For days, members of Xiaoshishan Fisheries Cooperative in Fanshi town, Cixi City, are busy harvesting the first crop of seaweed. According to the person in charge of the cooperative, fresh seaweed’s price reached 6 yuan per kilogram at present, with yield 150 kilograms of seaweed per mu, having 3,000 Yuan income every mu.

    At the beginning of last year, having good prospects of seaweed culture, Sun Guofeng, Wang Huan, and other 8 fishermen built the cooperative, with more than 500 thousand Yuan investment in the shallow sea for seaweed culture.