After raising snails that eat fish

This is an inconspicuous creature, with small eyes and short antennae, which becomes very fierce at night. A small fish is thrown and eaten up in three or four hours. Small as the snail is, it is very powerful. He earned millions a year from this kind of Dongfeng snail, but unfortunately he encountered a terrible disaster. See how Yang Meng of Wengtian Town in Hainan Province fought back, finding business opportunities on small snails and realizing wealth and dreams.

This is the aquatic product wharf located in Yugang Street, Sanya City, Hainan Province. At 7 a. M. on December 3, 2015, as soon as the returning fishing boat landed, the dock became very busy, and the vendors rushed on with baskets, trying to get the freshest catch as soon as possible. The fishing boat docked properly, the goods were carried ashore by boxes, and the tourists and vendors who came to Sanya on holiday crowded together to grab the goods, which became a unique scenery here.

Everyone gathered on the dock to bargain, and some of them were still buying and selling. There are many kinds of seafood here, including silverfish, red spot, sea snake, mackerel and hundreds of kinds of seafood.

The time for trading on the dock is very limited, less than two hours. At this time, a person in the crowd is anxiously looking for it. If he misses the peak of receiving goods, he will get nothing all day. His name is Yang Meng, and he came all the way from Haikou. Before that, he had run through nearly 10 docks in Fujian and Guangzhou and returned disappointed. Yang Meng is not interested in these fish and shrimps. He came here just to find a kind of snail.

Interviewer: what are you looking for?

Yang Meng: come here and look for Dongfeng nut. Brother, do you have any Dongfeng snails?

Vendor: no.

Yang Meng: can you find it?

Interviewer: not anymore? Why not?

Yang Meng: because the price is too high, many people were arrested in the past, but now there are fewer and fewer people, so it is difficult to catch them. Like this kind of fish 2 or 3 yuan per jin, if Dongfeng snail is caught at the seaside, it will cost at least 50-60 yuan.

December is the off-season for snails, coupled with the relatively high price of Dongfeng snails, Yang Meng has been turning on the wharf for more than an hour, but still has not found it. He was very anxious, while looking for, while asking the local vendors, but still no harvest, and even many people do not know what Dongfeng snail is.

Yang Meng: have you seen Dongfeng snail?

Vendor: I don't know, no.

Vendor: Dongfeng snail? I don't understand. I've never heard of it. There's no snail catcher.

After several turns on the dock, even fishmongers who often deal with seafood have rarely heard of Dongfeng snails. So, what on earth is Dongfeng snail, and why does Yang Meng have to find it?

The search on the dock failed, and Yang Meng planned to go to sea on his own. He told reporters that recently, he has been collecting nuts through various channels, and if all goes well, he can make a lot of money this year.

Exposure to the vast sea, Yang Meng is very adventurous, he only built a floating board, directly floated out.

The water beneath our feet is tens of meters deep, and we all sweat for him. The wind and waves on the sea are one after another, and the consequences are unimaginable if they fall.

After sailing for more than ten kilometers, we finally saw the Dongfeng snail he was looking for.

Interviewer: is there?

Yang Meng: the net is OK, and it still catches a little bit. It looks like this. This is Dongfeng snail. As soon as it is fished out, it has a feeling of hibernation. The sea is crawling, leaving the water for a few seconds, it will take back its belly foot.

East wind snail, also known as square spot east wind snail, flower snail, is a kind of carnivorous shellfish living in tropical and subtropical waters. They like to hide in shallow water, dozens of meters deep in the sand. Because of its small size, Dongfeng snail is inconspicuous in the silt. in the past, fishermen in Hainan only treated it as a small miscellaneous snail. Even if you pick it up by the way, you can't escape the fate of being thrown away. No one has ever paid any attention to Dongfeng snail.

Yang Meng: such a small snail is very inconspicuous here. In the past, we could only cook and eat the snail by ourselves. there was no market for snails in the market, so we couldn't get out of the market.

Because I don't know where to sell it, in the past, no one in Wengtian Town would have made a special trip to catch Dongfeng snails. However, it is this kind of snail that no one thinks highly of. Yang Meng not only used it in 2014, but also created a wealth of more than 3 million yuan a year. He also set up a cooperative to lead everyone to get rich. At present, hundreds of snail farms, large and small, have been built in Wengtian Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province, where Yang Meng is located, and almost every household is raising Dongfeng snails to make money.

Villager: everyone used to raise shrimp, because Dongfeng snail made money and built it as long as there was land, with a profit of 30% to 40.

Villager: everyone raised it together. I made more than one million yuan.

By raising Dongfeng snail, many villagers in Wengtian Town have made a lot of money. However, when the reporter asked about the breeding process of Dongfeng snail, everyone's face changed, as if they had experienced a terrible nightmare.

Villagers: very miserable, rotten, all the snails are dead, they are 100 years old have never seen, are very scared.

Villagers: the people are gone, the houses are gone, and the houses are down. This is basically the case in our sea area. People are scared when they see it. If they do it again, it's really over.

Why does Dongfeng snail, which can make money, make the villagers so afraid? what is the unknown story of Yang Meng breeding Dongfeng snail?

On December 4, 2015, when the reporter went to interview, Yang Meng took us to his snail farm. Dongfeng snail is a creature that sleeps during the day and comes out at night. It is said that it will become very ferocious at night.

Interviewer: where is the snail?

Yang Meng: in the sand, you can only see some tentacles. He will come out to find something to eat at night and hide in the sand during the day.

Usually Dongfeng snail likes to bury itself in the silt. as soon as it smells, it immediately comes out to hunt, and can even eat a fish dozens of times bigger than it.

Yang Meng: this kind of fish is a snail. It gets up as soon as it is thrown down for less than 2-3 seconds.

A small fish was thrown in, and the pond full of Dongfeng snails was awakened immediately.

Interviewer: it seems to be coming out.

Yang Meng: as soon as he smelled the fish, it came out immediately.

Dongfeng snails set out collectively, and in less than 10 seconds, the whole fish was wrapped up. It is said that they were so ferocious that they could eat up a fish in three or four hours. The reporter saw in Yang Meng's snail pond that it was like this everywhere, eating leftover fish bones and fish bones, which made people feel creepy.

Interviewer: it won't bite me. It tickles. Doesn't it want to eat fish? will it eat my hand? I think it's sucking me.