Is the price of freshwater fish not as expected in winter? What will happen to the market in the later period?

With the advent of winter, there has been a marked drop in temperature all over the place. this chill has cooled the aquatic products wholesale market. Recently, the market price of freshwater fish has also fluctuated to varying degrees, and most fish species have begun to reduce their prices.

The weather is cold, why is the price of freshwater fish not as expected? What will happen to the market in the later period?

Recently, with the cold air moving south, many places in the south have ushered in a cooling. At the Yangdong Aquatic Wholesale Market in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, the reporter learned that due to the drop in temperature, the purchase channel was affected, and the wholesale price of freshwater fish also dropped. Jiang Fulin, a fishery wholesaler:

Jiang Fulin: seventeen perch, seventeen Sturgeon, eight Pomfret and fourteen Dinggui fish.

Reporter: is the price up or down compared with the previous two months?

Jiang Fulin: it has fallen. I don't know the details. Anyway, business is not good and business is depressed, so the price has fallen.

Local aquatic wholesalers told reporters that since November, with the continuous fishing of reservoirs and lakes in the main producing areas, the number of freshwater fish on the market has increased significantly, so the market price will also decline. Wu Ke, the owner of the aquatic products store in the farmers' market:

Interviewer: why did it fall?

Wu Ke: there are ups and downs. If it goes up for a period of time, it will fall for a period of time. If foreign fish enter the market, the price will fall.

Recently, northern lakes and reservoirs have also continued to increase fishing, and the price of freshwater fish has also declined. Yang Hongru, a freshwater fish dealer in Jimusar County, Xinjiang:

Yang Hongru: the carp has been dropped, and the price of the carp is 17. Because it's winter, it's not easy to raise fish in winter, and you get less profit.

Shi Qingcai, an analyst at the Beijing Shuitun Agricultural Wholesale products Wholesale Market, told reporters that recently, the market volume of freshwater fish in the north has increased significantly, and although the price has dropped somewhat, the demand is also relatively stable.

Shi Qingcai: at present, the main producing areas are still Hebei and Tianjin. This year, the proportion of freshwater fish farmed on the surface of Tianjin is higher than that of farmed marine fish. Judging from the current situation, the market of freshwater fish and aquatic products as a whole basically shows a stable and weak trend. At present, the prices of several kinds of freshwater fish are going down, such as carp, grass carp and crucian carp. The market volume of these three kinds of freshwater fish is relatively large, and the overall freshwater fish market is about 8% lower than last year.

Judging from the annual rule, there will be a slight decline in the price of freshwater fish after National Day holiday, but this year's range is larger than that of last year. Shi Qingcai told the reporter that in addition to the weather, there are also factors for the expansion of aquaculture.

Shi Qingcai: the reason is that the water surface of freshwater fish cultured in Tianjin this year is higher than that of last year, which leads to a reversal in prices this year. The market of freshwater fish was better last year. Affected by last year's market, farmers expanded the cultivation area of freshwater fish, coupled with high yields, resulting in lower prices this year than in previous years.

Analysts said that in the short term, there will be no major fluctuations in the freshwater fish market in the last half to one month. However, with the late transfer of the main producing areas from north to south, the increase in transportation costs, coupled with the impact of the festival effect, the market price of northern freshwater fish may rise slightly.

Shi Qingcai: in the later winter, the producing area of freshwater fish will gradually shift from Tianjin and Hebei to Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. The transportation distance of these three places will increase, so the transportation cost will also increase. Therefore, in the later stage, the price of freshwater fish will usher in a new wave of small sales peak, and the price will naturally rise slightly.