Shandong Huiyang Group: Discover the Pacific Saury and Unlock Its Endless Culinary Possibilities

The Autumn Messenger of the Pacific

The romance of autumn lies not only in the falling leaves across the mountains and the gentle evening breeze, but also in the vast, deep sea, where a gentle, time-defying journey is underway.

The Pacific saury (Order Beloniformes, Family Scomberesocidae, Genus Cololabis) is a cold-water oceanic migratory fish characterized by the absence of a stomach and a short intestine.

The "Autumn" in its name refers to its peak fishing season (especially from September to November). Autumn is a season of harvest, symbolizing the cycle and transition of seasons, and also carries the meaning of reunion. The "Knife" vividly describes its unique slender, laterally compressed, and knife-like body shape.

【A Gift from the Deep Sea】

The Pacific saury has an elongated, rod-like, and laterally compressed body. Its snout is sickle-shaped, with relatively large eyes, a terminal mouth, and a lower jaw slightly longer than the upper jaw. The dorsal and anal fins are located toward the rear of the body, the pelvic fins are slightly behind the center, and the tail fin is deeply forked. Its back is dark blue, the belly is silvery-grey, and the tip of the snout and the rear of the caudal peduncle are tinged with yellow.

Core Distribution: The North Pacific Ocean.

They primarily inhabit the tropical and temperate waters of the Pacific along the coasts of Asia and the Americas, including the Sea of Japan, Alaska, the Bering Sea, California, and Mexico.

Pacific saury prefer to form schools, commonly inhabiting waters with a temperature of 15-18°C. Their suitable temperature range is 10-24°C, and they are found at depths of 0 to 230 meters.

They feed on zooplankton, such as shrimp, crustaceans, pteropods, copepods, cephalopods, and fish eggs, with a particular preference for shrimp.

The Pacific saury exhibits distinct seasonal migratory habits:

Spring & Summer: Influenced by the Kuroshio Current (warm current), they migrate northward for feeding.

Autumn: Driven by the Oyashio Current (cold current), they migrate southward to spawn. This period marks the main fishing season.

Winter: They reach warmer southern waters to spawn.

Primary Fishing Method: The stick-held dip net. Fishermen utilize the saury's phototaxis (attraction to light) for nighttime operations.

【Autumn: A Harvest Arriving as Promised】

The ocean never fails the changing seasons. Growing and feeding in the open sea, the saury silently accumulates the richness and nutrients of a whole year. The crispness and depth of the distant ocean, along with the unique freshness and purity of autumn, are about to yield their timely harvest.

The main specifications of our saury include: Special Size, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5.

【Bringing the Ocean's Tenderness to the Dining Table】

The Pacific saury is highly nutritious with delicious meat. It is rich in easily absorbable high-quality protein, abundant EPA, DHA, and various vitamins, making it an excellent source of marine nutrition. It also contains calcium, vitamin D, and amino acids required by middle-aged and elderly people and children. 

Pacific saury can be prepared in diverse ways: salt-grilled, kabayaki (glazed and grilled), sashimi, stewed, mannose boiled, pan-fried, braised in soy sauce, spicy stir-fried, topped with sauce, barbecued, smoked, deep-fried, made into fish balls, or oil-preserved.

It is a fish that lets you taste the season with just one bite. From vibrant street food stalls to private restaurants and ordinary family dining tables, its unique flavor with rich fat is deeply loved by people.

【 SHANDONG HUIYANG GROUP 】

Shandong Huiyang Group, which is an enterprise in marine industry, engaged in deep-sea fishing, food processing, shipbuilding and ship repairs. The Group, with Penglai Jinglu Fishery Co., Ltd. as its parent company, has several subsidiaries including Penglai Huiyang Foodstuff Co., Ltd. and Penglai Jinglu Shipyard Co., Ltd. It is a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization and a high-quality development base for international agricultural trade. Its industry-university-research achievements have won the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Founded in 1990, Penglai Jinglu Fishery Co., Ltd. operates a deep-sea fishing fleet that conducts year-round saury and squid fishing in the Pacific Ocean, the Southwest Atlantic. Its saury catch volume has consistently maintained a leading position in Mainland China for many consecutive years.

Penglai Huiyang Foodstuff is a Shandong Province "Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative" (SRDI) enterprise, with more than 10 modern food processing workshops, and annual processing capacity of more than 60,000 tons, cold storage capacity of 240,000 cubic meters, with a public bonded warehouse. The products mainly include hundreds of varieties of quick-frozen aquatic products, quick-frozen prepared food, quick-frozen food made of wheat flour and rice, canned aquatic products, and others.

Penglai Jinglu Shipyard was established in 2006, is a modern enterprise specializing in shipbuilding and ship repair. Its independently developed and built 77-meter saury and squid fishing vessel has all its performance indicators reaching internationally advanced levels, providing strong support for the Group's deep-sea fishing operations.

The company has established a complete food safety management system, passed ISO9001, HACCP, BRC, IFS, MSC, ASC, ISO14001, ISO45001,HALAL and other system certifications, and also obtained the EU, South Korea and other aquatic processing plant registration. The testing center of the company are well equipped, and was approved by CNAS Laboratory in 2008. At present, the company's products are sold in more than 30 domestic provinces and cities and exported to Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, Southeast Asia and other more than 10 countries, and the company has established long-term partner relationship with a number of large fast food chain companies and well-known foreign aquatic enterprises.

The "Jinglu seafoods" brand has steadily grown into a renowned name in the industry, recognized for its high market share, consistent quality, and strong consumer satisfaction.

In 2020, "Jinglu seafoods " was selected as a Recommended Seafood Brand by the China Agricultural Brand Public Service Platform. In 2026, the company was recognized as a Shandong Export Brand Enterprise, and in the same year, Jinglu seafoods's quick-frozen prepared foods were named among the first batch of "Shandong Premium Consumer Products."

Honest, professional, forward looking, innovative are our spirit. Diligent, Frugal, Well-mannered, Trustworthy are our code of conduct. Under the continuous journey of exploring the deep blue ocean, we are grateful to the gift of the nature, and will continue to pay attention to green processing, energy conservation, environmental protection and social welfare undertakings in the future. With the sustainable development principle in mind, we will continue to provide the consumers with healthy seafoods and delicious, nutritious and reliable diet solutions, and jointly create a better life.

As we move forward steadily through time, may we honor the changing seasons and our hard work. May this autumn bring us a bountiful harvest and gentle moments.