Nantong seafood can quickly reach dining tables across the country

By Wang Ying

‘Pick a few for me!’ At noon on 11th August, in a Freshippo store, swimming crabs were full of vitality in the water tanks. The staff introduced while picking and packaging fresh swimming crabs for customers, ‘the batch of Lvsi Port swimming crabs just arrived at the store early this morning.’

The staff introduced that after the catch, fresh swimming crabs arrived at the store early the next morning. It means that in 12 hours, Qidong seafood is on the dining tables of urban citizens.

Pan Zhijun, president of Qidong Fisheries Chamber of Commerce, introduced that after the fully loaded fishing boats entered Lvsi Fishing Port together, more than 60% of the fresh seafood will be sent to the Yangtze River Delta, Northeast China, East China and Fujian within 24 hours, and arrive at inland areas including Sichuan within 48 hours; the rest 40% will go to local processing plants, to be made into products such as crab sauce and crab pieces, some of them will be sold far away to Korea.