In Chaonan District, Xiaoshan Street, Dazhao Village, an area of 50 acres of Chinese soft-shelled turtle farms, more than a dozen water quality green cement ponds, large and small snappers are lying in the sun. The farm owner Zhuo Xunhua told the author that his farm has 13 ponds, all using ecological farming methods, annual output of about 35,000 pounds per mu, the output value of more than 20,000 yuan, the annual output value of about 1 million yuan. It is understood that the key to turtle farming in the feed feeding control, water quality control and disease prevention and control, with feed-fed turtle a year can be compared to the fence, with live bait such as fusiliers can reduce the cost of 10% to 30%, although the feeding cycle takes 3, 4 years, but the turtle meat is good, the price is also two times higher.

The person in charge of the Shantou Marine and Fisheries Bureau said that the farm also drove the surrounding labor force to obtain good economic and social benefits, and its ecological model of turtle farming is worth promoting.

It is understood that Chaonan in recent years to actively develop aquaculture. At present, the aquaculture area of 20,000 acres, the formation of the Gucheng thousand acres of salty enclosure aquaculture base, Zhaxiwei thousand eight acres of fish, shrimp and crab mixed culture base, South China's 10,000 acres of freshwater aquaculture bases, Tianxin Bay, high pool shrimp farming area and the shallow sea shellfish enhancement aquaculture area, the main aquaculture varieties of white shrimp, seabass, eel, tilapia, tetras, snappers, and U.S. frogs, etc., the annual output of 13,000 tons of aquaculture, generating an output value of 90 million yuan. In particular, turtle farming, in recent years has shown a good momentum of development, led to the district Xiaoshan, two British, Rougang and other local farmers have developed turtle farming.