[chart article] blue clam
Persian Gulf Shandong non-younger brother sea area
Reporter : I such laborious ford come am to feel the sunlight sand beach and the ocean waves.
illustrated: Sea beautiful ubiquitous! In the Shandong Wudi County domestic this child island, the entire pile of shell will take into vain the human a fairy tale world, when reporter will be immersing in wonderful daydream time, this local fisherman actually said that the shell will be dies, here will have one kind of special live treasure.

Shandong Province Wudi County in vain child island village fisherman: This is the blue clam, is our island special product.
is originally one kind of clam la, but, this kind of clam is also long is really worthy of the reputation, some body green's shell, has a look at this head again, a little looks like cow's eye, therefore is called the buphthalmos clam, then what it does pour the bottom to have special place?

Shandong Province Wudi County in vain child island village fisherman: This blue clam may the blue water boil, this is the blue clam's meat.
Reporter : This procedure is but actually very simple, did not know that the flavor is what kind of?
fisherman: You taste.

Reporter : Is really the delicacies from the sea is full, with the local words said that is the flavor unusual fresh unusual purity, eats.
the blue clam nutrition is rich, besides includes the high protein, the fat, the carbohydrate, the iron content is high, but also includes the calcium, the phosphorus, and so on nutritive elements, but facilitates simply procedure, is also it attracts a consumer's reason.

Consumer: The procedure are quite many, is very convenient.
illustrated: But reporter discovered that the blue clam is not rare in the market, why is called the treasure?
operator: Compares the clam, compared the astarte arctica price to be expensively many, the clam 4 Yuan one catty, it stocks with goods now the words took 6.5 Yuan to 7 Yuan one catty.

is a clam class similarly, why the blue clam will be higher than in the local price these many?
operator: Wants few many compared to the first several annual output, most recent several years one day must produce several dozens tons even to produce over a hundred tons, now produces several thousand catties.
is originally this, no wonder reporter bumps into the senior fisherman is called it the live treasure! As the blue clam's source area, Wudi County must in the sea delivery clam seedling, protect this characteristic resources every year. Also using the local region superiority, has done the artificial cultivation on the shallow seas and tidelands, now goes on the market the blue clam is from the cultivation factory.

Reporter : Had, this was the blue clam which we bred artificially, long to such greatly might go on the market?
operator: May go on the market.
Reporter : What skill fishes the blue clam to have?
operator: Has. On this mouth's bamboo strip is flat, blue clam under putty 2-3 centimeters positions, must therefore make an effort downward to press, therefore this fishes the blue clam, is also spends the physical strength very much a matter.
Reporter : Then I can be good? . operator: Almost may.Reporter : May, I not be immodest, I also try.

breeds the blue clam to be possible artificially to guarantee that year to year has fresh blue clam going on the market, but, if wants to realize the cultivation benefit, is also not an easy matter, reporter to find that surveys in the pond the blue clam female and male proportion, is saves the cost one way.

Reporter: I thought that you such earnest are dissecting the blue clam, this blue clam what is female? What is also male?
Stationmaster Ma: The blue clam is female and male, only then opens it, can distinguish, after opens like this, what the software department quite bright is red is the female body, what such germ cells for cream color is the male body.
the blue clam is one kind of reproduction ability very strong shellfish, breeds after the pond one time throws the seedling, the second year may act according to the female and male proportion to survey the young Miao quantity, like this may use their nature reproduction characteristic, carries on the circulation cultivation in the pond, little throws the seedling even not to throw the seedling, reduced has bought the small clam seedling the cost, then how its benefit could?

Stationmaster Ma: In the benefit in the profit must compare other shellfishes to compare, increases above 30%. Our area of cultivation amounts to 36000 Chinese acres.
present, the Wudi County blue clam cultivation yearly produces 45,000,000 tons, had already gone far beyond the oceanographic catching output, blue clam this kind of sea's presenting, already became in the local shellfish culture the most characterful live treasure.