Ever since we entered the month of December 2020 during the festive seasons we were blessed with enough catch, and ohhhh sorry I forgot to tell you my parents are into buying and exporting all kinds of sea foods but during the festives we had only prawn's all all was in large quantities and qualities the tiger/giant sizes to be precise.
How We Do:
We buy in large quantities preserve them and then wait for our customers to come(for those around) but for those at far distance like Abuja, Lagos and most of the top cities we waybill it to them.
Dealing with prawn's business you have to consider so many things as the business is very lucrative but when the losses comes it hits hard and in a different way because prawn's is very expensive to buy as the fishing of the prawn's is quite difficult to get.
THE FISHING PROCESS
The fishers of the prawn's use line of little sizes, these lines are then weaved to form a net with is used to catch them. I would've loved to elaborate more on the fishing process but I have very little knowledge about it's fishing, and after that the fisherman might choose to sell them or preserve them, it's at this stage they sell it to us.
We buy from them and then sell to our customers close by, for those (our customers) who wants it to be waybilled to them we preserve the prawn's if not they'll turn bad.
How will you know a prawn's is bad:
Decoloration is the main indicator here, they prawn's once it's bad it'll either begin to turn black or becomes too red.
But to avoid it from being spoilt, we preserve them.
You can see the color change in the picture, they're beginning to change to red that's to say they're beginning to spoil.
The preservation process
Let's begin with breaking the ice block into tiny pieces, then you pour in the ice block into the empty cooler before putting the prawns then along the line you pour in the ice again but this time around the quantity would be more than the previous one.
Then while approaching the top you pour in a little then at the uppermost top you pour in again in larger quantity, then carton is used to cover it so that it could keep the ice temperature intact, before it's exported.
That's how it has been going on everyday over here and now that I'm already missing everything. That's how we do it here.
