Hello, this is Kim Min-seong from Iltakuma. Okay, where am I? I'm in Sokcho, Gangwon-do.

I'm at Daepo Port, Sokcho. Why am I at Daepo Port?

Today is about yellowtail. But we've covered yellowtail many times, so why yellowtail again?

I'm here to show you how to raise them, because 90% of the yellowtail on the market are...

I'm here to cover everything from how to raise them, how to feed them, etc.

I'm a hard-working Iltakuma. Please keep an eye on me. I'll go.

Now, the staff keeps peeling off some kind of plastic. What is this? It's yellowtail feed. It's herring.

They don't even feed mackerel; they only feed it with herring. My explanation of the feed won't be enough,

so I'll invite the president of Daeil Fisheries next to me. Hello. How and what kind of herring is used?

It is not imported herring. If you look at seasonal herring, you can see that these are all herring with roe.

The ovaries and testes are from original winter herring, but we only use grade A herring.

How much feed do you usually give per day? It is given twice a week, and each time it is given,

it's given in a 25-ton frozen box. Between 1,100 and 1,300 pieces are given.

Giving it once costs about 30 million won.  It costs about 30 million won, the same as the cost of the feed given once.

This herring is now 12,000 won per kg, not 15,000 won; we use 24,000 won per kg.

We use good herring. Hahaha. So, if you talk about how much better it will be

if you spend 24,000 won, the quality of the yellowtail fat will change. I know that for sure.

Hehehe. Yellowtail is oily. It has a savory oil. But isn't it too expensive? 24,000 won is at

its peak. Sometimes I eat this much, but when the water is warm until about August, I don't eat much.

At that time, I eat about 10 tons less, and even when it's very cold, I don't eat much again. This is just the right time. I eat it.

Oh, you know exactly? Haha, I know a little bit. Yellowtail is fed heavily at this time, when it goes from fall to early winter.

It eats until early November, accumulates fat, and survives the winter. Let's take a look at the feeding process. Let's go in.

Press here to make the yellowtail bite-sized. When you make it, it comes out~ If you press it with a press, look,

there is a frame underneath, so it is pressed and cut, and it comes out. They said

it was over, so they said it wasn't there, so 6 trucks are coming in. Now I took a picture of 1

lol. 6 trucks. I took pictures in the morning, and took five more pictures in the afternoon.

Now, if you hit them with a hammer from above, they come out bite-sized. Since the yellowtail is big, these are bite-sized.

If you look at them, these are herring milt and these are eggs (ovaries). It's a herring.

It has roe, roe, and definitely a lot of fat. Can people just boil it and eat it?

If it's this fresh, it's okay for people to eat it. Hehehe.

How hard would it have been if I didn't have a press machine like this? My house is probably the oldest on the East Coast.

I've been farming yellowtail for over 20 years. Chef, do you use a lot of yellowtail in the winter?

Yes, I use a little bit of yellowtail. It's my first time meeting you. I'll give you a really big, prime yellowtail.

Thank you. Are you only using yellowtail that comes from your network? Do you buy yellowtail caught by other boats, too?

Oh, we catch more than 95% of everything ourselves. We catch a lot of yellowtail and a lot of other large fish.

We should have been on the boat this morning, but we're not feeding them. We still go out in the morning to fish, right?

I go out every day at dawn. I sleep in every day. Let's go tomorrow. Chef, don't you get seasick?

There's a warning for tomorrow. There's no such thing as seasickness for me. Now, I will take fresh herring like this,

put it on a boat, go to the circular cage, and feed it to the yellowtail.

I will film it and catch some yellowtail, so please take a look. Yes, I will do that. There are

a whopping 15 tons of herring used as feed. You will see a circular cage. We will go to that cage and spread all the food.

It is called a yellowtail fish farm, but it's not a farmed farm. To be precise, it's a livestock farm.

They are caught when they are young and fattened. So now, this is the part of the yellowtail that weighs more than 10kg, and is also

farmed a lot in Japan. Japan has succeeded in perfect farming. For a long time, when it comes to perfect farming,

the hatched ones grow big, the hatched ones grow big again, and the third generation is perfect, so it is called complete farming.

Our country doesn't completely farm fish. There are many problems, including cost issues, so we do a lot of farming by catching them.

They say that catching the babies is bad, but it's not a bad thing. We catch the babies and raise them

instead of immediately processing them as feed. I know that they are allowing it. First of all, there are 12 cages.

According to what I heard beforehand, 12 cages are worth about 2.4 billion won.

Each cage contains about 200 million won worth of yellowtail. To be honest, the yellowtail are spectacular when you feed them.

Look at the fish. It looks like they are going to drop food right away. Okay~

Hey, look at the jumping fish! Come and check it out. There's a lot of oil. There's a lot of oil floating on the sea.

That means they are used to oily herring in one tank. How much does the feed cost?

There are about 3,200 to 3,500 of them. Let's see. Can we give them one ton of food each?

It takes about 7 sacks. If you calculate it, it has to be 4 to 5 tons more expensive.

The average kg of our yellowtail shipped last year (specially graded yellowtail) was 12.8kg.

Oh, it's really good. It holds a lot of water. The net is like this now.

Do they tend to eat well at this rate today? They don't eat this often, they say

they don't eat this often. Let's give it to them once and let's go. The fish are hungry again.

About 3 tons in the cage? They say they throw about 2 to 3 tons of food,

But you said 4 to 5 tons? In my opinion, it feels like seagulls could eat 500 kg.

It's scary, you idiot. The boss is doing this now to catch the big one so he can give you a yellowtail.

I'll pick this one up today and give it a good review. It doesn't seem very big, right?

The one that weighs 12-13 kg is a cub. Is this enough? You don't like that one either.

It weighs about 14-15 kg. This one weighs 14 kg. 14 kg. 14 kg.

This is a really large yellowtail. It weighs 14-15 kg, so it's best to try it first.

Try it and see how much oil is in it. It's perfect with soy sauce. If you dip it, the oil will come out.

You know that. I'm going to take that to Seoul and try various yellowtail dishes.

You're not going to use the intestines, are you? Yeah, yeah, huh? The light broke behind

me. I broke it. Ah... I'm sorry. I'm the culprit. Thank you.

I'll take good pictures with this. Yes, the yellowtail is really good. Normal yellowtail weighing more than 8 kg is called extra-large yellowtail,

but these days, the standard has been raised a little. In general, in Noryangjin, anything

over 10 kg is called extra-large yellowtail. The price difference between 8 kg yellowtail and 10 kg yellowtail is

significant. The difference is more than 10,000 won. Sometimes, the difference is more than double.

The reason for the difference is simple, right? It's because of the oil. First of all,

Let's eat the sashimi we got. And today, I'll cook something special: yellowtail shabu-shabu. Let's try it!

It's slippery. It's yellowtail belly fat.

It's yellowtail belly fat.  It's impossible for yellowtail fat to be without meat, but...

are we lucky? It's clean, without meat. But still, the worms might come out.

Don't be disappointed if worms appear. Among winter yellowtail, very few are worm-free.

This is the back meat. This is the tail meat. This is the middle belly fat. The yellowtail's large belly fat,

cheek meat, cheek meat. The manager gave me two pieces, so I'll cut them up and taste them.

Middle belly meat, belly meat + big belly meat, whorl meat, cheek meat, toe

meat, upper back meat, and middle back meat. It should be divided into two: upper back meat,

middle back meat, and tail meat. Now, this is the sashimi and yellowtail shabu-shabu.

14kg... It's an extra-large yellowtail, weighing about 15kg. Sashimi is a taste we all know.

To be honest, we all know the taste, but once you taste this sashimi...

Let's go straight to the shabu-shabu. Let's try the sashimi.

Let's eat the belly fat first. This is too oily. I don't want to eat the belly

fat. I want to eat the shank meat. You cut it too big. Wow, it's rich!

I put a lot of wasabi in it, but it's too greasy, so there wasn't enough wasabi.

There's even cheek meat. Let's try it. It's cheek meat, because it's so light. No matter

which type of cheek meat you eat, it tastes the same. It doesn't deviate even an inch from what I expected.

To be honest, let me tell you, it's delicious without any deviation. It's tofu.

Let's try the tofu. Is the tofu spicy? There isn't much oil in the soybean meat.

The chewy texture is a work of art. Yes, it is alcoholic. Ah, but it is really delicious.

It is definitely different because it has oil but is chewy. Japanese yellowtail has oil and is chewy, but this one

has oil but is chewy. Now, please eat the sashimi. I am Shabu. Let's move on to shabu.

Now, this is the middle belly. Wow, I made it, but it's really delicious.

Hahahaha. Actually, I put this fresh food in the soup and cooked it like this.

여러분이 먹는 대방어는 이렇게 길러집니다 (ft.하루 사료값만 3,000만원)

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