Portunus Huanghua

Portunus Huanghua is a specialty of Huanghua City, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. Portunus trituberculatus is the most important seafood along the coast of Huanghua, with the peak season from March to May and September to October, and the output of Liaodong Peninsula in Bohai Bay is more from April to May. Huanghua belongs to Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, with Bohai Sea in the east. Huanghua has a long history, and Liu County was the first place in Qin Dynasty. In 1943, Xinhai County and Qingcheng County merged into Xinqing County. In 1945, the Shandong Military Region was renamed Huanghua County to commemorate the former deputy commander of the Jilubian Military Region who died in 1943, and the anti-Japanese British martyr. In 1989, it withdrew from the county and set up a city. Huanghua has a coastline of 65.8 kilometers and is rich in products. Since ancient times, it has been known as "the advantage of fishing and salt dominates the world". The annual output of aquatic products accounts for 45% of the total output of aquatic products in Hebei Province, especially prawns, swimming crabs and silverfish in Bohai Sea. Portunus trituberculatus is the largest crab in China. Good at swimming, but also digging sediment, often lurking at the bottom of the sea or near the estuary, fierce and aggressive, fertile and fast-growing. At the end of March, the crabs swam to the shallow water to lay eggs, and the largest individual of egg-bearing crabs reached 750 grams. The spawning peak period was in the middle and late April, and it usually took three years from the first juvenile crab stage to the mature stage. Female crabs account for more than 80% in the inshore spawning grounds, but there are more male crabs in the open sea, and the main fishing season is in April; According to the old fishermen, the temperature during the wintering period or the water temperature in the wintering field has a great influence on the catch of Portunus. Before and after Grain Rain, crabs are the most plump, although they can be caught in autumn, but they are not full (but before wintering, male crabs are particularly plump and fat, so they are called "male crabs with stubble"). Male crabs are commonly called "pointed umbilicus", immature male crabs are called "check umbilicus", female crabs are commonly called "round umbilicus", female crabs are better, and large crabs with eggs are also called "pomegranate yellow". The market prices of male and female crabs are very different. The crab meat is white, fleshy, tender, creamy and delicious. In particular, the meat with two pincers' pincers' feet is silky and sweet, the crab is yellow and fragrant, and the food is unique, so it has a long reputation and ranks first in seafood.
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