www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Industries

Australian seafood gets wings

By Bloomberg (China Daily) Updated: 2015-02-16 11:26

In shark-infested waters off the Australian island of Tasmania, Dean Lisson spends five hours a day diving for abalone.

Dodging the sharks is his first challenge. Getting the catch alive to hungry Chinese diners is the next.

Live sea snails that cost A$40 ($31) a kilogram in Australia change hands for A$60 a kilo in Hong Kong, said Lisson. The chewy flesh is a prized ingredient in traditional Chinese cuisine. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Singapore Airlines Ltd and Qantas Airways Ltd are filling up their luggage holds carrying seafood on the 8,000 kilometer journey.

"We want to get it to the market in the best possible condition," says Lisson. "The live product is at the premium end: you've got to look after it."

Australia sends about A$1.6 billion of food overseas by plane each year, making it the country's biggest airborne export after gold and medicine. The trade in abalone and rock lobster alone was valued at about A$761 million in the 12 months ended June, according to government data - up about 31 percent from the A$581 million total three years earlier. Nearly 90 percent of the country's seafood is exported by air.

Exports to China of the two shellfish are worth more to Australia than those of wine or dairy products, according to the Abalone Council, an industry group. They'll benefit further from a free-trade deal signed in November that will cut China's tariffs from 15 percent to zero by 2018.

The agreement "will open up the market for us", Nigel Chynoweth, Australia cargo manager at Cathay Pacific, says, allowing the carrier to supply smaller cities in western and northeastern China from its Hong Kong hub.

Cathay currently carries as much as 20 tons per flight of lobsters from Perth airport and charges four to five times more to ship seafood than it does for fruit and vegetables, he says. The export growth has been driven by growing Chinese wealth and changing consumer tastes, as well as improvements in the airborne supply chain, he adds.

"The Chinese population is becoming more worldly in terms of appreciation for this product," Chynoweth said, referring to lobster. "It's not just in the high-end restaurants."

Abalone (as shown in picture above) is a prized ingredient in Chinese cuisine - one of nine seafoods, including shark's fin, sea cucumber, and cuttlefish roe, described in the Garden of Contentment, a culinary classic by 18th century poet and gourmet Yuan Mei.

The most-prized variety is still the dried abalone produced around the northern Chinese port of Dalian, according to Mark Wang, executive sous chef at Shanghai's Fairmont Peace Hotel.

Drying produces about 200 grams per 1.5 km of fresh meat, which then has to be soaked and braised in a "very complicated production process" taking as long as a week, he says.

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 美女a毛片| 色综合美国色农夫网 | 亚洲欧洲日产v特级毛片 | 日韩国产午夜一区二区三区 | 99精品国产综合久久久久 | 成人做爰全视频 | 午夜a毛片 | 国产a一级毛片午夜剧院 | 国产精选在线播放 | 91视频啪啪 | 久久夜色精品国产亚洲 | 亚洲在线天堂 | 亚洲va久久久噜噜噜久久狠狠 | 亚洲欧美在线视频 | 国产精品色综合久久 | 综合亚洲欧美日韩一区二区 | 欧美日本综合一区二区三区 | 欧美一级做一a做片性视频 欧美一级做一级爱a做片性 | 国产主播福利精品一区二区 | 污全彩肉肉无遮挡彩色 | 国产成人一区二区三区 | 欧美在线观看高清一二三区 | 99爱视频在线 | 日本www视频在线观看 | aaaaaa级特色特黄的毛片 | 亚洲国产精品免费观看 | 亚洲免费成人网 | 91精品国产免费 | 99精彩免费观看 | 福利社在线 | 国产精品综合久成人 | 怡红院日本一道日本久久 | 国产视频一区二区三区四区 | 精品自拍视频在线观看 | 美女视频黄a | 久久综合精品国产一区二区三区无 | 国产在线观看免费人成小说 | 欧美在线做爰高清视频 | 国产一区二区免费不卡在线播放 | 亚洲一区中文 | 久久精品国产线看观看亚洲 |