For Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, the opening of the lake is just a form of business to provide a marketing rhetoric only. Some industry insiders told reporters that the "opening ceremony" was first initiated from Yangcheng Lake, has slowly become a marketing tool, on the one hand, to help create momentum to build the overall brand of hairy crabs Yangcheng Lake, on the other hand, intentionally or unintentionally also become a means of weakening the hairy crabs from other origins Yangcheng Lake! --As long as I did not open the lake, your crabs are not selling well!

But in fact, crab farmers are based on market demand to fish crab, a few days early and a few days late to fish crab and there is no substantial difference. Even for Yangcheng Lake, the local hairy crabs have long been fishing. A clear sign is that in Yangcheng Lake yesterday before the lake, in Suzhou Kunshan Yangcheng Lake in large and small crab museum has long been filled with diners from Shanghai and other neighboring regions, and all crab museums say that the sale is Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs. "So the so-called 'first fishing' is just a marketing rhetoric, the locals will not believe!" Yangcheng Lake locals said, from the beginning of September around the large and small crab museums have begun to operate, the open-air crab market has long been trading. They are obviously not afraid to come to the "mouth anxious" diners.

While many people's mouths are in a hurry, some industry experts point out that it is still far from the best time to eat crab, even if Yangcheng Lake chose to open the lake days are also early. "In order to catch up with the National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival sales slot, every year the opening of the lake is selected about a week before the festival to open the lake, in order to catch up with the concentrated outbreak of the group consumption, which is still a commercial point of view." He introduced, really from the breeding point of view, hairy crabs the most fertile time should start from late October, has been able to continue to December.