Chapter 420 Fish School
A reef island is an island composed mainly of reefs.
From a distance, this area is full of long rocky beaches.
There is an isolated island, far away from the beach, like a giant crawling on the sea.
Jiangxia only saw a few green plants at the highest point of the island, which is the top of the reef, and the rest was all stone.
Jiang Xia nudged the person next to him with his elbow and asked, "Does the island look like a giant wearing a green hat?"
Zhou Chenglei: “…”
With her imagination, Zhou Chenglei was a little worried about her college entrance examination essay.
Zhou Chenglei circled the reef island and found a suitable stopping point.
Zhou Chenglei didn't bring the boat too close and parked it.
Jiang Xia looked at the exposed reefs and the underwater reefs, and saw many clams clinging to the reefs.
He said to Jiang Xia, "I'm going to go into the water. If you're tired, you can take a nap on the boat."
Not to mention that it is winter now, Jiang Xia’s current physical condition is not suitable for going into the water.
Jiang Xia nodded: "Okay."
It was impossible for her to sleep. How could she sleep peacefully when he went into the sea alone? She had to keep an eye on him in the water from time to time.
She just lay down on the recliner to rest, eat some fruits and snacks, and read a book to pass the time.
Zhou Chenglei warmed up, threw a large bundle of straw ropes onto the reef, then put on a diving suit and jumped into the sea.
These ropes are used to collect sea urchin larvae.
Zhou Chenglei climbed onto the reef, picked up one end of the straw rope, found a relatively protruding reef in the water, tied the straw rope on it, and then moved a stone to hit the straw rope.
Otherwise, under the constant erosion of sea water, the straw rope will easily loosen and then be washed away by the waves.
After tying one end of the straw rope, he swam forward around the reef holding the rope, and wrapped the rope around the reef covered with clams.
Every one or two meters he would find stones to hit the rope to prevent it from being washed away by the sea.
After Zhou Chenglei fixed one straw rope, he took another straw rope to continue fixing it.
This time he brought a total of six straw ropes. After he tied all the ropes, it was more than an hour later, and then he started to collect clams again.
Since we have already gone into the sea, we must collect some to take home and eat.
The clams are tightly arranged and attached to the rocks. No one has ever harvested the clams here, so they are so densely packed.
In order to save time, Zhou Chenglei used a shovel to shovel the fruits one by one into the net bag.
He didn't even pick up what fell into the sea.
He would shovel the piece that was bigger.
In a short while, a large net bag was shoveled up.
He tied himself to the rope thrown down by Jiang Xia, and after a while he returned to the boat and lifted himself directly onto the boat, and then continued to shovel out a net bag.
It was low tide, and the tide receded quickly and rose quickly. They were in the middle of the sea, so the tide rose even faster.
Zhou Chenglei shoveled two net bags and the tide began to rise.
But since Jiang Xia is on the boat, Zhou Chenglei doesn't have to worry.
He shoveled another net bag and climbed onto the boat.
After taking off his diving equipment and putting on his clothes, he hoisted the net bags of clams onto the boat.
Jiang Xia squatted down, looked through the three large net bags of Haihong and said with a smile: "So fat, I'm in for a treat tonight."
Zhou Chenglei: “I don’t know if it tastes good.”
He has never eaten this thing.
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It should be delicious."
Of course, Jiang Xia thinks mussels are not as delicious as oysters. She thinks mussels have a stronger fishy smell and are not as fresh and sweet as oysters, but the taste of the two is different. The meat of mussels is firmer. Anyway, fresh mussels taste good.
Moreover, after mussels are dried, they become clams, which can be used to make porridge or soup to enhance the freshness and flavor.
Zhou Chenglei went to drive the boat: "You take a nap, I'll go drive the boat."
Zhou Chenglei could tell at a glance whether Jiang Xia was asleep or not.
He knew exactly what she looked like when she woke up.
After Jiang Xia wakes up, her face will be a little rosier than before going to bed, with a faint pink, very tender.
Looks very good.
"I'll go to sleep later." Jiang Xia was indeed sleepy, but she planned to wait until Zhou Chenglei put down the net before going to sleep.
Zhou Chenglei raised the anchor, set sail, and headed in the direction where his father and his friends were going to the sea, wanting to see if his father and his friends had boarded the boat.
Today, the other three boats are all at that beach to catch seafood, so Zhou Chenglei doesn't have to worry about his mother and father not having a boat to ride.
Since she was the kind of person who could fall asleep as soon as she relaxed and lay down, Jiang Xia did not sit on the recliner. She stood beside Zhou Chenglei and watched him drive the boat.
Zhou Chenglei simply held her in his arms and let her lean on him.
After the boat sailed away for a distance, Zhou Chenglei was about to set the net, and Jiang Xia saw countless seabirds circling on the sea in the distance.
Jiang Xia immediately pointed in the direction of that spot, because she didn't know which direction it was, so she couldn't go wrong just by pointing! "There's a school of fish!"
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Wherever there are seabirds circling on the sea, there must be flocks of them.
"I'll drive the boat, and you set the net."
Zhou Chenglei looked over and it seemed that the fish would come to their side with the tide.
Zhou Chenglei handed the boat to Jiang Xia to control while he went to cast the net.
Trawl is not a good option at this time, it is better to use purse seine, but their boat does not have purse seine fishing equipment.
If the two boats are together, they can still be operated.
Zhou Chenglei directly cast the drift net, and then he went to drive the boat.
Jiang Xia looked at the fish that the seabird caught with a telescope: "It should be a golden pomfret or a silver pomfret."
Zhou Chenglei took the telescope and took a look. It was indeed a golden pomfret or a silver pomfret.
The distance is a bit far, so Zhou Chenglei has enough time to operate.
Jiang Xia watched Zhou Chenglei drive the boat towards the flock of seabirds and make a big circle, surrounding the place where the seabirds were flying.
Then he stopped the boat to give the fish time to enter the net.
He started the fishing boat and continued moving forward only when he saw that most of the seabirds were staying in one place.
Zhou Chenglei said to Jiang Xia, "I'll go and pull up the net. You just keep driving forward. You don't have to drive too fast. Just drive slowly at this speed. It takes time for the fish to get into the net."
"good."
Jiang Xia sat in the chair and began to steer the boat.
Zhou Chenglei pulled up the fishing net, hung it on the net lifting machine, and started to pull the net.
It was not a trawl, so it was not a big bag of fish, but a net was pulled up directly with golden pomfret hanging on it one by one.
This group of golden pomfret is fat, each weighing about 70 to 80 taels.
It was still early, so Zhou Chenglei tried his best to take the fish one by one and throw them into the basket.
But there were too many fish in the net and he couldn't take them all. He could only try his best to take one at a time.
The seabirds did not give up and directly grabbed the fish from the fishing net.
There are also daring seabirds that directly steal the fish from the baskets.
If he had known they would encounter a school of golden pomfret, he would have called his parents over so that it would have been faster.
Before long, the first and second wives and the family’s fishing boats were also attracted by the flock of seabirds.
Three boats approached Jiangxia's fishing boats.
Tian Caihua saw Zhou Chenglei pulling up the net, with golden pomfret hanging on the net one by one. Her eyes widened: "Did you encounter a school of fish again?"
If she had known, she would not have gone to the beach! Today, there are mostly octopuses and snails on the beach, but there are not many octopuses, but there are many snails, but snails are not valuable!
When Li Qingmin's wife saw them encountering a school of golden pomfret, she couldn't help but ask Li Qingmin, "Did the couple deliberately lead us to the beach to catch golden pomfret so that they could catch them themselves?"