Rich seafood products for Tet

(Baonghean.vn) - Near Tet, seafood processing villages along the coast of Nghe An are bustling with buyers and sellers with many attractive sources of goods.

The traditional fish sauce production villages in Hoang Mai town are really bustling before Tet with bottled products, clearly printed on the packaging with information, production facility, address, phone number, type of fish sauce, content, ingredients, production date, expiry date... The price of fish sauce ranges from 30 - 100 thousand VND/liter.

Traditional fish sauce is ready to serve the Lunar New Year market.

About 2 months before Tet, fish sauce that has been fermented for a full year is stored in large barrels by craft villages. Every step is strictly carried out according to food safety and hygiene procedures. At this time, facilities package and transport goods for customers to buy and ship to all regions in the province and other provinces in the country. There are even customers from far away in Hanoi, Saigon... who call to place orders.

Phu Loi fish sauce processing village, Quynh Di ward, Hoang Mai town annually supplies the market with over 2 million liters of fish sauce, 830 tons of fermented fish, 270 tons of shrimp paste, 650 tons of steamed and dried fish, 7 tons of dried fish, and sea urchin. Currently, there are 24 large establishments of the craft village such as Cuong Ngan, Cuc Dong, Xan Tho, Thanh Quyen, Son Ly, Hung Lam... that have registered and labeled their products, bringing the Phu Loi fish sauce brand to all parts of the country.

Ms. Thao - owner of the seafood business in Phuong Can craft village introduces to customers the unique product "squid caught" of Hoang Mai fishermen.

Along with fish sauce, shrimp paste, and sour shrimp paste products, frozen facilities and dried goods in the area are also busy preparing dozens of tons of Tet goods. Famous products in Hoang Mai include: grilled mackerel, sun-dried mackerel, dried squid, sun-dried squid, yellowstripe scad, redstripe scad, shrimp, dried anchovies, dried mussels, etc. These are all products with very high consumption during Tet, 4 or 5 times higher than normal days.

Ms. Ho Thi Thao, a seafood business in Phuong Can village, Quynh Phuong ward, said: "Compared to normal prices, seafood products for Tet have increased slightly by 10-15%. Currently, the price of grade 1 yellowstripe scad is 150,000 VND/kg, dried shrimp is 80,000 VND/kg, anchovy is 300,000 VND/kg, grilled mackerel is 220,000 VND/kg, sun-dried mackerel is 200,000 VND/kg, squid, depending on the type, fluctuates from 400,000 to 1,100,000 VND/kg. Large seafood businesses like ours have invested in frozen warehouses with a capacity of dozens of tons, so seafood products are always guaranteed to be fresh and delicious."

Grade 1 peeled shrimp sells for over 1 million VND/kg.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Linh, a customer in Con Cuong town, is choosing many seafood products and said: “I am a regular customer of seafood products processed in craft villages of Hoang Mai town such as fish sauce, shrimp paste, fish, squid, etc. During holidays and Tet, many people ask to buy them for their own use and as gifts for relatives and friends. In general, the products are always fresh and delicious, the appearance is also eye-catching, there are many types, convenient for me to choose.”

Many processed seafood products have been carefully packaged.

In recent years, seafood processing activities in Hoang Mai town have developed strongly. Facilities have boldly invested in cold storage systems and machinery to produce quality products to supply the market.

In 2016 alone, 13,500 tons of various types of seafood were produced, including dried seafood, grilled fish, frozen fish, 5.2 million liters of fish sauce, dozens of tons of shrimp, a large amount of fresh seafood was exported to the Lao and Chinese markets... contributing hundreds of billions of VND to the total production value of the locality, helping to encourage fishermen to expand their seafood exploitation.

Nguyen Van