In contrast to South China, shrimp production in East China is in terrible shape
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Shuichan News] Translated by Amy Zhong - Aug 13, 2014
Yesterday we ran a report on the level of shrimp harvest in Guangdong and South China, where things have improved over last year. Today we look at East China, where there are widespread reports of failure after farmers switched to seedlings from imported broodstock, called seedlings 1. Also bad weather has contributed to stress and the spread of disease.
The situation is bad for the whiteleg shrimp farming in the East China and the success rate is only about 10% to 20% in Shanghai’s first round of shrimp farming.
The overall success rate is low in Weifang, Shandong, although the local farmers use seedlings I. The shrimps from Shandong’s indoor ponds have entered the market around May 20 this year and the initial shrimp price increases by about 3 to 4 yuan/jin (1 jin = 0.5 kilo) compared with last year. But the average shrimp price stays low this whole July, decreasing from 20 yuan/jin this June to the current 13 yuan/jin for those whose size is about 50 shrimps per jin owing to the shrimps’ high disease incidence rate this year, according to a distributor in Weifang. This high incidence rate results from the temperature difference as high as 10°C between day and night there. The symptoms of empty stomach and intestines appear in the shrimps at the length of about 3cm to 10cm. And diseases are also common among the shrimps which are ready for the market.
The supply of shrimps from the indoor ponds is coming to an end now and the overall success rate is comparatively low this year ...
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