Slippery charges land eel farmers in fishy net
By Hu Meidong and Hu Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2008-01-04 07:44
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A worker walks on a concrete wall separating ponds in an eel farm in Fuqing. The ponds are indoors and maintain the highest standard of hygiene to ensure better products. |
Zhang Xiuguo has his fingers crossed. "I just can't take it off my mind," he says, throwing his hands in the air and staring bluntly at the closed doors. Outside those doors is a cluster of 70 ponds, all indoors, in which Xiuguo and his four brothers have invested all they had. The ponds are part of their farm, spread over more than 18 mu (1.2 hectares), complete with 10 wells about 100-m deep and the more than 1 million eels. Then there's the enclosure where eel excreta is degraded organically before it flows into the sea.
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