"What about the tuna market?" Han Peacock asked.

The vice president continued: "It turns out that the countries and regions with the largest tuna catches in the world are mainly Japan, China's bend island, Spain, and South Korea, with Japan's tuna catch accounting for about 16%, ranking first in the world, followed by China's Taiwan (12%), Spain (7.2%), South Korea (5.7%), the United States (4.6%), and France (4.1%).

These six countries and regions account for 50 percent of total tuna production, with Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Seychelles and other countries also having larger tuna catches.

It is worth mentioning that the tuna production of Wandao accounts for one-third of its total fishery production, and the tuna production of Japan and South Korea accounts for 30-40% of its total pelagic production.

At present, Japan, Europe and the United States are the three main markets for the consumption of tuna products in the world, and Japan is not only the world's largest tuna fishing country, but also the largest tuna consumer, accounting for about 30% of the total tuna consumption in the entire world.

Therefore, Japan imports about 350,000 tons from South Korea, Thailand and Wandao every year, mainly in the form of fresh, frozen, dried and seasoned products, so Japan is not our competitor.

Europe and the United States are the other two main markets for tuna, and unlike Japan, they mainly consume canned tuna, including canned yellowfin tuna, canned salad tuna, and canned tuna in oil, which is the way out for our products.

At present, about 170 million boxes of canned tuna are consumed globally, including in EU countries such as France, Italy, the United States, Spain and Germany. It has become the world's largest consumer market for canned tuna.

In addition to domestic production, they mainly import from countries such as Côte d'Ivoire in Africa, Thailand and Turkey in Asia, while the United States is the world's largest importer of tuna and canned tuna, and its main suppliers are more than 20 countries and regions such as Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.

China was originally based on export trade, but in recent years, the domestic consumer market is also developing, and a certain scale of consumption has been formed in Modu, Yangcheng and other places, so our company's sales in Modu and Yangcheng are the best.

At present, the company's main markets are Europe, America and Japan, followed by China. And the focus is also on the development of the domestic market. With the growth of China's economic level, the consumption level has also been greatly improved, and it has become easier to cultivate loyal users of various seafood. It can be said that the market potential is the greatest. ”

"Is there a backlog of products?" Han Peacock asked.

"This line of our company has a daily processing capacity of up to 200 tons of tuna. More than 6,000 tons are processed in a month. A third of it is made into sashimi to supply the country's major supermarkets.

All the others are produced into canned food, mainly raw tuna, spiced tuna, tuna soaked in oil, vegetable tuna, tuna in tomato sauce, etc. The sales momentum of these products in China is also very good, even if there are no foreign orders, they can be digested in China.

However, the company is now in a period of rapid growth, so in order to increase production in the future, our development department is looking for partners every day, and now there is a trend of short supply, so it can be said that as long as the things are good, our products will not be sold. ”

Han Ronghua originally thought it was a small company, but now she knew that this company didn't seem to be small, so she couldn't help asking: "How much is the profit of 6,000 tons of tuna?" ”

At this time, Li Xiaoyi replied: "I just looked at their financial statements before I came, this tuna production line has an average daily processing capacity of 200 tons of tuna, a month is more than 6,000 tons of processing capacity, more than 4,000 tons of finished products, more than 30,000 tons of profit per ton, and 4,000 tons of profit is about 120 million, not too much, not too little, after all, there is only one production line." ”

"120 million a month? How can there be so many? Han Ronghua said in surprise.

Li Xiaoyi said: "Is this still called much? These fish are caught directly from the ocean, and it can be said that in addition to manual and mechanical wear, everything else is profit, which is only 120 million profits per month, is it more? ”

"With a profit of more than 1.4 billion a year, can't it be considered a large company?" Han Ronghua said.

Han Peacock was happy: "I'm afraid you misunderstood, this canned food production line is just a production workshop of the ocean fishing company, in addition to this, there are many production workshops in this company, and the products are far beyond your imagination."

Now I know that tuna, squid, pike crab, lobster, abalone, sea cucumber, salmon and other main products, in addition to these, those deep-processed products are not to mention, but there are more ordinary marine fish, such as large and small yellow croaker, pomfret, hairtail fish, etc., these are also bulk commodities, and profits should not be underestimated. ”

Li Xiaoyi said: "With more and more fishing boats, the output of seafood is also increasing, so we can't stop exploring the market for a moment." ”

The next few vice presidents immediately nodded, and one of the vice presidents said: "We have studied this point, and reached a preliminary opinion, and we agreed that we should open up the mainland market." ”

"The mainland market? This is seafood, how to transport it? Will the shipping costs be high? Han Peacock asked.

"We have two more ways to reduce transportation costs, the first is to marinate salted fish, the second is centralized storage, winter sales, the shortcomings of this second method are obvious, bulk commodities are concentrated in winter sales, naturally can not be sold at a price, so we are now developing new products, the first is deep processing, the second is dry products, and the third is pickled products."

"Let's take a look at your pickling shop." Han Peacock said.

A group of people entered another large workshop, through the glass, watching the workers inside work, in fact, what they saw were all large fish that had been processed, looking at the big fish, hanging on the production line, Han Peacock and others were all amazed.

There are many types of salted fish, some of which are marinated in large fish, and some are marinated in small fish. In the past, salted fish in China was a food for poor people. However, some of the most expensive salted fish are not cheap nowadays.

Salted fish, generally with hairtail, herring, silver carp, eel pickled, with anchovies, trout can also be used, processed salted fish has "plum fragrance" and "real meat" two kinds.

When making zuò with plum fragrant salted fish, the fresh fish must be fermented for one or two days, and then salted for seven or eight days after its nutrients change, and a peculiar fragrance is produced after drying, and its meat is soft and salty with fragrance; The real meat salted fish does not need to be fermented, and is directly marinated and dried with fresh fish, and its meat is firm, sliced, salty and fresh.

Han peacocks saw that the fresh fish used to dry mainly included red fish, mackerel, submarine chicken, yellow flower tube, cao white fish, red shirt fish, hairtail fish, whitebait and so on.

The flavor and texture of salted fish made from different types of fresh fish are different, and the flavor and texture of "plum fragrance" and "real meat" made from the same kind of fresh fish are also different.

Han Peacock looked at them carefully, and the company's staff explained clearly: "Since everyone knows the danger of salted fish, the salted fish we pickle has been treated by biological methods, which can minimize the danger of salted fish to the human body."

Nitrite can inhibit the growth of Clostridium botulinum and other types of spoilage bacteria, has good coloring and antioxidant effect, and can improve the flavor of pickled food.

However, nitrite can react with protein decomposition products and amines in pickled products to form nitrosamines, nitrosamines are a strong carcinogen, and the presence of nitrite in pickled foods is the main potential danger.

Biological methods are mainly microorganisms that use microorganisms to reduce the pH value in pickled products, produce nitrite reductase to degrade nitrite, or directly use nitrite reductase to reduce nitrite content in pickled products.

Now we can use Lactobacillus plantarum, Leucostoc enteromyces, Pediococcus lactis and Lactobacillus breve freeze-dried bacteria powder to make a direct starter with a degradation rate of 98% nitrite, which can be used for industrial production.

There are also studies on the isolation and purification of nitrite reductase from Bacillus megaterium, the optimal temperature of the enzyme reaction is 40 °C, the optimal pH is 6.5, the thermal stability is good, there is still 70% ~ 80% of the enzyme activity after 4 hours of incubation at 80 °C, the enzyme and the specific coenzyme composition of the composite enzyme preparation, added in the curing process of meat, without changing the processing technology of cooking, so that the nitrite residue is reduced by more than 70% than the original. ”

"This big fish is good, bring some with us when we go." Han Peacock pointed to the big salted fish that was more than fifty centimeters long.

"It's marinated with mackerel, and it tastes great because it has fewer spines and thick meat." Li Xiaoyi said.

"Have you eaten this?" Qin Mingyue asked curiously.

Li Xiaoyi said with a smile: "There are those sold in the market in our hometown, and those who sell salted fish almost all have a big salted fish of this kind, they sell them at zero, and they will cut as much as you want, but a few are not cheap, they cost twenty or thirty yuan per catty." ”

"The price of this kind of fresh fish is only three or four yuan, right?" Han Peacock asked.

Li Xiaoyi said: "The mackerel in the market is ten yuan and three catties, but the price of this salted fish is expensive, otherwise why do we spend manpower, material resources and time to marinate the fresh fish in the city?" ”

"Well done, it seems that your dividends are not in vain." Han Peacock said with a smile.

Li Xiaoyi smiled and said, "Let's go, I've lost a lot of time here, I'll invite you to dinner when I go home." ”

"When I get home, I still need you to invite you?" Han Peacock said with a smile.

Li Xiaoyi also smiled: "Since the time for your return has not been set, there is no meal prepared at home, and I have brought a lot of ready-made delicacies, so even if you go home, you can only have me as a treat." ”

"Then let's go home and taste the delicious food you brought." Han Peacock said with a smile. (To be continued......)