For nearly a month now, the scallop beach area of Chi Cong commune - Tuy Phong district, known as the capital of scallops, has been bustling and busy, signaling that this year's scallop season has arrived, right on the days leading up to Lunar New Year 2024.
Last weekend, the Chi Cong scallop wharf was more bustling than ever, with the boat owners calling each other, many young men taking turns carrying each bag of scallops to the wharf, the sound of traders weighing and calculating the price, the sound of women competing for space to pry open the scallops on the spot... At the time the boats reached the shore, countless scallops were packed, the atmosphere was extremely bustling. Hundreds of fishermen were hurriedly putting the bags of scallops on baskets and then going to shore to deliver them to the waiting traders. According to the boat owners, for nearly a month, the sea trips have yielded a large output of scallops. Every day, dozens of tons of scallops are landed, with prices higher than every year, so the scallop divers are excited, hoping for a full Tet this year.
If last year, each boat only harvested a few quintals of clams per day, this year, that number increased to several tons, helping fishermen earn millions of dong per day. Mr. Nguyen Van Nhi - a sea worker in the commune shared: "This year, fan-shaped scallops appear a lot, each of the divers can catch more than 1 quintal per day. This year's price is also higher than every year, small scallops cost 8,000 - 10,000 VND/kg, large scallops cost 12,000 - 14,000 VND/kg. Every day, fishermen also earn more than 1 million VND". About a week ago, not only Chi Cong scallop wharf, but also most other coastal areas such as Phan Ri Cua, Phuoc The, Vinh Hao ... all caught a large amount of scallops. According to local people, this year the amount of scallops is the largest in years and mainly sponge scallops and flying scallops. This type of scallop has large flesh and delicious meat, so scallop flesh sells very well. The amount of scallops arriving at the port is large, so traders will buy them and hire women in the area to pry open the scallops and sell them to big cities.
Besides squid, dried fish... Tuy Phong scallop meat is considered a typical product that many people are ordering to freeze to prepare cooling dishes such as scallop porridge, stir-fried bean sprouts, scallop rolls... Ms. Le Thi Be Trinh - a person with many years of experience in buying and selling scallop meat in Phan Ri Cua added that there are currently 2 types of scallop meat and diving scallop, which are very difficult for buyers to distinguish. When scraped, the scallop meat is small, has an ivory-yellow color, the meat is mushy and not as fresh as diving scallop. Therefore, scraped scallop meat is also cheaper than diving scallop meat, if consumers do not know, it is easy to buy the wrong one. On average, more than 10 kg of whole shelled scallops will be scraped to get 1 kg of scallop meat, sold on the spot for about 110,000 VND/kg. After many times of buying and selling through traders, when it reaches consumers in Binh Duong, City. Ho Chi Minh... price of 1 kg of finished product is about 130,000 - 140,000 VND.
In recent days, many customers in Ho Chi Minh City have ordered large quantities of scallops, so the scallops after being prying are not enough to supply many places. The abundant scallop output has contributed to creating jobs for many coastal women, as well as adding an interesting seafood dish to the Tet holiday meals of many families. This is a typical dish of the coastal region of Binh Thuan, so most restaurants and seafood shops in the province have scallops to serve diners. This Tet, when traveling to Tuy Phong, don't forget to enjoy grilled scallops on a charcoal stove, because this is the season of the biggest and fattest scallops of the year.
According to many fishermen here, this year scallops appear a lot in December when the north wind blows, usually in previous years, during the south wind season from June to August of the lunar calendar or at the end of January, there are many of these types of scallops. The fact that the season is good and the price is good makes many fishermen in coastal areas excited as Tet is approaching.
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