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How much does a pound of lobster cost?

Australian lobster is a precious marine economic shrimp species, with a fiery red body, golden claws, and the most delicious meat. The current market wholesale price is between 200-400, and the hotel sales price is between 600-1000. There are also sales prices higher than this. Please judge for yourself whether the price is appropriate.

Freshwater crayfish is cheap here, 15 yuan per pound

It depends on what kind you buy. Australian lobsters are expensive, but delicious. They don't have big claws. They cost more than 200 yuan per pound. The price varies in different cities. It depends on the distance from the sea! The ones with big claws are said to be from Boston. They taste very ordinary and have less meat. They cost more than 100 yuan per pound (500 grams). If you want to eat good lobsters and have enough money, buy Australian lobsters. They taste really good!

According to the old measurement unit, one catty is equal to 1000 coins, three coins are equal to one gram, and 500 grams are equal to one catty.

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How much has the high price of crayfish increased since it entered the market?

May 1, 2019, It is now the season when crayfish are on the market. In Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, the main producing area of ​​crayfish, the reporter found that the price of crayfish there is still on the rise this year. The price of some high-grade crayfish has even increased by 60%.

Low production and high demand have caused crayfish prices to soar

The China Lobster Trading Center in Qianjiang, Hubei, is the largest lobster trading market in China, with a trading volume of more than 2 billion yuan in 2017. Although it was more than ten o'clock in the morning, there was an endless stream of merchants coming here to purchase lobsters, which was one and a half to two hours earlier than the peak of previous years.

Reporter: Where are you from?

Buyer: Wenzhou, come and buy it, everyone is buying it.

The reporter noticed that the shipping location signs of the logistics centers also cover almost most parts of the country, with many more places added compared with previous years.

A crayfish distributor in Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: Sales this year have increased by more than 20% year-on-year.

The sales volume of crayfish in the entire trading center also increased by more than 20% year-on-year, and the price of crayfish continued to rise this year.

A crayfish dealer in Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: The price of bulk goods this year is around 25 yuan, while it was only 18 yuan last year.

A crayfish dealer in Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: The price of standard goods is around 36 yuan, while it was only 25 yuan last year.

Dealers said that crayfish are usually graded by size, generally divided into four categories: general goods and large, medium and small. This year, the highest price of large lobsters was 39 yuan per catty, up 60% from last year. Despite the high prices, demand continues to expand.

A crayfish dealer in Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: For example, many customers previously demanded 3,000 kilograms, but this year it has become 5,000 kilograms, so the purchasing volume is very large.

Due to the strong demand from consumers, many processing companies and restaurants purchased crayfish in advance, which led to the hot sales of crayfish. At the same time, the production did not increase synchronously. The reporter learned from the main crayfish producing areas such as Hubei and Jiangsu that the extremely cold weather in the south at the beginning of this year caused the crayfish to grow slowly, which also caused the crayfish to be put on the market later.

Data from the China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association shows that the number of crayfish currently on the market nationwide is comparable to last year, but demand has increased by more than 30% year-on-year. The serious imbalance between supply and demand has led to soaring prices.

The crayfish market is booming, with both "grabbing" and "expanding"

The soaring price of crayfish has made farmers' wallets fatter. With the optimistic market conditions, farmers in many places have joined the "crawfish farming craze", and the area of ​​crayfish farming has shown explosive growth in recent years.

Zhao Fujun from Zhaonao Village, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, started to breed crayfish in 2014. At that time, Qianjiang tried to breed crayfish in rice fields, so each acre of land yielded both rice and crayfish, and his income increased several times. According to this year's prices, his income from 40 acres of land can reach 240,000 yuan, of which 80% comes from crayfish. As the price of large lobsters has increased by 50% this year, he has increased his income by tens of thousands of yuan. Not only is the market good, but he also has no worries about selling.

Zhao Fujun, a crayfish farmer in Zhaonao Village, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: We used to go to the market to sell the crayfish ourselves, but this year we don’t have to. The vendors come to our door to buy them and rush to buy them.

Zhao Fujun told reporters that due to the recent rush of traders to buy shrimp, the normal purchase of shrimp once a day has been changed to twice a day. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the second purchase of the day began. Farmers from several nearby villages brought more than 100 boxes of crayfish. Guo Xiaobin from Miaochang Village told reporters that he had never expected such a good market. When Qianjiang rice field shrimp farming was tried in 2013, he was not optimistic about the prospects and did not dare to join the ranks of farming. The next year, he could not hold back.

Guo Xiaobin, a crayfish farmer in Miaochang Village, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province: As soon as I saw that the market was so good and the risks were not as big as I had imagined, I started breeding.

In just a few minutes, Guo Xiaobin sold more than a dozen boxes of goods, which would have been impossible in previous years. Since crayfish have just come on the market, large shrimps are more popular, so he left the large shrimps for last.

Guo Xiaobin said that due to the strong demand from crayfish processing companies, restaurants and vendors this year, it is common for several businesses to rush to buy a box of crayfish. Many farmers and companies have seen the market opportunity, so the land for lobster farming in Qianjiang is increasing at a rate of more than 40% per year, and the contract fee is also rising year by year.

Some farmers who have not contracted land in their local area have begun to go abroad to contract rice fields for shrimp farming in Jiangxi, Anhui, Sichuan and other places. Taking Suqian, Jiangsu as an example, the area of ​​rice fields for shrimp farming has soared from 30,000 mu last year to 150,000 mu, which is five times that of last year.

Nie Xiaofeng, vice president of the Crayfish Industry Branch of the China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association: Now across the country, the crayfish farming area has reached more than 10 million mu, and this year's area has expanded by more than 30% year-on-year.

Capital influx stirs up the 100 billion yuan market for crayfish

The hot market of crayfish has also attracted investors to enter the market. Whether in the consumer terminal or the processing link, crayfish continues to attract capital to enter, and has formed a consumer market worth hundreds of billions of yuan.

From 2015 to date, dozens of companies have received the favor of capital. In the second half of 2015, Daxialai raised 30 million yuan in financing. In the same year, Benedict Cumberbatch raised 13.3 million yuan in equity crowdfunding on JD.com.

Mala Youhuo's Hot Life and Maxiao takeaway brands received tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing in September 2016, and Xinladao's supply chain brand Xinliangji received 50 million yuan in Series A financing in March last year.

Zhou Hei Ya announced its entry into the crayfish market in May last year and launched the Juyixia brand. This year, more than five companies have received capital injections.

Hao Lixiao, general manager of Zhou Hei Ya International Holdings Co., Ltd.: With the upgrading of market consumption, people are no longer satisfied with dining around a table, but are pursuing a personalized and casual dining culture. Crayfish meets this characteristic, so we entered this field.

Nowadays, capital has been invested in the consumption of crayfish and gradually moved forward to the processing stage. The person in charge of this Hubei crayfish production company told reporters that they had just received capital injection from a state-owned enterprise, and before that, many investment institutions had come to negotiate.

Xiu Qi, deputy general manager of Hubei Communications Investment Lake Group: In the past six months, almost 10 institutions have negotiated with us, and they are all large investment banks.

The reporter learned that in the processing stage alone, there are now more than 1,000 crayfish production companies in the country, and more than 20 companies with an output value of over 100 million yuan. So far, several companies have obtained large financing opportunities.

Tao Zhonghu, deputy secretary-general of the Crayfish Branch of the China Fisheries Association: Last year, the scale of crayfish consumption in my country reached more than 137 billion yuan, and it is still increasing at a rate of more than 30% every year. In the future, it will definitely become a trend to inject more capital into this industry.