1033. Daqin seafood health products
With the advent of marine development fever, seafood occupies an increasingly important role in human life, and the mining equipment is becoming more and more advanced, and the technology is getting better and better.
Qin Shiou walked around the exhibition area and gained a lot of gains, and most of the things he saw were more practical, such as a new type of fishing net made of a combination of nano and fiber technology, which can be used for trawl nets and purse seine nets, which are stronger and more wear-resistant than pure fiber fishing nets, and the service life of a set of fishing nets can exceed two years.
However, there is a disadvantage to this type of net, which is that it cannot be repaired.
Repairing fishing nets is an important job in the daily life of fishermen, after a set of nets into the sea, most of them will not take long to appear large or small loopholes, which needs to be repaired and continued to use, even if Qin Shiou is so tyrant, he can't do the fishing net is broken and thrown away for a new net.
This new type of fishing net costs more than $50,000 a set, and it may pay for itself in two years, but if something goes wrong, you have to throw it away, which is a bit too wasteful.
But it can't be repaired without throwing it away, and the materials used in the new nets are too advanced for the fishermen to do it themselves.
In addition, the LSN Ocean Development Group of the United States invented another kind of fishing net, called the 'memory metal fishing net', fishermen go out to sea, the most tedious work is not to catch or divide the fish, but to clean up the net.
Fishing nets are easy to get tangled up together, so they have to be carefully combed after each use, which is a very laborious task. In particular, most of the fishermen are big-shouldered and short-tempered, and this kind of meticulous work is the most grinding.
The main body of the fishing net is a memory metal with aluminum as the main body, and it only needs to be folded after each collection. When you use it, you will throw it into the water, and after a certain period of time, the net will spread out on its own. And not tangled.
Behind the LSN Marine Development Group's booth was an LED super display with a constant stream of practical footage of the fishing nets. It looks like there is a sense of science fiction, which attracts a lot of onlookers.
Qin Shiou leaned up to look at it for a while, and said to Bird: "This kind of fishing net seems to be good, right?" ”
Bird muttered, "It really lightens our work, the nets don't get tangled, and it protects the nets to a great extent." However, in any case, the fishing nets will be damaged, what if they are broken? ”
A salesman from LSN Group overheard the two discuss. "Actually, our product is mainly aimed at North American customers, if it is in Mexico, the United States or Canada, the damage to the fishing nets can be returned to our company by express delivery and repaired by our workers," he said. ”
Qin Shiou looked at the price, one set of fishing nets is 15,000 euros, and at least four sets of fishing nets must be prepared to go to sea, two sets of direct use and two sets of spare, that is, 60,000 euros. And ordinary fishing nets only cost one-fifth of the price.
But he felt that the nets were worth more than they were price, and that distant-water fishing was more mentally torturous than physical for fishermen, because life at sea was too boring and they did not have enough time to rest. It is easy to get tired and sleepy, and doing meticulous work especially tortures patience and spirit.
With this net, fishermen such as Shaq and Bull at least don't have to stay up and patiently clean up the nets after each catch. You can take a break directly, so that there is a virtuous circle. It can increase the frequency of fishing.
Thinking about it this way, Qin Shiou signed four pairs of fishing nets. The manufacturer sent directly to his fishing grounds.
Another key product at the expo is fishing rods, fishing lines and hooks, fishing rods and fishing lines of various materials, Qin Shiou has no demand for this, probably looked at it and left.
Moving on, the equipment and technology exhibition position is over, replaced by a booth for marine health products.
Here, there is no market for conventional health products such as deep-sea fish oil, cod liver oil, sea cucumber powder, pearl powder, oyster juice and so on.
Qin Shiou didn't know much about this industry, but after a visit, she suddenly became interested, and she found that seafood health care products appeared relatively late in the category of health care products, but now they are developing very violently.
Before coming into contact with these health products, he thought that he was engaged in a fishing farm, that is, selling seafood, but after visiting the world's most advanced health care product market today, he suddenly thought that he could actually expand the breadth of the Daqin seafood brand.
In addition to selling seafood, seafood can also be used as seafood health products.
For example, kelp, kelp contains a substance called potassium alginate, which can play a good role in lowering blood pressure.
At the exhibition, many companies have made potassium alginate lozenges, which are easier to absorb than ordinary antihypertensive drugs, and can be quickly decomposed into alginate and potassium ions by gastric acid.
Alginic acid, on the other hand, can combine with excess sodium ions in the duodenum to form sodium alginate, which is then excreted from the body. As a result, the amount of sodium in the arteriole wall is reduced, the peripheral vascular resistance decreases, and the blood pressure also drops.
The price of this potassium alginate lozenge is relatively high, and it is now the mainstream blood pressure lowering health care product used by the middle class in Europe and the United States, because it is extracted from food, so it is not a drug, and compared with ordinary antihypertensive drugs, it is less harmful to the human body and more acceptable.
There is still a large amount of kelp stored in the Daqin fishing grounds, and this year it looks like kelp will be planted again, and one Daqin seafood alone can't handle so much kelp, if it can be used to develop into health care products, it will be even better for Qin Shiou.
In addition to kelp, seaweed is also an important raw material for marine health products, which is a natural health food processed by scientific methods of seaweed, which has the functions of promoting fetal and infant brain development, improving students' memory, maintaining normal visual function, protecting eyesight, improving immunity, protecting myocardium and liver, and preventing obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
Qin Shiou carefully inspected the booth of marine health products and found that in the seaweed health products industry, Japan's strength is very strong, and most related companies have the shadow of Japanese companies.
This is normal, the Japanese like to eat seaweed, have advanced processing technology, and are at the forefront of the world in the development of seaweed health products.
According to the official website of the expo, there are more than 4,000 manufacturers of seaweed health products in Japan, and there are more than 200 kinds of related products, which is more than other countries in Asia combined.
The seaweed health food at the exhibition mainly focuses on weight loss auxiliary products, tonic products, vitamin products and related beverages, such as seaweed tonic extract, kelp tablets, seaweed powder, hijiki related products, etc.
Other seafood such as oysters, clams, mussels, conch, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, jellyfish, various fish, shrimp and crabs can be used to develop health care products, and the protective effect on the human body is all-round, from hair to nails, from bones to internal organs, and so on.
At first, Qin Shiou's insight and knowledge could cope with the products he saw, but the more he looked, the narrower his knowledge and knowledge became, many things he had never seen at all, and he didn't understand the principles of health care products made. (To be continued......)