many Huaxia people, foreigners like to eat good things ------ such as this salmon, it turns out that Huaxia people rarely eat this fish, after all, except for Heilongjiang Huaxia is not the salmon producing area, but now? Going out to eat western food sushi and the like, I am embarrassed to say that I have eaten those things without ordering a salmon.
Because of this, there are more and more salmon farmers in China, but almost all of them compete with each other in the country. When you go to some coastal villages, you can often see that there are concrete ponds dug in the village to collect fish fry. After growing up here, put them into sea cages to continue raising.
This kind of farming model cannot be said wrong, but the land price of China is also expensive. Tens of thousands of fry can be raised in a small fish pond of 20 square meters. As a result, all kinds of drugs are added in piles, and the quality of fish meat is naturally greatly reduced!
It's nothing more than selling in the country. If you want to go global, your competitiveness is a bit poor.
The same farmed salmon, the domestic farmed salmon is sold on the market, and the wholesale price is ten yuan per catty. Xiao Peng’s King Salmon is exported to Star-Stripe Countries at a wholesale price of 25 US dollars a pound. Is there a way to make money?
Emilia just came over at this time: "Grandpa Sun, are you talking about salmon? Come, try my lemon salmon!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Grandpa Sun, Emilia's lemon salmon tastes amazing, I promise you will like it!"
Grandpa Sun looked at the lemon salmon on the plate: "It looks very appetizing, well, it's delicious! It's delicious! Emilia, we have a saying in China, if we want to conquer a man, we must first conquer his stomach! With the lemon salmon you made, Xiao Peng can't escape from your palm!"
I don’t know that Emilia curled her lips when she heard it: "Grandpa Sun, which man do you think is looking for Xiaosan because he cooks delicious food?"
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