By Tang Jiamei

Four and a half months’ ocean seasonal fishing ban was ended. At 12:00 noon of 16th September, there was a hive of activity in the various major ports including Qidong Lvsi Port and Haimen Dongzao Port. Up to 600 sail-driven net and fixed net fishing boats of Nantong set off from the various fishing ports, sailing majestically to the sea.

On 18th September, the fishermen returned with the first net of ‘seafood’ of the autumn. Two of Jiang Junjie’s fishing boats returned on that day, which brought back 6000 boxes of small hairtail and close to one hundred boxes of red shrimp. It was a rich harvest. Jiang Junjie introduced that this year due to the typhoon weather, the fishing boats for crabs would enter the port a few days later, and the harvest would be reduced relatively. It is expected that big pomfret, big hairtail, etc. will be on the market in large quantities in the end of September.

After the first batch of fishery products was unloaded, the fishermen would set out to the sea at once. It is expected that harvest peak of Lvsi Fishing Port will be in November.