Yanting Township is the key fishery township in Wenzhou City, producing pike crabs, clove fish, herring, shrimp mayflies and other valuable sea treasures, which are exported both at home and abroad, and is an important aquatic products processing base in Wenzhou City and a temporary base of live products, which annually generates considerable foreign exchange for the country ......

Yanting River Crab (i.e., pike crabs) This crab for Zhejiang Yanting's famous aquatic products, known as a large and fresh and famous domestic and foreign markets. Yanting, located in the Ao River out to sea, is the confluence of cold and warm currents, bait-rich, is a unique breeding ground for river crabs, so the abundance of river crabs. Here, the river crab, production, good quality, generally weigh 250 grams to 300 grams, the big one has more than 500 grams, and body fat meat full of meat, fat, fat cream full of fat, delicious flavor, rich in nutrients. Each hundred grams of crab meat containing 14 grams of protein, fat 2.6 grams. Fresh food to steam mainly can also be salted and processed "gun crab", crab sauce, crab eggs by rinsing and drying that is to become "crab roe", are seafood products in the top quality. Production Season March to May and September to October is the peak season for production of cultured species, and the Spring Festival is the peak season for harvesting. Local name: pike crab, gun crab, sea crab, sea crab, three-point crab, sea worm, water crab, door crab, small door crab, cover fish, child crab, flying crab.

October 23, 1981, Cangnan County, Yanting live pike crabs using quick-frozen began to be sold to Japan by air. Since then, Yanting undertook the production and marketing of Chinese pike crabs abroad and became famous in domestic and foreign markets.

By the Yanting local chef cooking "river crab fried rice cake" is a local famous dish, y foreign tourists like.