In Minamiawaji City, Hyogo Prefecture, the season of "Tetchiri Nabe", which is a representative dish of winter in Kansai, has reached the peak of shipping of farmed tiger puffer fish.
At Fukura Port in Minamiawaji City, we are focusing on culturing tiger puffer fish, and by growing it for three years, which is one year longer than usual, around the Naruto Strait where the water temperature is low and the tide is fast, it grows larger and has a stronger taste. It is a feature that it becomes.
Early in the morning, a fisherman boarded a boat and headed offshore about 2 km away from the harbor, pulling up tiger puffer fish, which weighed about 1.5 kg from aquaculture cages and grew to a length of about 30 cm, one by one with a net. ..
Then, I took it back to the processing plant, sliced it for sashimi, cut it into large pieces for pots, and packed it in boxes for shipping one after another.
According to the Fukura Fisheries Cooperative, due to the decrease in guests due to the impact of the new corona, sales to local hotels, which account for 40% of the total, were only about 30% last year.
This year, the Hyogo Prefecture version of the "Go To Travel" campaign was implemented from October, and the number of guest reservations has increased and recovered, and sales are expected to be on par with the average year.
Wakao Maeda, the union leader of the Fukura Fisheries Cooperative, said, "This year I have grown into a cheerful blowfish. I want you to eat blowfish and feel" fortune "."
Shipments of tiger puffer will continue until March next year to local hotels as well as markets in Keihanshin.