Since the begging of 2016, prices of bulk freshwater products continue to go up, whose comprehensive price increase 11.9% compared year on year, among which megalobrama amblycephala, bream and crucian grow 29.9%、29.8% and 24.4% respectively. Prices keep high for shrimp products. In early April, the supply of crayfish in market is low and its price continues to jump, whose average price even reaches more than 60 yuan/kg. It continues to drop with more and more crayfish goes to market, which is kept at 45 yuan/kg level now, same as that in the same period of last year. The price of freshwater shrimp is almost same as that in the same period of last year, about 80 yuan/kg now. As for the sea water aquatic products, most of them also grow. Silver pomfret, little yellow croaker, portunid and hairtail increase 32.6%, 31.6%, 29.6% and 1.6% respectively, while white-leg shrimp drops 0.8% year on year.
It’s believed that the continuous rise of price of bulk agricultural products, like pork and vegetables, lowers people consumption demand of these kinds of product so that they turn to bulk freshwater fish products. Experts estimate that the rising trend of aquatic products will continue and keep stable for the second half of this year. With the rise of cost of fish fry, pond rent, labor and so on, the fishery benefit will keep steady and see a little growth.
