Famous oyster producing areas in China and the differences of oysters in each producing area.
North:
Weihai
Laoshan Oyster
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Laoshan is located in the southeast end of Shandong Peninsula. With a coastline of 185.6 kilometers, it has a mild climate, small temperature difference, abundant rainfall and plenty of light, making it an excellent oyster farming site.
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Laoshan oyster farming varieties are mainly Pacific oysters, which are also known as long oysters, Crassostrea gigas, and Pacific oyster in English, and are often called "sea oysters" by the people in Laoshan.
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October to May every year is the most fertile season for oysters, with greenish-white oyster meat, soft and tender texture, and strong flavor, which is known as "ocean milk". The oyster cultivation in Lushan is mainly based on Pacific oyster and adopts the raft type cultivation method. The aquaculture area is mainly distributed in the open waters from the west to the mouth of Lushan and from the east to the mouth of Langnuan. The oyster industry has become one of the pillar industries of the fishery economy in the city of Lushan.
Oysters in Nanhai New Area
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Nanhai New Area is the place where the largest number of oysters have been produced in recent years in Weihai, Shandong Province, and a 100,000-acre sea farming cooperative has an annual harvest of 100 million in the area of Sangdao alone. Thanks to the local government's increasing awareness of marine protection, there are almost no polluting enterprises in the area, and the farming environment is very good. As a result, the meat of oysters is not only strong but also a bit more crisp. In addition, the high sand content in the South China Sea effectively inhibits the growth of other algae, so the oysters grown in this way are of high edible and medicinal value.
Qingdao Hongdao sea oysters
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Because of the Hongdao Huanglan is located in the estuary of the Dagu River, the salinity of the sea water is on the low side, the microorganisms are more abundant, especially suitable for the growth of shellfish. The sea oysters and clams produced here are superior to those from other regions in terms of taste and plumpness, and were once the first seafood from Hongdao to be exported overseas.
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In Hongdao, "Hongdao clams" play a leading role in spring and summer. In the winter and spring seasons, the oysters come on stage and become a home-cooked food on the people's table. Wild oysters are generally small, six or seven centimeters long, the shape of the more round, but each thin skin and thick meat, delicious flavor, high nutritional value. And farmed sea oysters thick skin, meat astringent, twelve or thirteen centimeters long.
Weifang Laohekou oysters
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Laohekou oysters are a specialty of the Laohekou Sea in Weifang City, Shandong Province. The near-river oysters in the sea area of Laohekou in Weifang are natural biological species with fresh flavor and tender flesh, high nutritional value and medicinal value, which are important economic shellfish resources. The natural conditions of Laohekou sea area in this area are superior, and the oysters in the near-shore sea area are growing and reproducing vigorously, which are more concentrated, with layers attached, staggered and overlapped, and with higher density, commonly known as "oyster mountain".
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The scientific name of the river oyster is Crassostrea rivularis, and its body shape varies, including round, oval, triangular and rectangular. The right shell is slightly flattened, the surface is ringed with thin and flat scales, the scales of the low-toothed shell are flat, thin and brittle, and the scales of the high-aged mouth are laminated and thick as stone. The left shell is thicker and larger than the right shell, with fewer scales. The surface of the shell is gray, green, purple, brown and yellow. The inner surface of the shell is white and the edge is grayish purple.
Yantai pleated oyster
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The pleated oyster, scientifically known as Alectryonella plicatula, is one of the main economic shellfish in the intertidal zone of Penglai City. It is characterized by fast growth, strong adaptability and high nutritional value of products.
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The pleated oyster is mainly distributed in the sea area of Penglai after the Pavilion, Wiping Straight Mouth, Wanzi Mouth, Liu Jiawang and Zhu Jiazhuang, with a resource area of about 800 acres and a resource volume of about 150 tons.
It is rich in nutrients, tender and flavorful meat, easy to digest and absorb. Its fresh products contain protein, sugar, fat and a variety of minerals, vitamins, etc. It is not only a delicacy on the table, but also human medicine. Its shell can be made of cement and livestock feed additives. It can be said that the whole body is a treasure.
Liaoning
Dalian Bay oysters
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Dalian Bay oysters are named for their origin in the waters around Dalian Bay. The shell is large, with a length of 1 centimeter and a height of 6 centimeters. The top of the shell, extended to the abdomen gradually expanding, nearly triangular. The shell is large, slightly triangular, large and moderately thick. The two shells are generally unequal in size, with the left shell larger than the right. The surface of the shell is grayish yellow with purple stripes or spots. The inner surface of the shell is white, glossy, with small, toothless hinges and long, deep grooves in the inner ligament.
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Dalian Bay oysters are produced in the Yellow Bohai Sea, with the season running from November to April. Due to overfishing, Dalian Bay oysters have become a completely artificial breed, and local laws have been introduced to set a fishing ban, while their market price is soaring year by year.
Zhuanghe oysters
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Zhuanghe, Liaoning Province, which has a mild climate, is located in the warm zone of the northern hemisphere, with distinctive seasonal changes, which is very suitable for the development of oyster farming industry. The two shells of Zhuanghe oysters are different in shape, with rough, dark gray surface; the middle part of the upper shell is elevated; the lower shell is attached to other objects, larger, rather flat, with smooth edges; and the inner surfaces of both shells are white and smooth.
South:
Guangdong
Zhanjiang oysters
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Zhanjiang bordering the sea, the shoreline is long. more than 1,300 kilometers of stretching the coast, there are many bays, vast shoals. Coastal reefs are dotted with rocks, overlapping rocks, plankton aggregates, and organic matter is abundant, making it a good place for oysters to grow and reproduce. There are oysters in every sea, and Zhanjiang oysters are famous for their vast production area. Zhanjiang oysters to Guandu Shimen, Taiping Kuzhu origin is the most famous.
Zhanjiang oysters to taste fresh mouth, fat and smooth meat, tender and soft and crisp unique qualities and famous eaters. In the past, Zhanjiang people like to use fat oysters to cook soup to entertain guests, oyster soup is fresh and sweet, milky white, "sea milk" of the name; soup in the remaining oysters, light, smooth, nourishing yin and nourishing the face, but also "sea ginseng" reputation. Guests are able to taste the fat oysters in Zhanjiang for the fast thing, so there are rumors that "the meeting can not be no poetry and wine, feast when there must be fat oysters," said.
Nan'ao Oysters
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Nan'ao County is the only island county in Guangdong Province, which has a subtropical ocean monsoon climate, a vast area of sea, and rich marine life, and is endowed with unique advantages for developing Pacific oyster farming, which has a high yield of oysters with fat meat.
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Nan'ao Island "environmental oyster" farm
The development of oyster aquaculture has made Pacific oyster aquaculture production an important pillar of the county's sea water aquaculture industry and a fist product. 2005, the county's sea water aquaculture area amounted to 41,300 acres, with an output of 53,800 tons and an output value of 18,800 tons. In 2005, the total area of seawater aquaculture in the county reached 41,300 mu, with an output of 53,800 tons and an output value of 187,850,000 yuan, of which 21,000 mu of Pacific oyster aquaculture area accounted for 51% of the county's aquaculture area, and the aquaculture output of 37,800 tons accounted for 70.4% of the county's aquaculture output.
Nanshan oysters
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Nanshan oysters and "Nanshan Lychee Shajing oysters" are known as two famous brands of agricultural products in Shenzhen. "Shajing oysters are actually produced in the front and back of the Nanshan District, and are also known locally as "Nantou oysters". Nanshan oyster belongs to the near-river oyster species, which is the best oyster species. Because the front and back bays are close to the mouth of the Pearl River, the salty and fresh waters meet each other, and plankton is abundant; together with the temperature conditions of the festival warmth and coolness at night in the early winter, Nanshan oysters are full of fat and creamy fat, which are especially tender and smooth in the mouth.
Gao Luo Oysters
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Shaifeng Gao Luo Oysters are produced in Gao Luo Village, Dahu Town, Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, where the rich natural conditions of fresh and sea water have become a paradise for oysters to grow. Gao Luo oysters have become a local specialty with large size and crystalline texture, and are highly favored by people. Now the brand of "China Gao Luo Ming Oyster" enjoys a good reputation both at home and abroad, and sells well in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia and other regions and countries.
Yangxi Chengcun oysters
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Chengcun oysters refers to the oysters produced in the town of Chengcun, Yangxi County, Guangdong Province, under the jurisdiction of HaoShan, GenZhuShan, HongMuShan, LongShi, four villages, where the water is salty and light and there are many harbors, underneath the rich micro-organisms, is very suitable for oyster growth. Yangxi County is "China's oyster township", Chengcun Township is a well-known oyster town, where oysters are farmed to "large, juicy, sweet and crispy meat," known.
Taishan oysters
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Taishan oysters are a famous specialty of Taishan, because the oyster fields in Taishan are at the confluence of salt and fresh water, oysters sucked seawater in the plankton especially, so the oysters here are fatter than in other places, and the taste is more delicious, Taishan oysters in the village of Yokohama were even crowned "golden oysters! "
Taiwan
Taiwan
Oysters are also known as "oysters" in the southeastern coastal area of China. Taiwan's oyster farming industry has a history of more than 200 years, and the province's coastline for oyster farming is more than 200 kilometers long. Changhua, Yunlin, Chiayi and other counties are the main production areas of oysters in Taiwan, where the natural conditions are unique and the oysters produced here are world-renowned.
Densely lamellated oyster
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Scientific name: Ostrea denselamellosa, English: Densely lamellated oyster, called densely lamellated oyster in mainland China and slipper oyster in Taiwan, is mainly found in Vietnam, the South China Sea, Malaysia, South Korea, mainland China, It is mainly distributed in Vietnam, South China Sea, Malaysia, Korea, China, and Taiwan, and the eating season is winter and spring. Raw oysters are rich in flavor, slightly astringent and bitter in the mouth, but after chewing for a few moments, they will become sweet again, with a taste comparable to that of French Girardeau oysters.
Black-toothed oyster
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The shell is coarsely ribbed with purple-brown, yellow-brown, and black color, with wavy black-purple edges. The left shell is fixed in the reef, and the right shell is cap-shaped and covers the left shell, which is larger than the right shell.
Zhejiang
Yueqing Oyster
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Yueqing Oyster is a specialty of Qingjiang Town, Yueqing City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Qingjiang Town is located east of Yueqing Bay, which has unique conditions for oyster cultivation, and it has become a real "hometown of Chinese oysters". Since 1979, the Pacific oyster species introduced from Japan for the first time in China has been successfully cultivated in the sea area of Qingjiang, Qingjiang Town has set up an oyster cultivation association around the oyster products, and established a more complete industrial chain integrating the production of seedling, processing and cold storage, storage and transportation of the products, scientific and technological research, brand publicity, and management of the industry association.
Yellow oysters
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Yellow oysters are produced in the east coast of Wuhu Harbor and Wuhumen of Chuanshi at the mouth of the Minjiang River in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, and have delicious meat and high nutritional value. Shell length of about 5 centimeters, about 9 centimeters high, the left shell flat, the right shell bulging like a mountain, the shell surface yellowish with purple radial lines, the inner surface of the smooth color white, often attached to the flat side of the underwater shore reefs on top of the reproduction, cumulative linkage, strings of pieces of water products belonging to the wild.
The yellow oyster is a wild aquatic product, but it is not a shellfish that has been abundant under the water of Donganmen since ancient times. According to legend, during the Yuan Dynasty, the waterway was silted up with reeds and the water flow was not smooth, which was not suitable for the yellow oyster to grow and reproduce here. One year before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, ordered Tang He to be the general to attack Fujian from Mingzhou (present-day Wenzhou) by sea. In order to facilitate the passage of the fleet, the Ming army burned the reeds, dug up the silt and rushed into the Min River. Since then, the yellow oyster has only gradually multiplied in this area.
Sanmen oysters in Taizhou
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Sanmen oysters as long as they are farmed in Tieqiang Village, Hengdu Township, Sanmen County, the oysters here are particularly large, tasty and fat, and are favored by consumers due to the unique farming conditions in Tieqiang Village, which is rich in freshwater resources and has a fertile mudflat, good water quality and is pollution-free.
Ningbo Xidian oysters
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Xidian oysters are produced in Xidian Town, Ningbo Ninghai County, and at present, 20 coastal villages in the town have strong oysters, with a farming area of 18,000 acres and an annual output of 12,800 tons. Local people call oysters "oyster yellow", and the oysters cultivated here include three varieties: "real oyster", "pleated oyster" and "oyster near river". Oysters are cultivated here in three varieties: "real oysters," "pleated oysters" and "oysters from Omi. Winter is the season of oyster production, and as the saying goes, "From the winter solstice to Qingming, the oyster meat is fat and juicy".
Fujian
Xiaomei Oyster in Zhangzhou
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Xiaomei oyster belongs to the pleated oyster species, which has a long history, and as early as the Qing Dynasty, there were records of oyster cultivation in broken tiled tanks and messy factory heads in the local chronicles, and as the cultivation technology was innovated and progressed, it evolved from the cultivation of messy stones to the cultivation of oysters in the barred stone - trellis - shallow sea hanging. -Scaffolding - shallow sea hanging oyster culture and other culturing modes. It is a famous brand product among agricultural products in Fujian Province.
Oysters from Old Town, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province
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Oysters from Old Town, Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, have been awarded the National Geographical Indications Trademark, and are known for their firm and full meat due to the favorable climate and geographic conditions.
Zhangzhou Zhangjiangkou oysters
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Zhangjiangkou oysters from Zhangzhou, Fujian, Yunxiao, located in the southeast coast of the South subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, four seasons of spring, plenty of sunshine, pleasant climate, the territory of the waterways are developed, freshwater is plentiful, the marine fisheries resources are very rich, abound in mud cockles, Bafei clams, razor clams, oysters (oysters) and other high-quality aquatic products. The city is rich in marine fishery resources, producing high quality aquatic products such as mud clam, razor clam and oyster.
Ningde Xiapu Shajiang Oyster
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The main varieties of Xiapu oyster are pleated oyster and river oyster. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a custom to start farming by inserting bamboo. The area around Shajiang Township in Xiapu has open waters and is located on the northwest coast of the Taiwan Strait, which is influenced by the oceanic climate and is characterized by a distinctive monsoon, with warm winters and cool summers, and rare frosts and snowfalls. The oysters here not only have a higher yield, but also have a strong flavor. The dried oysters produced are full of particles, golden and fragrant.
Golden oyster
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As a new cultivated variety, the Fujian Fisheries Research Institute (FFRI), based on the Fujian oyster (commonly known as the Portuguese oyster, which is also an imported variety), developed a golden oyster with a golden shell that can be eaten raw. The change of species has the advantageous characteristics of fast growth, stable genetic performance, etc., and the breeding pilot in Quanzhou deep Lu Bay.
Guangxi
Beihai oysters
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The main place of origin is Dapo in Xiba Township, with full meat and silky texture.
Qinzhou Oysters
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The oysters farmed in Qinzhou, Guangxi, are mainly near-river oysters, which are one of the four famous seafoods in Qinzhou, with the characteristics of large size, thick meat and strong body. Its flavor is delicious, juicy meat, rich in protein, nutritional value is very high. 2015, Qinzhou City, oyster farming area of 150,000 acres, production of 220,000 tons, the industry output value of 16 trillion yuan, is a veritable "China oyster township".
Fangchenggang Hongsha oysters
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Guangxi Hongsha village is also one of the oyster production area, the annual output of about 215,000 tons, the output value of 1.29 billion yuan.