Why is there such a big difference in the price of sea crabs between the north and the south?

There is a shortage of sea crabs in the south and north, and the price is hot and icy.

Recently, local seafood markets have ushered in the season of shortage as the weather gets colder day by day, according to Rural China Voice of China, three Rural China. According to the rules of previous years, the price of sea crabs should rise sharply during this period of time. In the southern aquatic products market, the price of local sea crabs has been running at a high level, the supply of goods is in demand, and there is a lively scene.

However, the northern sea crab market shows a completely opposite situation, compared with the southern market, the price of the northern sea crab does not rise but fall. Some people wonder why there is such a big difference between the north and the south when there is also a shortage of supplies in winter.

In December, the temperature in the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea and East China Sea is getting lower and lower, and the number of fishing boats going out to sea is much less than that of the previous period, which makes the supply of seafood on shore tight. In the Shandong Weihai Aquatic products Wholesale Market, the prices of some seafood have risen significantly, and the prices of sea crabs have risen by nearly 1. 4. The stall owner, Aunt Ruan,

Aunt Ruan: crabs are very popular now, and the price can't go down. 80 of the female with seeds and 60 of the unseeded ones are 15 to 20 yuan higher than last month.

Aunt Ruan said that due to the cold weather, there is no artificial breeding of sea crabs sold on the market recently, and almost all of them are caught in the sea. Fishing depends on the weather, so once there is wind and rain, it will affect the loading of sea crabs, resulting in a rise in prices.

Aunt Ruan: in the current weather conditions, there are no farmers, so they can only go out to sea to catch crabs. As soon as the wind comes, the ship has to go back to the port, and can't leave the next day after returning to the port. When the ship rested for two days, the supply of goods was reduced and the price went up immediately.

Southern crabs sell unboiled water, but in the northern aquatic products market, it is a different scene. Liu Bin, an aquatic product supplier in Dalian, Liaoning Province, is worrying about the price of swimming crabs this year.

Liu Bin: in previous years, if it was winter, prices would be on the rise. This year is not good. This year is indeed a bit abnormal for sea crabs like ours.

Sun Yuqi, who works in the aquatic business in Dandong, Jilin Province, is just as confused as Liu Bin. He said that the price of northern sea crabs is not the slightest bit lower than last year.

Sun Yuqi: it has been declining bit by bit since last year, and the decline this year is even worse than last year. The price is now around 80, four taels of upward female crabs. It reached about 122 last year.

Sun Yuqi told reporters that compared with this time period in previous years, the number of swimming crabs in the north has not increased. In the past two years, the fishery resources in the Huangbo area are becoming more and more scarce, and the supply of northern crabs is more tight. However, the price of northern crabs continues to fall.

Sun Yuqi: our supply has nothing to do with the price. The size of the supply has nothing to do with the price. No matter how much we buy, it is the same price.

In theory, the price of supply less than demand should go up, why do you say that the supply has nothing to do with the price? What is the reason for the phenomenon that Sun Yuqi said violates the economic law in the northern sea crab market? A sentence from Aunt Ruan of Shandong Weihai Aquatic products Wholesale Market tells the whole story.

Aunt Ruan: there are people from the north who come to collect which mother tapes. When they are finished, send them to them. Our side is definitely cheaper than the north side. Customers prefer our local crabs, and our crabs taste better than them.

It turns out that in order to meet the needs of northern customers, some suppliers began to wholesale a large number of southern sea crabs from the south, and then shipped them to the north for sale. The taste of the southern sea crab is similar to that of the north, but the price is much cheaper and is soon favored by the market. Sun Yuqi, a northern seller:

Sun Yuqi: the female crabs in the south are about 60 to 70. There are a large number of crabs in the south this year, so the price in the south can be a little higher, while the crabs on the Dandong side of Donggang can be smaller and less, and then there are too many crabs in the south, so we top up the crabs in the northeast! The price came down.

Not only that, because the southern crab production is high, and the quality is cheap, even the foreign market also begins to favor the southern sea crab. Sun Yuqi said: in previous years, most of the crabs exported to South Korea came from the north. But this year, southern crabs have become substitutes and began to be exported overseas, which has dealt a heavy blow to the northern crab market.

Sun Yuqi: in previous years, crabs from the north went to South Korea and sent to other places. This year, crabs are coming out in the south. Because crabs in the south are cheap and there is a price gap, so now they import crabs from the south. Crabs in the north have fallen very sharply.

This year, the crab market in the northern and southern markets can be described as a few happy and several sad. However, there is no unsalable phenomenon everywhere. Xu Chunhui, an analyst at Shandong Weihai Aquatic products Wholesale Market, predicts that crab prices in both the south and the north will rise in the later stage.

Xu Chunhui: judging from the market law of previous years, the possibility of a sharp decline in the price of swimming crab in the market in December will not be too great. Apart from the influence of the weather, another main reason is that with the approach of New Year's Day, the trading of swimming crab in the market will gradually become active, and the market price is expected to show a concussive rise in the later stage.