How much is saury per jin? Latest market price analysis
The saury, scientific name long-jawed anchovy, is a migratory fish that mainly lives in the sea, migrating into rivers in February-March to spawn, and some lakes also have resident saury; it is an important economic fish along China's coast. So how were saury prices in 2019?
The saury is mainly distributed in China's Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea and East China Sea areas; every spring, schools of saury swim upstream along rivers, and they can be seen in any river connected to the sea, such as the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Hai River. The saury is not large in size, but its numbers are huge, and during the spring migration it can form a fish tide. According to the saury's migration route, species and so on, saury is divided into several types: wild saury, Yangtze River saury, Pacific saury and hairy saury, and the market price of each type differs.
The market price of wild saury varies and depends on the type purchased. If it is river saury, the market price is about 2000-3000 yuan per jin; if it is sea saury or lake saury, the market price is relatively cheap, ranging from 10-25 yuan per jin, with the specific price depending on the local market conditions, transport distance and so on. The reason for such a large price difference is mainly that the saury that has gone through migration loses its bitter, fishy taste during the journey, and its flesh becomes especially delicate and plump, tasting fresh, fragrant and rich, making it a peerless delicacy.
As one of the “Three Fresh Delicacies of the Yangtze River”, the saury has extremely high nutritional value. Every 100 grams of saury contains 18.4 grams of protein and 4.6 grams of fat, and also contains phosphorus, iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium and vitamin A, B1, B2 and many other nutrients, making it an ideal nourishing food for the elderly, children and pregnant and postpartum women. In addition, saury is also used in traditional Chinese medicine; many traditional Chinese medical texts hold that saury has functions such as nourishing the liver, dispelling wind and stopping bleeding.
Historically, saury yields were very abundant, but due to problems such as overfishing and declining environmental quality, the annual yield of saury has already dropped significantly, and the toxin content in saury bodies is also increasing year by year, causing the freshness of its flesh to decline and its nutritional content to be inferior to before.
With the development of technology, saury is now being farmed artificially, and relatively mature farming techniques have been developed, except that artificially farmed saury never tastes as delicious as saury that has gone through migration, but this is also a case of gaining something and losing something. Many unscrupulous merchants on the market pass off artificially farmed saury as wild saury to make a profit, so everyone must pay extra attention when buying.
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