Cold freezes sea-farmers' income

Record low temperatures and the worst sea ice in 30 years have caused huge losses to sea-farmers and fishermen as well as chaos on the streets of Shandong and Liaoning provinces.

About 40 percent of the Bohai Sea's surface is already frozen. Sea-farmers said they expected nothing to be left by spring.

Fan Xinyuan, a resident of Jinzhou district, north of Dalian, Liaoning province, who raised 66.7 hectares of sea cucumber, told China Daily that if the temperature didn't rise and ice continues to block the sea, there will be no sea cucumbers left.