Chapter 440: Shrimp Fishing Profits
Little Princess.
An open fire of firewood was lit in a small basin in the kitchen, and the fruit wood that Malena had chopped with her axe came into play.
Tang Hai slowly skewered chicken legs, chicken wings, beef, and mutton on the iron hammer, and a sailor brought hot coffee to the Inuit father and son who were shivering at the table.
The two of them were shocked for a while when they saw Tang Hai's might, and then they thought that their ship was crushed into the sea, and they were sad for a while, and their faces were very ugly.
Malena was still teasing the narwhal outside, feeding the narwhal fish and having fun.
Tang Hai also stuffed her with a bottle of 'Big and Small Pets Are Druid Tang Secret Physiognomy Pet Elixir'...... Let her drip such a thing into the mouth of a live fish, and then throw the live fish to the big fish, so that the big fish loves to eat the most.
Merlin and Jennifer have always been by Tang Hai's side, probably wanting to hear the story of the father and son. It's just that every time Tang Hai exerts too much force, it seems that he has exhausted the blood sugar in his body, and he will instantly turn into a big stomach, and if he doesn't eat a dozen catties of things, Tang Hai will never speak, so he can only wait......
Seeing that Tang Hai's movements were too slow, the two women couldn't hold back a little and started to help together.
"Ah...... opened her mouth ...... "What Jennifer hates the most is Tang Hai's loss of the chain at this critical moment, and a beef skewer stretches out to Tang Hai's mouth."
Tang Hai ate it all in one bite.
"Ah...... Open your mouth and be careful ...... "This time it's Merlin, who deserves to be a sister, and she can take care of people."
The father and son saw that there were beauties on Tang Hai's left and right waiting to eat, and they forgot their sadness for a while, especially Xiao Sao Nian. looked at it with envy.
"Ah...... opened his mouth ...... "Hadley was unhappy for a long time, and he also came over to help Tang Hai barbecue." Hadley's Chinese came from opposite Tang Hai, and he was just about to open his mouth to bite. The movement suddenly stopped.
A fragrant red sausage grilled!
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"Hadley, I'll eat you if you change things. Marlena, when did you come in, put the phone down and we're still good friends. ”
Everyone had a full stomach and a hot cup of coffee.
The middle-aged man's name is Prader, and his son's name is Mike, both of which are very common names, and there are many duplicate names in the United States, such as Jennifer, which has more than 5 million people. Tang Hai has become accustomed to this common name......
The princess's fleet was still heading towards Barrow City, and the father and son were also going there, and after thanking him for coming back to his senses, Prad told Tang Hai about the shipwreck.
Prad needed a sum of money, a lot of money.
There are a total of eight Inuit villages in the North Slope area, which still retain a very primitive way of life, except that they have electricity and schools.
Including marriage, these people are only among the Inuit, and fortunately their community here exceeds 10,000 people. Otherwise......
Six out of eight villages support the development of the oil industry, and not only do they receive a lot of subsidies, but they also pay money every month, and that's it. even provided jobs, Tang Hai listened to him carefully, and thought that this was a bit like a subsidy for the demolition of urban villages. Tang Hai really wanted to know how much the subsidy would be. But I'm too embarrassed to ask.
Prad is from the village of Neuksot, Tang Hai thought about it carefully. Isn't this the same person who the former village chief feared that the oil industry would disturb the bowhead whale, and then resolutely voted against it? It is estimated that the successor also voted against.
Look at how good Prad is with those narwhals. I think he is the kind of person who does not please both sides, because of the village can not join the oil industry to work, it is estimated that he does not support whaling, here only by shrimp fishing can make a lot of money, but after all, it is alone......
Arctic shrimp is almost the most expensive cold-water shrimp species, and cold-water shrimp have always been more expensive than warm-water shrimp.
Shrimp and the like, the price is also what Tang Hai thinks.
In July 2007, the then president of the United States was still Bush, and Bush invited Putin to his father's birthday banquet and had a 'Hongmen banquet' at the ancestral house by the sea.
That meal was full of lobster, so Bush's self-proclaimed 'family-style summit' was jokingly called the 'lobster summit' by the media.
At that time, Maine lobster in the market cost $8 a pound, which was the price of a restaurant, which was the price of cabbage.
Now it is a little more expensive, depending on whether it is a peak season or not, the price of water is 6 to 8 US dollars per kilogram, and it is 12 to 20 US dollars on the market.
In the past, Chinese lobsters were imported from Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Caribbean, but after finding that Maine lobsters were cheaper, they changed places, although the taste of Maine shrimp was far worse than that of Auston, but the price was much cheaper.
In 2009, the United States exported lobsters to China at $2.1 million, and in 2014 it was $90.5 million.
In 2012, the final production of lobster in Maine was 110 million kilograms, or 1.1 million tons, accounting for 80% of the total lobster production in the United States. It may seem like a lot, but it's actually only 3 kilograms per person. Some information will record that the annual output of Maine lobster in Canada and the United States is 70,000 tons, accounting for 75% of North America, if you think about it, you will know that this is wrong, the per capita output of 0.2 kilograms, it will definitely not be exported if it is so low, and 40,000 tons of cold-water shrimp will definitely not be taken seriously. It is estimated that the export volume of the year is written as the output volume.
In recent years, most of them have been exported to China, which has exacerbated the shortage of lobsters in the United States.
This is to rather not feed their own country, but also try to make money, don't look at this era, even the United States, who can make money and not do this?
Even the Associated Press wrote a special article for publicity: American lobsters came to Red China, enriching the festival tables of the locals and bringing auspicious meanings, which also means that the lives of Chinese people are getting better and better. After cooking, the red lobster is served on the table, which adds to the festive atmosphere of the Chinese people.
The reason why Maine lobster produces more is because this thing grows very fast, it can grow 1 pound in 6 years, and the price is very cheap in the place of origin, and it is sold expensive in many places because of the price increase of dealers, basically each dealer has to increase the price by 50%, and the average person has to buy at least 4 dealers.
Arctic sweet shrimp and Maine lobster are two extremes, cold-water shrimp do not produce for 4 to 6 years, and the size is only finger long, about 10 grams in weight, and there are only fifty or sixty large ones. You must know that Maine lobsters can generally have a pound in 6 years, and you can even find 50-year-old shrimp weighing more than 20 kilograms.
In addition, cold-water shrimp is a deep-sea product in extremely cold areas, which is considered to be a 'special product of non-polluted seas', and the price can be several times more expensive......
If you can make money, there are many people who can do it, and some popular areas have long been occupied, and the Inuit don't look backward, they also have a joint Arctic shrimp processing company.
Prad is also a man who keeps up with the times, and actually knows how to read the news and judge ocean currents......
The El Niño phenomenon has turned many previously frozen areas into fishing areas, and others dare not go to that kind of place, but he dares to go! I made a lot of money in a few times!
This time, he took his son with him, wanting him to learn the life of a shrimp fisherman in advance.
"You almost killed your son! Did you know that he was only 14 years old! You actually took a 14-year-old child to such a dangerous place to catch shrimp? Do you want to save labor so much? ”
Tang Hai was a little angry after hearing this, and directly pointed at Prader's head and scolded.
Malena, who is also 14 years old, raised her head and looked at Tang Hai.
"I'm just ......"
"Needless to say, I'll take you to Point Barrow, and when you get there, you can get off the boat."
…… (To be continued......)