It’s the season for eating crayfish again. Garlic, spicy, thirteen-spice...the top-notch crayfish in summer are dressed in various "coats" and become people's "table guests". Recently, as the volume of crayfish on the market has increased significantly, the price has almost halved!

After visiting a number of aquatic products wholesale markets, the reporter learned that the price of small shrimps has "dived" from nearly 20 yuan/jin to about 10 yuan/jin, and that of medium-sized shrimps has dropped from more than 20 to 30 yuan/jin to 16 yuan/jin. You can also buy it for 14 yuan/jin. Boss Wang of a seafood and aquatic products store in Chengdu Haijixing Market said: "The price now is much cheaper than before."

According to a report from CCTV on May 14, in recent days, in one of the crayfish producing areas, In Hubei Province, local citizens have discovered that the price of crayfish on the market is becoming more and more affordable: small-sized crayfish are less than 10 yuan per catty, and other sizes have also dropped significantly. Crayfish wholesaler in Hanchuan, Xiaogan, Hubei: Now it has dropped by 3 to 5 yuan per catty. Now Xiaoqing is 8 to 9 yuan per catty, Zhongqing is 11 to 12 yuan per catty, and Daqing is 17 to 18 yuan per catty.

Crayfish are What's so cheap? On the one hand, after the May Day holiday, the demand was relatively reduced, which affected the price of crayfish; on the other hand, the increase in crayfish production will also drive up the price trend. In early May, rice field shrimps gradually enter the maturity stage. In order not to affect the subsequent rice planting, some farmers will increase the amount of crayfish they catch.