How much does a jin of grey mullet, which is meaty with few bones, roughly cost? Introduction to its nutritional value
Grey mullet, also known as “new fish”, feeds on plant-based food, often lives in crab holes, sea bass heads and oyster ponds, and is most suitable for mixed farming with other aquatic products. The grey mullet has a small and round body shape, with only one spinal bone in its whole body, plenty of meat and few bones, making it easy to eat, and its meat is delicious. Grey mullet has already been farmed on a large scale in the reclaimed tidal flats of Chaoshan and has become a major foreign-exchange-earning aquatic product. So roughly how much does a jin of grey mullet cost? What are its nutritional values? According to Master Peng from Fujian, who likes fishing for grey mullet, 8 yuan to 10 yuan can buy a jin of grey mullet in Fujian. This type of fish is very rich in nutrition, rich in protein, fatty acids, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, selenium and other nutritional elements, and its protein content reaches 22%. Grey mullet is sweet and neutral in nature and flavor, and has functions such as strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, and promoting digestion and relieving food stagnation. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on conditions such as spleen deficiency, indigestion, infantile malnutrition, and anemia, and is regarded as an excellent seafood dietary therapy product. In addition, folk legend also says that grey mullet has the effect of removing body odor. In Chaoshan restaurants, chefs wrap a grey mullet in paper, then put it into coarse salt and bake and braise it until cooked, and take out the whole fish and serve it on a plate, without any seasoning, eaten with bean paste, and the meat is tender, while the whole fish has only one spinal bone, making it very suitable for elderly people and children to eat.
Master Peng also shared some of his own insights on fishing for grey mullet: the key to fishing for grey mullet is to lure the grey mullet into the nest. Grey mullet eats food every day, and maintaining the groundbait requires persistence, patience and skill. Once the fish are successfully lured into the nest, as long as you keep replenishing the groundbait, the grey mullet will gather in increasing numbers and will not leave. You can catch as many as you want; as long as you dare to imagine and persist, countless grey mullet will be waiting for you.
Why do so many grey mullet gather around the fish rafts? Because grey mullet like inner bays and places with abundant brackish water food, and the many fish feeds for raft farming also become a delicious feast for grey mullet.
The groundbait for grey mullet is made by mixing 70% pomfret feed plus 30% peanut cake plus an appropriate amount of egg-milk flavoring. The groundbait should not be too thin. Our goal is to lure the fish down to the bottom. For grey mullet groundbait, be sure to let the fish feed fully absorb water and then mix it evenly, and the groundbait must sink to the bottom. Otherwise, because the fish feed floats on water, the particles in the groundbait will float up, and the grey mullet will chase the floating particles and drift away with the current, or it will be difficult to fish at an uncertain water depth.
The principle of maintaining groundbait for fishing for bottom-dwelling grey mullet is: when the current stops, keep replenishing the groundbait and scatter it; when the current is slow, scatter less; when the current is relatively stable and the flow speed is medium, knead it into balls and throw them at the head of the current; when the current is strong, stop maintaining the groundbait.