Chapter 188 The valuable fish season has finally arrived
The toothfish, also known as the tooth flounder, is a type of flatfish.
The body of this fish is extremely flat and asymmetrical. The skin on the side with the eye is dark gray or has patchy patterns, while the skin on the side without the eye is white.
In the South China Sea, the flatfish with its eye on the left side is called "flounder", and the other type with the eye on the right side is called flounder.
The fish is rich in gelatin and tastes good. The gelatin around the fins and under the skin is especially rich, and many customers particularly like to eat the fish head.
Wild toothfish like this one, when steamed or stewed, has fish meat similar to crab meat, which is in the form of silk threads. Of course, the farmed toothfish of later generations cannot achieve this taste.
In terms of price, this fish is naturally much more expensive than the green mullet I bought in the morning. Green mullet is about 1.5 yuan, while toothfish is generally around 40 yuan.
Of course, it is difficult to encounter fish seasons of the scale and density like those of the black carp and the bluefin bream again.
Each of these toothfish in front of me weighs about 70 to 80 kilograms. When they are pulled up and poured onto the deck, they are like pieces of paper being thrown up one by one.
Most of the fish were tucked with the eye side facing up, but quite a few were flipped over during the dumping with the white side facing up.
So, it's like a pile of gray paper and white paper mixed together, with sharp contrast in colors.
The four of them were sweating in the cold weather. Liang Ziqiang noticed that Li Liang didn't even wipe the sweat off his forehead with a towel, and he didn't stop to drink water or take a breath between each net.
This unprecedented enthusiasm is a bit like a workaholic. Maybe this is the legendary "people are in high spirits when they are happy." Or maybe this guy just wants to save more money, after all, betrothal gifts, wedding banquets, everything costs money.
After the winter season of cutlassfish, we encountered a small group of cutlassfish again, but it was far less large than the one a few days ago and was rather sparse.
After all, the weather has become a bit colder, and most of the cutlassfish must have completed their migration to the deep sea in recent days. The small group in front of us is the one that is lagging behind among the cutlassfish.
Liang Ziqiang caught several dozen kilograms of hairtail in total after fishing in several nets.
After catching a small number of hairtails, Liang Ziqiang estimated that there would not be any more valuable fish today, so he collected the net and prepared to return to shore.
"Brother, what is this kind of fish called? It seems like you have caught it before! Unfortunately, there are not many. Do you want a net?"
Liang Zifeng noticed that several yellow-brown fish were swimming under the boat and immediately asked Liang Ziqiang.
"Where is it?" Liang Ziqiang didn't pay much attention because he was closing in his net.
After hearing what Ah Feng said, he walked out again and looked at the boat. After seeing clearly, he immediately raised the net again: "Of course we have to catch it! This is a six-line fish, even if there are only one or two, we have to catch it!"
As soon as he said this, the net in his hand had already fallen out.
When they were pulled up quickly, there were actually more than expected, not just one or two, but five or six.
This fish is also called Otaki six-line fish. It is brown with a hint of yellow. Its body is elongated and flattened, like a spindle. The dorsal edge has a small curvature and the middle of the dorsal side is slightly concave. There are six vertical stripes on the sides of the fish. Some fish have no stripes but gray-brown cloud-like stripes.
Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang had caught this fish before when they were fishing for white foam at the seawall. They were very happy when they only caught one or two at that time, and they were of course happy to catch so many now.
The price of 70 cents per pound is not low!
"Is this considered a fishing season? There are so few fish, it doesn't look like a winter season!" Liang Zifeng asked.
"Of course not. If it weren't for the fishing season, six-line fish usually like to hide in the reefs or seaweed piles, so there wouldn't be so many of them floating out of the water!"
In fact, the Otaki six-line fish is a typical near-shore bottom-dwelling reef-loving fish. It likes to live in reef areas and places with lush marine plants. It is unlikely to surface in groups to swim far away.
Not all fish seasons are called fish seasons when there are large numbers of fish like those of bluefin mullet and hairtail.
Fish like the bigeye fish are reef-loving and there are not that many of them in the ocean. When they all swim towards the deep sea at the same time, even if they are sparse, it is still a winter flood.
After casting the net, the number of six-line fish on the water surface actually increased. This also proved that the seemingly loose school of six-line fish in front of us was indeed a less obvious winter flood.
These fish did not head straight for their wintering grounds, but after discovering the reefs of Longjuling, they drilled into the reefs in twos and threes.
Perhaps it is because they have a natural love for reefs, or it may be that the reefs in Longjuling contain their favorite food.
This stay slowed down their departure speed greatly. The two boats almost kept circling the reef and did not chase them towards the deep sea, but they still caught most of the fish.
Although there were only seven or eight or ten fish in each net, little by little they accumulated over time and gradually they caught about seventy or eighty kilograms of fish.
This fish has a slightly stronger ability to adapt to cold. Only when the temperature drops again and again and it can no longer bear it will it start swimming to the deep sea.
The toothfish that were previously available online were of similar nature.
This is also the reason why we did not encounter toothfish and big six-line fish in Longjuling a few days ago, but encountered these two kinds of fish this time.
Liang Ziqiang only hopes that when the weather continues to get colder in a while, he will have the opportunity to encounter toothfish and six-line fish here.
It was getting late, and the two boats had made a good catch today, so they decided not to fight any longer and immediately packed up their nets and went home.
Today the boat returned to shore a little later than usual.
After the boat stopped, I looked up at the shore and saw a figure walking on the road, carrying a bottle of wine.
It was Lin Baixian’s father who was like a drunkard.
Liang Ziqiang was silent for a while. Seeing that Lin's father looked drunk, it was obvious that Lin Baixian had wasted another day and was unable to go out to sea.
I don't know what Lin Baixian is doing at home. Has the news about Li Liang and Yuan Xiaomei reached his ears? After thinking about it, Liang Ziqiang even felt that the reason why the Yuan family decisively chose Li Liang instead of Lin Baixian was that Yuan Xiaomei herself might have a better feeling for Li Liang, and the bad impression of Yuan Xiaomei's parents on Lin's father should also be one of the main reasons.
Liang Ziqiang thought about whether he should go to Lin Baixian's house to comfort him, but then he decided not to do so for the time being. Rushing over there in such a hurry would seem like he was going there to deliver bad news.
This time, he and Liang Zifeng each held a bamboo winnowing basket and used it to shovel the fish into the cart.
The brand new cart I bought in town last time was used for the first time today.
Transport the relatively valuable fish first.
The more valuable toothfish filled an entire cart. The even more valuable bigeye mackerel was placed in baskets tied to the side of the cart.
He asked Liang Zifeng to push the cart to the purchasing point first, and he loaded a load of toothfish in a basket and then carried it to the purchasing point.
Later, they made several trips back and forth to transport the bluefin croaker and hairtail to Zheng Liu one by one.
Fortunately, he had parked the boat directly at the big pier, which was very close to the purchase point. After a few round trips, it didn't take too long.
There are quite a few types of fish today, with the most abundant being bluefin bream, but there are also two valuable fish. Overall, today's winter harvest is still good.
Two chapters have been posted in the early morning. Happy reading, fellow readers!
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