China News Service, April 24. According to Taiwan's United News Network, from April to June every year is the flying fish season in southern Taiwan. Flying fish migrate with the Kuroshio to the south coast of the Hengchun Peninsula in Pingtung. Local people live together in memory.
In recent years, salted and sun-dried "flying fish overnight" has become a popular online product, and the price has risen to 300 yuan per kilogram (NTD, the same below). State Flying Fish Season.
Manzhou Township Mayor Yu Zengchun said that dried flying fish is a shared memory of the local people in the past and is a precious cultural asset. In recent years, due to the aging of the population, in order to maintain and inherit the flying fish culture, restaurants have been invited to develop new dishes, hold flying fish season activities, and also serve The port community introduced eco-tourism and opened up a new way of tourism.
Yang Xiulan, the head of the port village of Manzhou Township, pointed out that in the early days, the fishermen did not go out to sea mainly to catch flying fish. The flying fish were spiny and not big, and their flesh was not as delicate as other fish species.
In order to prolong the consumption period, residents will cut open the abdomen of the flying fish, take out the internal organs and soak them in salt water, plum juice or wine, smoke them with slow fire, and then dry them for 4 to 6 hours.
In recent years, the sun-dried flying fish has been sold online in vacuum packaging, and netizens have been buying it due to the epidemic. Since last year, the price has remained at 300 yuan per kilogram, which is quite good.
Liu Wenwen, a fisherman from Manzhou Township, said that in the early years, during the migratory season of flying fish, there were quite a lot of flying fish fishing fleets in Hengchun and Manzhou. One group of fleets included 6 fishing boats and more than 20 fishermen. However, in the past 10 years, Taidong County announced that fishing boats over 10 tons were prohibited from fishing for flying fish within 6 nautical miles of the coast of Lanyu. In addition, the population of fishing villages was aging, and the fleet of flying fish fishing fleets had been reduced to single digits.