The picked up antlers are just spread on the beach by the sea to dry, and then collected and sold back. At that time, a special person bought it, processed it, bagged it and sold it to inland areas.
Because staghorn is all over the beach, most of us here feed it to chickens and ducks. Few people used to eat it.
Later, when I was working in a restaurant, I found cold dishes mixed with it. At first taste, it feels particularly good, and there is a creaking sound at the entrance, especially when mixed with shredded cucumber and jellyfish silk, which is the most suitable small cold dish for wine.
Why are there so few antlers now? The pollution is more serious when they are spread offshore: Antlers live on offshore rocks. Nowadays, there are many sewage outlets and all kinds of garbage in the offshore, and people at the seaside rarely collect such things!
At present, few people braved the cold to collect antlers at the seaside: antlers are the freshest in winter, and they will get old and unable to bite in other seasons. But it is very hard to collect antlers. Think about how hard it is to stand in the sea and fish for antlers in the temperature of MINUS 10 degrees. So now the people who collect this kind of thing are out of sight! What is sold in the market is basically harvested by kelp culture.
The public doesn't seem to be very interested in it: the antlers are inevitably contaminated with sediment during the collection process, and the seaside people don't recognize it. And people in the mainland can't handle it well. So there are not many people who love to eat, and there are fewer people on the market. Carrageenan is not gone now! It's just that it produces less, and we can often see them for sale here. At present, most people choose the way of salting, or directly process and season it to make it ready-to-eat taste. In addition, dried cornus Cervi contains agar, which can be used to cook a flavor snack-"sea jelly powder", which is also particularly popular.
Conclusion: In the past, the staghorn in cold salad was not gone, but because fewer people eat it now. Plus it is worthless, not many people are willing to process and collect it.