China News Service, Zhoushan, February 8 (Reporter Lin Bo) "Zhoushan has a strong Chinese New Year flavor. This year our family of four will spend the Spring Festival in Zhoushan." As the Spring Festival approaches, when everyone enters "vacation mode", "Taiwanese wife" Weng Yazhen "Busy mode" is turned on. At the dock in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, when the ship loaded with large yellow croakers docked, Weng Yazhen, who was waiting on the shore, began to lead people to sort and pack the fish, controlling the quality throughout the process.
Weng Yazhen (first from left) and her father on the fishing raft. Photo provided by interviewee
If you rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, if you rely on the sea to eat the sea, the most popular items on the Spring Festival table of Zhoushan people are all kinds of seafood. Large yellow croaker is one of the must-have seafood.
"Everyone will buy large yellow croaker before the Spring Festival, and our sales have also entered an explosive period." Weng Yazhen said.
Since the resumption of people-to-people exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, young people have crossed the shallow strait one after another, creating pairs of "cross-strait couples" and telling stories of "cross-strait love."
More than 20 years ago, from Zhoushan to Taiwan, Weng Yazhen crossed the shallow strait and married to Taiwan for love, becoming a "Taiwanese daughter-in-law."
"I have two children. The eldest is in college and the second is in high school." When she was living in Taiwan, Weng Yazhen initially worked in the accounting industry. Because she loved coffee, she quit her job and became a hand-brew specialty barista.
"Xianyi Large Yellow Fish Soup" made by Weng Yazhen. Photo provided by interviewee
"At our family's New Year's Eve dinner, we not only have Taiwanese delicacies such as Sixi meatballs and steamed date cakes, but also authentic Zhoushan seafood." Weng Yazhen told reporters that Taiwanese family members love to eat Zhoushan large yellow croaker, especially for New Year's Eve dinner. , the salty yellow croaker soup she made is the finale dish on the table.
From a large yellow croaker, Weng Yazhen also saw business opportunities.
"The aquaculture industry is not only an industry that the country strongly supports for development, but also has broad market prospects and very large demand." Weng Yazhen's hometown is Qingbang Island, Dongji Town, Putuo District, Zhoushan City. She has slept with the sound of the sea waves since she was a child. He has a natural attachment to the sea.
In 2017, with the help of her father, an old fisherman, she started farming large yellow croaker. After that, she established Zhoushan Islands New District Konglaoer Aquaculture Co., Ltd.
With the joint efforts of the family, large yellow croaker farming has begun to get on the right track.
"The consensus of our family on breeding is to start breeding from fry, and not to make fish that have passed through the water." Although breeding from fry takes more time and energy, in Weng Yazhen's view, only in this way can we raise truly high-quality large fish. Yellow croaker.
"Before, the company was mainly managed by my parents, and I flew back when I had time." Weng Yazhen said bluntly that for veteran fishermen who rely on the sea to eat, raising large yellow croaker is not difficult, but there are still deficiencies in the construction of sales channels.
So, after discussing with her family, she decided to focus her career on the mainland and focus on expanding sales channels for large yellow croaker.
"Now it is very convenient to travel from the mainland to Taiwan, and our husband and wife can see each other on the fly." Weng Yazhen said that the convenient transportation from Taiwan to Zhoushan gave them the courage to pursue their dreams, and her family in Taiwan is very supportive of her He also understands the difficulty of her entrepreneurial journey, so he often travels to the mainland to accompany her.
In the past few years when she started her business "full-time" in her hometown, Weng Yazhen has also deeply felt the changes of the island, especially the beautiful scenery everywhere on the island, showing the unique style of "garden on the sea" everywhere.
In addition to the breeding industry, Weng Yazhen also picked up her "hobby" and opened a Western-style simple meal shop and a pet-friendly cafe in Xia Xucun, Zhanmao Street Road, Putuo District.
"Mainland's entrepreneurial industries are diverse and tolerant. I'm very happy to be able to ride the waves in my hometown." As a "daughter of the sea", Weng Yazhen sees Zhoushan as having a first-class business environment, which provides Taiwanese compatriots and Taiwanese with the opportunity to start and innovate locally. Strong guarantee also laid the foundation for their development in the mainland.
"I hope the large yellow croaker we farm can 'swim' to the dining tables on both sides of the Taiwan Strait." In the new year, Weng Yazhen also plans to invite Taiwanese aquaculture experts to the mainland for exchanges and to look for cooperation opportunities. (over)