In 2014, Hubei people spent 25.5 billion yuan on crayfish.

Crayfish production and marketing has entered the closing stage. According to the Hubei Provincial Fisheries Bureau on the 22nd, the province's total output of crayfish reached 388000 tons in 2014, with a comprehensive output value of 48.72 billion yuan. Both output and output value reached new highs. The number of restaurants operating crayfish in Hubei exceeded 14000. Hubei people spent 25.5 billion yuan on crayfish this year.

According to incomplete statistics from relevant departments, in 2014, the output value of crayfish culture in the province will reach 13.62 billion yuan, an increase of 1.46 billion yuan over the same period last year; the added value of market circulation will reach 2.41 billion yuan; enterprises will process and transform 162000 tons of raw materials of crayfish and produce 58600 tons of finished products, achieving a processing output value of 7.11 billion yuan; and crayfish exports in the province from January to September totaled 221 million US dollars, an increase of 27.8 percent over the same period last year. The number of crayfish restaurants in the province is more than 14000, and the catering output value is as high as 25.58 billion yuan. The comprehensive output value of crayfish in the province will reach 48.72 billion yuan, an increase of 21.8% over the same period last year.

In recent years, the crayfish industry has been "high fever". Crayfish in the province have entered into Zhongbai warehousing, Carrefour and other large supermarket chains with annual sales of more than 2.4 million kilograms, with an average wholesale price of 40%. 5 yuan per kilogram, up 15% from the same period last year. 7%. Wuhan's catering "shrimp season" has been extended again, and signature delicacies such as "Braised Prawns" have been listed one month earlier than in previous years. More than 1000 crayfish restaurants in Qianjiang City hold tens of thousands of diners a day, with an annual turnover of nearly 2 billion yuan. Jianli County sells more than 10,000 tons of crayfish every year to all parts of the country.

The hot market demand attracted social resources to aim at this hot industry one after another. Xiong Shenghong, a Xiantao man who had done real estate, invested more than 10 million to win 6400 mu of low lake fields to set up crayfish farms; Xiong Jianliang, a Qianjiang man who did catering business in Beijing, returned to his hometown to invest more than 1 million yuan in 500 mu of paddy fields to cultivate crayfish. According to statistics, more than 200 successful people have returned to their hometown to invest in crayfish farming, invested more than 200 million yuan, and developed crayfish farming area of more than 100000 mu.

New culture models such as "raising shrimp in rice fields" have become the main way to increase the income of shrimp farmers. Through the improvement of infrastructure and the development of ecological aquaculture, the benefits of production will be greatly enhanced. This technology fully combines rice with aquatic products, not only the high yield of shrimp, but also the quality of rice has been greatly improved.

Rice and shrimp grow only one crop a year, conserving soil and water conservation in winter, and through the selection of excellent rice varieties and reasonable close planting, 90% of the rice yield is much higher than that of the same area before. Moreover, the microorganisms and pests produced in the process of rice growth provide sufficient bait for crayfish, and the feces produced by crayfish provide good biological fertilizer for rice growth. In this way, we can form a kind of biological chain with complementary advantages and realize ecological value-added.

Tao Zhonghu, chief engineer of the Fisheries Bureau of Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, said that "shrimp-rice co-cultivation" has not only improved the comprehensive utilization rate of rice fields, but also overcome the shortcomings of the original model of commercial shrimp, such as small size, low yield, and low efficiency, which is an important technological innovation.

The crayfish cooperative in Wanmu Lake in Ezhou City has vigorously developed an efficient comprehensive breeding model of "one-season rice and three-crop shrimp." 5000 mu of water surface earns 5 million more than last year by selling more than 400,000 jin of shrimp seedlings. The average price of pollution-free rice produced by the "fragrant rice Jiayu" model in Zhongxiang City has reached 3 yuan per jin, and only rice has increased its net income by 2000 yuan per mu.

Data show that this year, the area of "shrimp culture in rice fields" in the province has reached 2.237 million mu, an increase of 287000 mu, the area of "mixed culture of shrimp and crab" has reached 979000 mu, an increase of 21000 mu, and the total area of crayfish culture in all kinds of water bodies has exceeded 4 million mu.

Qianjiang City, the hometown of crayfish, has successfully introduced 1.5 billion yuan this year, and plans to build a 560000 square meter "Qianjiang Ecological Lobster City in China", which will become the largest crayfish e-commerce platform in the country and the largest crayfish wholesale market in the world.