Ranking of China's main seafood producing areas, where is it cheapest?

Seafood is a common aquatic product, and many people like to eat it. Of course, China has many seafood producing areas, and prices differ from one producing area to another, so do you know where seafood is cheapest in China? What are China's seafood producing areas? Let's find out below.

Where in China is seafood cheapest?

The place in China with the cheapest and most abundant seafood should be Zhanjiang in Guangdong, which is known as the "Capital of Seafood." Zhanjiang borders Hainan, but eating seafood in Zhanjiang is much cheaper than in Hainan, and the variety of seafood is also very diverse. This is mainly because many villagers in Zhanjiang make their living by fishing, so the local seafood resources are especially abundant, and the price of seafood is naturally very cheap.

Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province faces the waters of the South China Sea, and it is the area richest in fish resources, so Zhanjiang has a great many kinds of seafood. However, the most famous seafood in Zhanjiang is the prawn; perhaps because the growing environment is better, the prawns here are especially large, basically comparable to a palm, and their flesh is especially delicious, which has attracted countless people to come here after hearing of its fame.

Ranking of China's main seafood producing areas

1. Zhanjiang, Guangdong

Zhanjiang is located in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong, and it has China's largest mangrove reserve and shallow-sea coral reserve. It is precisely because Zhanjiang's ecological environment is good that this unique advantage has created Zhanjiang's high-quality seafood, which is known as the fish warehouse of the South China Sea, and its seafood is cheaper than elsewhere. To eat seafood, go to Zhanjiang - this has already become Zhanjiang's golden signboard, and Zhanjiang's seafood is renowned far and wide for being fresh, high quality and inexpensive.

2. Dalian

People who grow up by the sea all know that the colder the seawater, the tastier the seafood that grows there. Dalian is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, where the seawater temperature difference is relatively large, so seafood grows slowly, but because of this, the seafood here is even more delicious. From large to small shellfish, to a diverse range of sea crabs (red-legged crab, swimming crab, flower crab), as well as southern sea crabs, river crabs, Chinese mitten crabs and so on.

3. Qingdao

Qingdao not only has beer, Qingdao's seafood is also very famous; you could say beer and seafood are Qingdao's two most important calling cards. When you come to Qingdao, Spanish mackerel dumplings and cuttlefish dumplings are delicacies you must eat; of course, besides these, Qingdao's four small seafoods: nima, haogen, mohuo and haishazi, are also the delicacies in the night markets that go best with beer.

4. Yantai

Yantai is adjacent to the Bohai Sea. Because the seawater temperature difference in the Bohai Bay area is relatively large, seafood such as abalone, sea urchins and sea cucumbers that live on the seabed and reefs grows slowly, but precisely because of this, they accumulate more nutrients such as amino acids and polysaccharides in their bodies, making them especially delicious. The sea worm (Urechis unicinctus) of the Yantai area is very famous.

5. Lianyungang

Because of its mild maritime climate, the seafood of the Haizhou Bay fishing ground in Lianyungang, which lies in the zone where the temperate and subtropical regions meet, presents a uniquely delicious flavor. The most famous seafood in Lianyungang is yellow croaker; its flesh is the tenderest, simply melting in your mouth.

6. Zhoushan

Zhoushan is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, and enjoys the fine names of "Fish Warehouse of the East China Sea" and "China's Fishing Capital." Zhoushan lies at the estuary of three rivers - the Yangtze River, the Qiantang River and the Yong River - where many cold and warm currents such as the coastal current, the Taiwan warm current and the Yellow Sea cold water mass converge, giving marine life more choices: warm-loving fish follow the warm currents, cold-loving fish follow the cold currents, and thus the fish all converge at Zhoushan. Geography books tell us that this is the chosen land for fishing grounds. Zhoushan seafood is not only fresh but also diverse. But the most famous and most distinctive of all are hairtail and swimming crab.

7. Wenzhou

The people of Wenzhou have light tastes, so their requirement for seafood is just one word: fresh. Wenzhou's most famous seafood producing areas are Dongtou, Lingkun and Yanting. Here you can go out with the fishermen to experience the fun of fishing, or quietly wait for the first fishing boats to return.

8. Shanwei

Shanwei is adjacent to the South China Sea. The South China Sea has high-quality seawater and relatively high water temperatures, and is rich in seafood varieties, making it one of the regions with the largest seafood output in China. South China Sea seafood is characterized by a rich variety and short growth cycles, and its fish are generally larger than those in other sea areas.

9. Beihai

Beihai in Guangxi has been a famous port since ancient times, and the Beibu Gulf is one of China's four major fishing grounds. The Tanka culture is of great significance in Beihai; Tanka fishermen have long made their living by fishing, pearl harvesting, oyster harvesting and other sea operations, so seafood occupies a supreme position in Beihai's diet. The biggest features of the seafood of Weizhou Island in Beihai, Guangxi, are that it is pure, natural and pollution-free.

As people's living standards improve, there is a great variety of ingredients on the dining table, but when it comes to seafood, the coastal areas are still the most abundant. As for China's seafood producing areas, which place do you think has the most delicious and cheapest seafood?

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