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As night falls, Wei Haibo, a farmer, is still busy at the Houtouwan Wharf in Goji Township, Shengsi County. He skillfully sliced open a thick black shell mussel, dug out the meat, and put it into his mouth. "Fresh and chewy!" Wei Haibo told reporters that this year's mussels are particularly plump and popular. In recent days, he has been able to harvest over 10000 kilograms of fresh mussels every day from his 40 acre "Yibei Field" at sea, and the purchase price has also increased compared to previous years, selling for 3.5 to 3.6 yuan per kilogram. Wei Haibo smiled and said that he expects his annual income from raising shells to exceed 400000 yuan this year.
In recent years, more and more fishermen have bid farewell to the bumpy sea life and turned to the marine aquaculture industry. Among them, the mussels that grow by filtering and feeding on microorganisms in seawater can purify water quality and protect ecology, gradually becoming the dominant species in the development of island characteristic ecological industries in Shengsi County. In spring and summer, put in mussel seedlings the size of rice grains; In autumn and winter, harvest a large and plump mature mussel. Nowadays, there are nearly 700 mussel farmers in Shengsi County, driving nearly 10000 people to work and increase their income, with an annual total output value of 730 million yuan.
The reporter saw that under the encouragement of the "Double Strong" action in Zhejiang agriculture, the Shengsi mussel industry is moving from "scattered breeding" to a path of large-scale high-quality development.
Recently, the "Future Pasture" for marine aquaculture, which has been explored and constructed by the whole county of Shengsi, has been officially put into use. Using satellite remote sensing, drones, water quality monitoring equipment and other technical means, a "cloud based industrial map" has been constructed to achieve visual, dynamic, and standardized management of people, ships, seas, and factories. At the Yibei Industry Collaborative Innovation Center in Shengsi County, the reporter saw this digital map. The densely packed red small boxes represent the breeding sites of each household, and clicking on them can display the area, longitude and latitude, etc. Mao Yusheng, Deputy Director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development Office of Goji Township, stated that due to the refinement of various aspects of the industry, product quality and economic benefits have significantly improved.
In order to achieve the goal of full mechanization of mussel farming, Shengsi actively connects with the expert team of the Equipment Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to visit and research the needs of farmers, focusing on key production links to carry out technical breakthroughs. At present, a complete set of intelligent equipment capable of automatically bagging mussels and in-situ harvesting and cleaning at sea has been developed and entered the final functional testing. "It only takes half a minute to package a string of mussel seedlings, which is six or seven times more efficient than manual operation." Wang Junbo, manager of Goji Township Bibo Breeding Service Co., Ltd., showed reporters a newly tested automatic seedling packaging machine. He said that with the popularization of mechanized equipment, the intelligent level of Shengsi mussel breeding will be qualitatively improved, greatly alleviating the "labor shortage" during the peak production season, effectively reducing labor costs, improving the survival rate of seedlings and the final harvest.