Portunus Huanghua is a specialty of Huanghua City, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. Portunus trituberculatus is the most important seafood along the coast of Huanghua, with the peak season from March to May and 9- 10, and the output of Liaodong Peninsula in Bohai Bay is more from April to May.
Huanghua belongs to Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, and borders Bohai Sea in the east. Huanghua has a long history, and Liu County is the first place in Qin Dynasty. 1943, Xinhai County and Qingcheng County merged into Xinqing County. 1945, the Shandong Military Region was renamed Huanghua County to commemorate the former deputy commander of the Jilubian Military Region and the anti-Japanese martyr who died in 1943. 1989 Withdraw county and set up city. Huanghua has a coastline of 65.8 kilometers and is rich in products. Since ancient times, it has been known as "the advantage of fishing and salt dominates the world". The annual output of aquatic products accounts for 45% of the total output of aquatic products in Hebei Province, especially prawns, swimming crabs and whitebait in Bohai Sea.
Portunus trituberculatus is the largest crab in China. He is good at swimming and dredging, often lurking near the seabed or estuary, fierce and aggressive, with strong reproduction and rapid growth. At the end of March, crabs swam to shallow water to lay eggs, and the largest individual of spawning crabs reached 750 grams. The peak of spawning is in the middle and late April, and it usually takes three years from the first juvenile crab stage to the mature stage. Female crabs account for more than 80% in inshore spawning grounds, but there are more male crabs in the open sea, and the main fishing season is in April. According to the old fisherman, the temperature in the wintering period or the water temperature in the wintering field has a great influence on the catch of Portunus trituberculatus. Before and after Grain Rain, crabs were the most plump. Although they could be caught in autumn, they were not plump (but before wintering, male crabs were particularly plump and plump, so they were called "stubble male crabs"). Male crabs are commonly called "pointed umbilicus", immature male crabs are called "hooked umbilicus", and female crabs are commonly called "round umbilicus". Female crabs are better, and big crabs with eggs are also called "pomegranate yellow". The market prices of male crabs and female crabs are quite different. Crab meat is white, fleshy, tender, smooth and delicious. In particular, the shredded pork with two pincers' pincers' feet is smooth and sweet, fragrant with crab yellow, unique in food, and has a long-standing reputation, ranking first in seafood.
Quality characteristics of Portunus Huanghua
The distinctive features of Portunus Huanghua are plump body, few spots, high muscle elasticity, tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition. Portunus Huanghua contains protein14g per 100g of meat, which is rich in various trace elements and amino acids, and has its own uniqueness in taste, nutritional components and appearance characteristics.