Chapter 116: There is another invisible fish layer under the fish layer
As it was still dark, the father and his sons came to the beach with flashlights.
Li Liang's boat was not docked at the same pier as theirs. When the two Liang boats set out, they saw another boat with lights on approaching. Shouts came from the boat, and it was Li Liang and his companions.
"Brother Qiang, we still have to find a recognizable place to release the underwater buoys. Last time, I just threw them on the sea surface randomly, but I drove the boat back and forth for a long time before I finally found the buoy. This time, why don't we go to a sea with an island? It will be easier to find it then!"
Li Liang suggested as the boat approached.
Liang Ziqiang feels the same way. Although the submarines have brightly colored buoys that are easy to identify, the sea is so vast that it is a bit unreliable to rely on memory to find the buoys. If you search back and forth, it will consume a lot of fuel.
To be honest, Liang Ziqiang couldn't find the underwater fish he released before, and he still hasn't figured out whether he remembered the wrong place or someone else took them away.
This time when he started to explore the seabed again, he also planned to go to the sea area with islands nearby, so that the search would not be too far off.
As for which island to go to, he had already thought about it: "The islands that are a little closer are Guanqi Island and Chengpan Island. How about going to the sea area near Guanqi Island today and throwing the submarine there?"
"Okay, then let's go to Guanqi Island!" Li Liang agreed immediately.
Liang's father also agreed to go to Guanqi Island and cast a net along the way.
The three boats sailed along until the sky was bright over the sea, but they still didn't find any decent schools of fish.
A trace of disappointment filled the hearts of the group.
A cool breeze blew, and Father Liang sneezed loudly, then sighed:
"I'm not wearing enough clothes. The autumn rain is getting colder. It has been raining for several days and the temperature has dropped significantly! If I want to catch as many fish as I did a while ago, I have to rely on the blessing of Mazu!"
Liang Ziqiang also felt the chill in the wind. Half a month had passed since the Mid-Autumn Festival, and as late autumn approached, the "off-season" for fishermen was also about to arrive.
The habitat and migration of marine fish are closely related to temperature and season.
The marine fish in the north that have adapted to the cold climate are relatively better off. On the contrary, the fish in the South China Sea are adapted to growing in high temperatures and are relatively sensitive to temperature changes.
Most of the marine fish in the South China Sea live in shallow waters or even near the coast during the season when the temperature is relatively high. As the temperature drops, they begin to return to the deep sea.
When it is cold, the water temperature will be higher as you go deeper into the sea. Therefore, in late autumn, fish will swim to slightly deeper waters; when it gets colder, fish will swim to even deeper waters.
As a result, there are four or five months a year when no fish can be caught, except for the giant deep-sea fishing vessels.
As for the ordinary fishermen in Changwang Village, their only source of income in the past four or five months is the money they saved in the previous seven or eight months. Every family has to live a tight life to survive the off-season.
"Uncle Fu, judging from the situation, we should be able to go out to sea in a month or so this year, right?" Li Liang took over Liang's father's words and said.
"About that, just a month or so!" Liang's father replied.
Liang Ziqiang was in a hurry to make some "underwater dives" this time, and there was actually this reason.
If he wants to build a house this year, he will mainly depend on the income in the next few months. If he cannot save enough money to build a house in the near future, he will have to wait until March or April next year to save money.
While the fish have not all moved to the deep sea yet, we can save money faster by combining "bottom-of-the-sea fishing" with casting nets.
Of course, even in winter, he would find other ways to save some money so that he would not go bankrupt for the next four or five months.
When the sky was completely bright, the three boats had already arrived at the waters near Guanqi Island. They were not going to the island, but just wanted to see the silhouette of Guanqi Island from a distance and use it as a reference for the sea surface.
Liang Ziqiang, Li Liang and the other two slowed down the boat on the sea, picked up the seabed scraper on the boat and prepared to throw it into the sea.
"Wait, there seems to be some fish coming?"
Just not far from where they chose to cast the "undersea dive", the sun flashed, and two or three long and narrow fish flew out of the water and quickly fell back into the water.
By the time a few more fish leaped up, Liang Ziqiang could see clearly that they were the same bamboo swordfish that had once chased and blocked him.
Liang Zifeng also recognized it and exclaimed:
"Second brother, they have fallen into our trap again. They are so persistent!"
Liang Ziqiang rolled his eyes: "When you are talking nonsense, can you not be so serious!"
Liang Zifeng thought that the bamboo saury would once again face the fate of being despised by his second brother, but unexpectedly Liang Ziqiang had already grabbed the fishing net and headed towards the bamboo saury.
That day, it was late at night and we were in a hurry to get going, so of course we thought the saury was cheap. But since we came across it today, we didn't care whether it was cheap or not, and just cast the net.
Although only a few of them jumped out of the water, there was a large group swimming on the water surface at the same time.
After approaching the school of fish, he quickly threw the net out and watched it slowly sink.
He waited quietly, trying to let the net sink a little deeper. Because the saury seemed to be looking for food, there must be a lot of shrimps under the water. If the net sank a little deeper, it would be a school of fish and shrimps, killing two birds with one stone.
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While he was casting the net, Liang's father, Li Liang and others also acted quickly, targeting a section of the water and casting their fishing nets.
Liang Ziqiang waited for a long time, then began to collect the net and pull it up.
When the catch in the fishing net gradually floated to the surface and was pulled to the side of the boat, Liang Ziqiang let out a cry of surprise.
In the fishing net, half of it is indeed filled with slender bamboo swordfish, as well as some hair shrimps and white shrimps.
However, in the lower part of the net, there was another kind of silvery-white fish!
This fish has a short and tall body, flattened laterally, and a unique diamond shape. It has a small and slightly slanted mouth and no pelvic fins.
In appearance, it can be said that it is quite similar to the golden pomfret, but the colors are very different, one is light gold and the other is pure silver.
Silver pomfret!
There is only one letter difference between silver pomfret and golden pomfret, but silver pomfret is much rarer and more precious.
Golden pomfret is more common and usually lives in the warm and upper waters near the coast. It is good at jumping and swimming and usually feeds on small fish, diatoms and crustaceans. Last time, Liang Ziqiang and his son encountered a large group of golden pomfret swimming on the water surface.
Silver pomfret is a warm-water fish that lives in the middle and lower layers of the water. It often lives in deeper waters and likes to gather in the shadows. It only occasionally floats to the middle and upper layers of the water in the morning and evening. Usually, adult silver pomfret mainly feeds on jellyfish, benthic animals, and small fish and shrimps.
In terms of price, the silver pomfret is twice as expensive as the golden pomfret! The golden pomfret is 0.3 yuan, while the silver pomfret is more than 0.6 yuan.
It is precisely because silver pomfret swims in deep water most of the time, so there was a group of silver pomfret hiding under the boat, but Liang Ziqiang and his companions were completely unaware of it.
If they hadn't been catching saury just now, they would have missed the valuable silver pomfret underwater! Thinking that there might be more silver pomfret swimming in groups underwater, Liang Ziqiang told Liang Zifeng to cast the net quickly, and at the same time he quickly poured out the dozens of kilograms of saury and silver pomfret in the net, cleared the net, and cast it out again.
The target area is still where there are bamboo sauries. The reason for doing this is that it is impossible to determine where the silver pomfret is hiding underwater. We can only speculate that where bamboo sauries chase shrimps, silver pomfret may also be chasing shrimps underwater...
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