Ships of live abalones sail off from the Ailun Bay marine ranch in Chongcheng City, Shandong Province on Thursday. As temperatures drop in the north, aquaculture workers transport abalones to the waters off Fujian Province for continued cultivation. Over 100 million abalones, heading to Putian and Ningde in Fujian to spend winter, will return to Rongcheng in April or May of the following year, 90% of which will survive and finally reach dinner tables after a few years. Xinhua | 