"There are too many snakeheaded fish now, and it feels like it will be difficult to sell them all this year." The bad situation of snakeheaded fish this year has given farmers a headache, and dealers and distributors are also having a hard time. The most terrible thing is that currently

The situation will not end anytime soon.

Snakehead fish has a high-density and high-yield model in many places, especially in Guangdong, where the density is the highest. Many ponds start at 20,000 kilograms per mu. In areas where breeding is concentrated, such as Foshan, the output per mu basically starts at 25,000 kilograms.

The tall one weighs more than 30,000 pounds.

If calculated based on 30,000 kilograms of snakehead fish per mu, the current loss of 1 kilogram of fish is 1.5-2.5 yuan, and farmers will lose 45,000-75,000 yuan per mu. "With the increase of breeding time, it won't be long before many people may lose 1 kilogram.

The fish will lose 3 yuan."

The proportion of snakeheaded fish sold by Mr. Li, a farmer in Foshan, yesterday was 90% over 2 kilograms. The purchase price was 6.15 yuan/catty, and the feed-to-material ratio was about 1.5. He lost 2 yuan per kilogram of fish.

Today he sold another batch of fish. The price is about 60% for more than 2 kilograms. The purchase price is only 5.5 yuan/jin. "Now, no matter big or small fish, they are all losing money. The longer they are raised, the worse the losses will be."

This is completely opposite to last year’s price increase. During last year’s price increase, farmers could sell a pound of fish for an extra seventy or eighty cents if they waited an extra day, and an acre of fish sold after one day of delay could fetch more than 20,000 yuan more.

, selling a pond of fish can easily buy an Audi, and the farmers are very happy.

Boss Zhou is a snakehead feed dealer in Foshan. He also raises more than 100 acres of ponds. He and his customers have sold out of fish before and after the new year. In a few days, he will prepare nearly millions of black sesame seeds.

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Boss Zhou told Aquaculture Network that last year when prices were good, it was not difficult to earn 4 or 5 yuan per pound of fish, and 120,000 to 150,000 yuan per acre of fish pond. “The profits are so good that many people have increased the amount of snakeheaded fish culture.

, there are also many factory and entity bosses who see how profitable snakeheaded fish is, and they also come in to raise snakeheaded fish.”

Boss Zhou has been in the feed distribution business for more than 20 years and has been raising fish for more than 10 years. He is used to seeing the ups and downs of the market. Last year, he suggested to his customers to release early seedlings. “Our breeding technology is very mature. Release seedlings early and sell fish early.”

With good cost control, when prices drop at the end of the year, my customers still make some profits."

It is understood that many of Mr. Zhou’s customers sell fish at a unified price of about 8 yuan/catty at the end of the year, and the cost is about 7.2 yuan/catty. One catty of fish earns about 80 cents, and an output of 30,000 catties per mu can earn more than 20,000 yuan. Although

The profit is very different from the high price stage, but now the price is getting lower and lower, and the losses are getting worse and worse.

According to Boss Zhou's thinking, he still needs to release seedlings as soon as possible this year. As long as he can maintain his capital when selling fish at the end of the year, he will be satisfied.

Boss Zhou said that as long as the fish farming time is controlled to 9 months, the feed ratio can be controlled at around 1.2-1.3, and the cost will not be high. "As long as we don't lose money, let's get through this difficult period first. I am now

The price is too bad, but we don’t want to switch to other species. This year we will still raise early-batch fish. Even if we lose a little bit, it won’t be a big deal. After all, we made a profit when the price was the highest before.”

Nowadays, the number of snakehead ponds in Guangdong is so large that there are no accurate statistics. In short, it is very large.

Boss Xu, who has been purchasing snakeheaded fish in the Pearl River Delta region all year round, told Aquaculture Network that the number of ponds in stock is increasing, mainly due to several reasons: First, the pond mouth for breeding snakeheaded fish has expanded a lot, and there are more people who know how to cultivate snakeheaded fish but don’t know how to do it.

Many people raise snakeheaded fish, and the breeding volume of snakeheaded fish has increased by 20-30%, and in some places it has increased by 40-50%; secondly, the market consumption is generally small, and the processing plants purchase a large amount, but they cannot consume such a large stock quickly.

Third, when prices were high last year, many farmers hoped that fish prices would continue to rise and missed a good opportunity to sell fish; fourth, now that prices have dropped so sharply, there are relatively few farmers who are willing to cut meat and sell fish.

Most people are very reluctant.

On March 29, the "2023 Triangle Raw Fish Food Culture Carnival and Raw Fish Industry Zhongshan Research Institute Unveiling Ceremony" opened at the Cultural Plaza of Triangle Town, Zhongshan City. It is hoped that through this food culture carnival, the integration of snakeheaded fish farming, processing and catering industries will be further promoted

Develop and improve the recognition and influence of triangle snakehead food culture.

This food culture festival will be held for the first time in 2021, but it will be held on December 6. This year, this time period was chosen to hold the raw fish food festival, which is also intended to stimulate consumption. However, for main production areas such as Foshan and Zhongshan, the huge existence

The amount of food consumed is not driven by one or two food festivals.

Nowadays, it is too difficult for farmers to cut meat and sell fish.

However, some large investors who are familiar with the laws of the snakehead fish market believe that based on the current circulation speed, the fish must be slowly cut off and sold at a loss, otherwise the fish farmers will be even more unlucky if such consumption continues.

Because pond pressing takes too long, the feed ratio will only get higher and higher, and the cost of breeding will get higher and higher. If fish prices cannot recover in a short time, they will lose money every day, and the longer they delay, the more they will lose. "Most farmers have no market risks.

Consciously, when fish prices get better, they will go up and release fish desperately. This kind of following the trend is inherently very dangerous."