As the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced the “preliminary opinion” of experts in Nanjing on September 7, the crawfish incident that lasted for several days will no longer be heated. The person in charge of the department of health and medicine supervision in Nanjing said that the relationship between eating lobster and rhabdomyolysis has not yet been identified.

However, more than half a month passed, and the subsequent impact of the "lobster gate" is still there.

September 22, Mid-Autumn Festival. The reporter saw at a famous crayfish shop at the entrance of Nanjing Normal University that the owner is packing crayfish for a customer. Referring to the eye down, he waved his hand and said, "You have seen it. Nobody eats it. Don't interview." “If this is still the case next year, the crayfish restaurant can only be changed into a farmhouse dish.” He is also disappointed by the many farmers in northern Jiangsu who are experiencing unprecedented market shocks and are looking forward to an early end to crayfish disease. Bring the nightmare.

Volume price fell to the lowest level in history

On the evening of the 20th, the night shrouded the aquatic market in the Huimin Bridge in Nanjing, and there was a bit of light in the temporary huts of the smashed fishery shops. Li Chengbin, a business owner of lobster, told reporters that since the implementation of the lobster registration system at the end of August, foreign vehicles that shipped shrimp at night have almost disappeared. "Now the crawfish trade is bleak. Everyone is playing cards for entertainment. Everyone has a big loss. The number of stores has decreased from the past 100 to the past ten."

Another street vendor said, “If it was last year, this time was the peak season for crayfish consumption. I could sell 50 or 60 kilograms a day here. And now, people who buy crayfish are much less, and sometimes there’s no one day. ask."

The impact of the crayfish incident was too great. The person in charge of the Nanjing Aquatic Wholesale Market told reporters that in the same period of last year, the wholesale market was able to get at least 5,000 kilograms of crayfish a day, but now, there are fewer customers, and even the restaurants that “catch” crayfish every day are not in stock. Business owners selling crayfish have already sold other aquatic products.

According to Xia Aijun, director of the Provincial Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, between June and July of this year, the daily wholesale volume of crayfish in Nanjing is between 30 and 35 tons, and after August 20, it dropped to below 20 tons and fell to September 2. The lowest 9 tons in history. "Not only has the volume of transactions dropped, but the prices have also plummeted," Xia Aijun said. "Crayfish of 50 to 75 grams are 45 yuan and 1 pound before August 22. After 22 days, they fell to 30 yuan and 1 pound. Now they have fallen. It's less than $20."

Star Lake Hotel, which is famous for its “Red Pei Lobster,” is also seriously trapped in the “lobster gate”. According to statistics, the daily sales of crayfish in the Star Lake Hotel were about 1,000 kilograms, but now it is only 100 kilograms and the lowest is only 22 kilograms. Yu Xuerong, secretary general of the Jiangsu Provincial Food and Beverage Association, said that in some places in Yangzhou and Huai'an, many restaurants do not see crayfish, and restaurants have introduced Macrobrachium rosenbergii. “Bosses estimate that lobster will wait until next year to have a show.”

A large number of farmers are struggling to support

“Lobster Gate” has a greater impact on the upstream of the lobster industry chain, and many farmers are crying. The owner of a lobster farm on the outskirts of Yancheng said that it will raise 250 acres of lobsters this year. In August, 350 kg of lobster will be sold every day at a price of 20 yuan per kilogram. However, after the “lobster door” purchases drastically decreased, the price per kilogram was sometimes less than 10 yuan, which was not enough to raise the cost. Now, the daily light feed costs 1600 yuan, which makes it difficult to operate.

In March, the season for prawn seedlings was set. In the past, lobster farmers had begun to book shrimp seedlings. However, bookings for shrimp seedlings throughout northern Jiangsu have been drastically reduced this year, and many farmers are waiting to see it. Some farmers told reporters that they should not continue to raise lobsters next year.

Cockroach is the main export area of ​​crayfish in China and has a breeding base of 200,000 mu. It provides 80% of the province's output with less than 20% of the aquaculture area. After the “lobster gate” broke out, the price of the brand lobster had dropped by 40%, and the amount of goods sold by business households to important sales markets such as Shanghai was reduced by more than 50%. There are some business households in the wholesale market in Shexian County that only dare to receive local supplies, and a large number of overseas lobsters are branded outside the door. Farmers are actually very innocent. At the large-scale lobster breeding base along the lakeside of Hongze Lake, the reporter examined the water quality. Basically, the regular farms changed the water every day, and changing water once required 4 to 8 hours. Some media reports stated that farmers would splash drugs into the water to induce crawfish to float. The reporter did not see such a scenario. A breeding boss who had worked as a teacher said that there is no need to do that, and once the accident happens, the trust of wholesale customers will be lost.