The four men dragged the fishing net onto the boat and untied a large number of cutlassfish, mackerel and mullet and vomited them out.
These three types of fish are the most common, and there are also some red, yellow, black, and green ones. In short, there are all kinds of colors.
When it was poured out, the entire deck was filled, and a few fish even leaked out of the boat and fell into the sea because they were piled too high.
Jiang Xia was quick to catch a large red octopus and fish it into the sea.
This red fish weighs 20 kilograms, and costs 30 yuan per piece.
Father Zhou said with a smile: "This net is estimated to be close to a thousand kilograms. It has been a long time since I encountered a big exploding net."
The weather conditions for offshore shipping have been pretty good in the past six months, but the catch of the bursting net is only around 500 to 600 kilograms.
Tian Caihua looked at the mountain of fish and said happily, "Divide the fish, divide the fish! Second brother, second sister-in-law, go and cast the second net quickly."
Ruan Tang and Zhou Chengsen went to lower the nets, Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei brought small stools and sat down to start dividing the fish.
So many fish must be divided up quickly and kept fresh.
Jiang Xia: “There are so many hairtail this year.”
Father Zhou picked up a large red octopus and said, "It is still the peak of the spring fishing season. The schools of barramundi, mackerel, hairtail and mackerel are at their largest. You just didn't go out to sea to trawle at this time before."
Jiang Xia thought about how he was only focused on catching squids with lights last year.
Tian Caihua picked up a hairtail fish as wide as her arm, which was gleaming with silver light. "This year's hairtail fish is fat! Hairtail fish this big are rare."
Most of the hairtails at the dock weigh about one kilogram, but now most of the hairtails in their net weigh more than two or three kilograms.
The price of hairtail weighing about one kilogram and that of two or three kilograms is very different.
A pound of hairtail costs about 60 to 70 cents per pound, and more than two pounds costs about 1.5 yuan per pound.
The price difference is more than half.
This net not only has a lot of hairtail, but also a lot of swordfish. However, the swordfish are not very big, most of them are about one or two kilograms.
In addition to hairtail and swordfish, there are also many barramundi, and the most common one is barramundi.
But the croaker is relatively cheap, at 30 or 40 cents per pound. Smaller croakers are 10 or 20 cents per pound, or even a few cents per pound.
It is the fishing season for balang fish now. There are many balang fish in the market, and some processing plants purchase balang fish to make fish meal.
Zhou Chengxin would also buy some small barramundi to feed the fish in the cages.
The family shared the fish while chatting.
Except for Ruan Tang who was slow in dividing the fish, everyone else was an expert at dividing the fish. It took more than two hours for the group to divide the nearly 1,000 kilograms of fish without stopping.
Because there are more big fish, they are divided quickly.
This net of hairtail weighed about 300 kilograms, of which 100 kilograms were weighing about one kilogram; there were 400 kilograms of swordfish, and the largest amount was croaker, weighing over 400 kilograms.
Among the large fish, this time we also caught a 20-pound octopus and two yellowfin tunas, one weighing more than 20 pounds and the other 30 pounds. We were very lucky.
There were more than ten pounds of large squid, three or four pounds of tiger prawns, four or five large yellow croakers, seven or eight pounds of small yellow croakers, and the other miscellaneous fish weighed about forty to fifty pounds in total.
It should be able to be sold for a thousand dollars.
The fish have been divided, and it is time to start the second net.
This net is not as heavy as the previous one, but it is also very heavy.
When they were pulled up, most of the fish were cutlassfish, mackerel and mullet.
Ruan Tang looked at the fish on the deck and felt a little embarrassed: "This catch is a little small!"
It’s half less than the previous one!
Tian Caihua had already guessed that this network was not as good as the previous one: "Otherwise, do you think the secret I told you was false?"
Father Zhou smiled and said, "Yes, it's estimated to be more than 500 kilograms! It's noon now, when there are the least fish in the sea, so 500 to 600 kilograms is considered a lot. Ah Xin, Ah Hua, it's your turn to cast the nets!"
Tian Caihua thought, five hundred kilograms and one thousand kilograms are half the difference!
She was afraid that if she and Zhou Chengxin, the boy who gave away money, went into the net together, they would probably only get 100 to 200 kilograms.
It was rare for Jiang Xia and Lao Si to go out fishing, and they went with the couple. They also got a share of the money from selling the fish.
It's not like she's so depressed that she thinks the money is too much and has to go online herself!
Tian Caihua pulled Jiang Xia over and said, "Xiao Xia, come and go fishing with us."
"Okay." Jiang Xia was sitting on a small stool and was almost knocked down by Tian Caihua's pull! Fortunately, Zhou Chenglei was right next to her and reached out to protect her back.
Jiang Xia stood up.
Seeing that his wife, who was as strong as an ox, almost pulled down his brother's wife, Zhou Chengxin said unhappily, "Why did you drag my fourth brother's wife to go fishing with you? If you don't want to go fishing with me, I'll go fishing by myself."
Tian Caihua hurriedly stopped him: "Don't do that! Don't you know that you are not a lucky person? If only you and I were to cast the net together, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to catch a hundred kilograms of fish!"
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Zhou Chengxin: "Don't be such a pessimist!"
Tian Caihua didn't care: "Don't worry, even if I have a bad mouth, I can't beat Xiao Xia's lucky hand! Our net will definitely explode!"
There were fish everywhere on the boat. Zhou Chenglei was afraid that Jiang Xia would be hit by Tian Caihua and fall into the sea, so he stood up and helped her walk to the bow.
Tian Caihua was even happier: "Fourth brother, come and join us!"
The couple's fortunes are better than each other, and even the unlucky Zhou Chengxin can't bring them down.
Zhou Chenglei responded: "Yes."
Otherwise, he really wouldn't feel comfortable with Jiang Xia standing next to Tian Caihua.
So the third net was downloaded by four people together.
After setting the net, continue to divide the fish.
This time the net was divided even faster. There were over 100 kilograms of hairtail, 200 kilograms of swordfish, over 200 kilograms of mullet, and 50 to 60 kilograms of other miscellaneous fish in total.
If it can be sold for around three hundred or four hundred yuan, it's pretty good.
After dividing the fish, the three sisters-in-law cooked another bowl of seafood noodles. In the morning, they had noodle soup, and this time they had noodles.
Different flavors, but equally mouth-watering and appetite-stimulating.
Especially after working for most of the day, the whole family was hungry.
Ruan Tang: "This is even better than the seafood noodle shop in town!"
Jiangxia cracked the sauce for the lao noodle restaurant in town and even improved it, making it more delicious than the sauce for the lao noodle restaurant in town.
The rice noodles are the dried rice noodles made by Zhou’s mother, and the rice paste is made from late rice, which is much sweeter than those produced by machines.
Zhou Chenglei would bring a pack to Beijing every time he returned to the small fishing village.
Jiang Xia joked: "When I get old and can no longer work, I will open a shop to live on in my old age."
Tian Caihua immediately said, "Then I'll be your chef!"
Ruan Tang smiled and said, "Then I'll be a dishwasher."
Tian Caihua: "When you are old, you will have a pension, so why would you work?"
Ruan Tang: "Why not? The pension isn't much, is it? My current monthly salary is less than the amount of one net of fish."
Tian Caihua thought that the couple lived in different places and only saw each other once or twice a week, so she said, "Why don't you quit your job and open a small shop in town to earn more, or transfer back to the town's health center! Otherwise, if we are separated for a long time like this, what will we do if we have children in the future?"
Jiang Xia: "I don't recommend transferring back. If anyone needs to transfer, it should be my second brother who should be transferred to the city."
If I am transferred back to the township health center, the benefits will not be as good, I will be busier, and my pension will also be different.
When Ruan Tang and Zhou Chengsen get old, their pension will be in the tens of thousands each per month, which is enough for the couple to live on.
Now that my family has a fishing boat and a farm that makes money, there is no need to quit. If I have extra money, I can continue to buy boats, shops, and make some stable investments.
"Well, I don't plan to transfer." Ruan Tang did think about transferring back to the town health center, but Zhou Chengsen said not to transfer, he would be transferred to the city next year at the latest. She didn't need to lower her job status to accommodate him, he should work hard to improve himself and get close to her.
The third network has enough time to start the network. (End of this chapter)
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