When you think of the sea, you may not think of Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia (内蒙古). But recently, the "seafood" from in these places has become popular, especially after Japan put nuclear-contaminated water(核污染水)into the sea, reported China Daily.
In Xinjiang, about 6, 000 tons of rainbow trout (虹鳟鱼) will be produced this year. Rainbow trout is in the same family as salmon(鲑鱼), a kind of well-known seafood. It tastes like salmon, too.
Why do farmers there choose to grow fish? The weather in some parts of Xinjiang is seldom hot, and the rivers are full of the melt-water(冰雪融水)from the Tianshan Mountains, Water deeper than 6 meters always stays at 10℃. As the melt-water is very clean and cold, it's a suitable home for fish, a worker at a fish company in Xinjiang, told China Daily.
To make sure the river stays clean, the company uses machines to clean fish waste in the water. They also use net cages. They are good for the environment (环境). The nets are about 51 meters wide and reach 25 meters deep in the river.
Meanwhile, in Inner Mongolia, white-leg shrimps (南美白对虾) grows wel. Saline soil (盐碱土) covers a large part of the desert. In the past, farmers put water from the Yellow River onto the farmland to wash away the salt. This was a waste of salty water.
Scientists then came up with a new idea. They decided to make "'seawater" with the salty water by adding in some other components (成分). White-leg shrimps can live well in thiskind of water. They taste no different from the same kind of shrimp that grows in the sea.
①cleans the water with machines
②uses net cages to grow fish in the water
③grows only one kind of fish-rainbow trout
④adds in some other components in the water