A survey of Guangzhou’s Huangsha aquatic market and major supermarkets found a sharp price divergence in this year’s hairy-crab season. Small and mid-size commodity crabs have plunged — some female crabs offered as low as 5 yuan each — while premium specimens above 250g (half jin) still trade at about 150 yuan each at landing. At current prices, 100 yuan can buy up to seven ordinary crabs of roughly 100g each (2 taels). The decline is concentrated in sub‑175g (under 3.5 taels) sizes; 175g and la

A survey of Guangzhou’s Huangsha aquatic market and major supermarkets found a sharp price divergence in this year’s hairy-crab season. Small and mid-size commodity crabs have plunged — some female crabs offered as low as 5 yuan each — while premium specimens above 250g (half jin) still trade at about 150 yuan each at landing. At current prices, 100 yuan can buy up to seven ordinary crabs of roughly 100g each (2 taels). The decline is concentrated in sub‑175g (under 3.5 taels) sizes; 175g and larger premium stock is limited and prices have held. Supermarkets introducing Yangcheng Lake product reported overall retail prices down roughly 5% YoY.