Chapter nine hundred and ninety seventh salted fish
"How is the tuna market?" Han Peacock asked.
The vice president continued: "It turns out that the countries and regions with large tuna catches in the world mainly include Japan, China's Wandao, Spain, and South Korea. Japan's tuna catch accounts for about 16%, ranking first in the world, followed by Taiwan, China.
(12%), Spain (7.2%), South Korea (5.7%), the United States (4.6%), France (4.1%).
The tuna production of these six countries and regions accounts for 50% of the total tuna production. In addition, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Seychelles and other countries also have large tuna fishing volumes.
It is worth mentioning that Wandao’s tuna production accounts for one-third of its total fishery production, and Japan and South Korea’s tuna production accounts for 30-40% of their entire ocean production.
Currently, Japan, Europe and the United States are the three main markets for tuna product consumption in the world. Japan is not only the largest tuna fishing country in the world, but also the largest tuna consumer, accounting for about 30% of the world's total tuna consumption.
Therefore, Japan imports about 350,000 tons from South Korea, Thailand, Bendao and other places every year, which is mainly consumed in the form of fresh, frozen, dried and seasoned, so Japan is not our competitor.
Europe and the United States are the other two major tuna consumer markets. Unlike Japan, they mainly consume canned tuna. The varieties include water-soaked canned yellowfin tuna, salad canned tuna, and oil-preserved tuna. This is where our products come from.
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Currently, global canned tuna consumption is about 170 million boxes, among which EU countries such as France, Italy, the United States, Spain and Germany have become the world's largest canned tuna consumer market.
In addition to domestic production, they mainly import from Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, Thailand and Turkey in Asia, and the United States is the world's largest tuna importer and canned tuna producer. Its main supplier countries are Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
and Malaysia and more than 20 countries and regions.
Our country originally focused on export trade, but in recent years, the domestic consumer market has also been developing continuously, and places such as Magic City and Yangcheng have formed a certain scale of consumption, so our company has the best sales in Magic City and Yangcheng.
Now the company's main markets are Europe, America and Japan, followed by domestic. And the focus is also on the development of the domestic market. With the growth of our country's economic level, consumption levels have also greatly improved, and cultivating loyal users of various seafood,
It has also become easier. It can be said that the market potential is the greatest."
"Is there a backlog of products?" Han Peacock asked.
"The daily processing capacity of this production line of our company is as high as 200 tons of tuna. It processes more than 6,000 tons a month. One-third of it is made into sashimi and supplied to major domestic supermarkets.
All others are produced into cans, mainly tuna in original juice, spiced tuna, tuna in oil, vegetable tuna, tomato sauce tuna, etc. The sales momentum of these products in the country is also very good, even if there are no foreign orders, they can still be digested domestically.
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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. Now there is a tendency that supply exceeds demand. It can be said that as long as the goods are good, our products will not worry about selling.
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Han Ronghua originally thought it was a small company, but now she realized that this company seemed to be not small, so she couldn't help but ask: "How much profit is there from six thousand tons of tuna?"
At this time, Li Xiaoyi replied: "I just read their financial statements before coming here. This tuna production line processes an average of two hundred tons of tuna per day. It has a processing capacity of more than 6,000 tons in a month, and the finished product exceeds 4,000 tons. Each ton
The profit of the company is more than 30,000, and the profit of 4,000 tons is about 120 million, which is neither too much nor too little. After all, there is only one production line."
"One hundred and twenty million a month? How can it be so much?" Han Ronghua said in surprise.
Li Xiaoyi said: "How much is this? These fish are caught directly from the ocean. It can be said that except for labor and machine wear and tear, everything else is profit. This is only a profit of 120 million per month. Is it a lot?
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"With a profit of over 1.4 billion a year, it can't be considered a big company?" Han Ronghua said.
Han Peacock was happy: "I'm afraid you have misunderstood. This canning production line is just a production workshop of the Ocean Fishery Company. In addition to this, this company has many more production workshops, and the products are far beyond your imagination."
What I know now are tuna, squid, swimming crab, lobster, abalone, sea cucumber, salmon and other main products. In addition to these, not to mention those deeply processed products, there are more ordinary marine fish, such as large and small yellow croakers.
, pomfret, hairtail, etc., these are also bulk commodities, and the profits cannot be underestimated."
Li Xiaoyi said: "As we have more and more fishing boats, the production of seafood is also increasing, so we can't stop for a moment to expand the market."
The following vice presidents nodded immediately, and one of them said: "We have studied this point and reached preliminary opinions. We all agree that we should open up the mainland market."
"Mainland market? This is seafood, how to transport it? Will the transportation cost be high?" Han Kongque asked.
"We have two more ways to reduce transportation costs. The first is to pickle salted fish, and the second is to store it in a centralized manner and sell it in winter. The shortcomings of this second method are obvious. Bulk commodities are concentrated in winter and naturally cannot be sold at high prices.
, so we are now developing new products, the first is deep processing, the second is dried products, and the third is pickled products."
"Let's go take a look at your pickling workshop." Han Kongque said.
A group of people entered another large workshop and watched the workers inside through the glass. 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
Everyone else exclaimed in amazement.
There are many kinds of salted fish, some are pickled from large fish, and some are pickled from small fish. In the past, salted fish in China was a food eaten by poor people. However, now the price of some famous salted fish is not cheap.
Salted fish is generally pickled with hairtail, herring, silver carp, and eel. Anchovy and trout can also be used. There are two types of processed salted fish: "meixiang" and "solid meat".
When making plum-flavored salted fish, the fresh fish must be fermented for one or two days. After its nutrients have changed, it is salted for seven or eight days. After drying, it produces a unique aroma. The meat is soft and salty with fragrance; while the meat is solid.
Salted fish does not need to be fermented. It is directly salted and dried with fresh fish. Its meat is firm, flaked, salty and fresh.
The fresh fish that Han Peacock and the others saw for drying mainly included red fish, Spanish mackerel, sea pheasant, goldenrod, white catfish, red shirt, hairtail, whitebait, etc.
Salted fish made from different kinds of fresh fish have different flavors and textures, and "meixiang" and "solid meat" made from the same kind of fresh fish also have different flavors and textures.
Han Kongque and the others took it seriously, and the company staff also explained it clearly: "Since everyone knows the harm of salted fish, the salted fish we pickle has been treated with biological methods to reduce the harm of salted fish to the human body.
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The main hazard to the human body is nitrite. Nitrite can inhibit the growth of Clostridium botulinum and other types of bacteria, has good color rendering and antioxidant effects, and can improve the flavor of pickled foods.
However, nitrite can react with protein decomposition products and amines in pickled products to form nitrosamines, which are strong carcinogens. The presence of nitrite in pickled foods is a major potential hazard.
Biological methods mainly use microorganisms to reduce the pH value in pickled products, produce microorganisms that degrade nitrite with nitrite reductase, or directly use nitrite reductase to reduce the nitrite content in pickled products.
Now we can use Lactobacillus plantarum, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus acidilactici and Lactobacillus brevis freeze-dried bacterial powder to make a direct-injection starter culture with a nitrite degradation rate of 98%. This technology can be used for
Industrial production.
There are also studies on isolating and purifying nitrite reductase from Bacillus megaterium. The optimal temperature of the enzyme reaction is 40C, the optimal pH is 6.5, and the thermal stability is good. After 4 hours of incubation at 80C, there is still 70% to 80% of the enzyme.
Vitality, a complex enzyme preparation composed of this enzyme and specific coenzymes is added during the curing process of meat, so that the residual amount of nitrite can be reduced by more than 70% compared to the original without changing the cooking process conditions. "
"This kind of big fish is pretty good. Bring some with you when you leave." Han Peacock pointed at the huge salted fish that was over fifty centimeters tall.
"This is marinated with Spanish mackerel. It has less spines and thicker meat, and it tastes very good." Li Xiaoyi said.
"Have you ever eaten this?" Qin Mingyue asked curiously.
Li Xiaoyi said with a smile: "We sell it in the market in our hometown. Those who sell salted fish almost have one of these big salted fish. They sell it in pieces. They can cut as much as you want. But
A few are not cheap, they cost twenty or thirty yuan per catty."
"The price of fresh Spanish mackerel is only three or four yuan, right?" Han Kongque asked.
Li Xiaoyi said: "The Spanish mackerel in the market costs ten yuan and three pounds, but the price of this kind of salted fish is very expensive. Otherwise, why would we spend manpower, material and time to pickle the fresh fish into salted fish?"
"You did a good job. It seems that your dividends were not in vain." Han Kongque said with a smile.
Li Xiaoyi smiled and said: "Let's go, I've wasted a lot of time here. I'll treat you to dinner when I get home."
"Do you still need me when I get home?" Han Peacock said with a smile.
Li Xiaoyi also smiled: "Since the time for your return has not been set, there is no food prepared at home, but I have brought a lot of ready-made delicacies, so even if I return home, I can only treat you."
"Then let's go home and taste the delicious food you brought." Han Peacock said with a smile. (To be continued...)