Big Whitebait

Big Whitebait

　　Big Whitebait. The 107,000-mu water area of five fishing grounds, including the Sihai Pao in Taonan, has reached a production scale for big whitebait. In 1999, 20 tons of big whitebait were harvested, along with 152 million eggs, generating an output value of 860,000 yuan. Thanks to the unpolluted water quality in our region, the big whitebait has excellent color and is highly favored by merchants from Japan and Taiwan, with most of the product exported to Southeast Asia. By 2002, it is planned to develop 150,000 mu of water area, with an annual production of 150,000 kg of big whitebait and an output value of 20 million yuan. (Taonan)