Chapter 233 An Unintentional Catch
After the spring flood began, Longjuling really felt like a constant stream of water.
At this moment, in the strait, there was another stream of fish passing by them. The group was not small, and was much larger than the stream of herring and six-line fish they encountered the day before.
But these schools of fish were ignored by them.
One of the reasons is that their established goal today is to install floating gillnets and cast them on the seabed, rather than staying here for a long time to cast nets for fishing.
The second reason is that the huge wave of fish in front of us is thorny barb, five-cent thorny barb…
Reason two accounts for 99 percent.
Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai originally wanted to start throwing seafloor breams into the water as soon as they came up, but when they saw such a large wave of thorny fish, they quickly withdrew their hands and stopped throwing.
If we throw this down, the seabed will be filled with spiny fish, and it would be a waste of time, as it would be no different from getting nothing at all.
Liang Ziqiang was also looking forward to the end of the gillnet season, because the constant flow of gillnetters was interfering with his placement of the floating gillnet.
But those who are disliked are often the largest in number.
Although it is a little more delicate than the wave of mullet encountered in winter, it is also spectacular and continuous.
Liang Ziqiang and three other men stood solemnly at the bow, escorting them with their eyes as they passed by in groups, until finally they all dispersed into the shallow sea.
The four of them decisively threw all their submarines into the vast waters near the reef.
Liang Ziqiang has six cards, Zhu Tianpeng has two cards, Li Liang has eight cards, and Deng Zhaocai has ten cards.
After releasing the seabed net, Liang Ziqiang drove the boat back to the cliff on the left side of the strait and looked for a place to tie the floating razor net.
Normally, to fix the gill net, very long stakes must be driven into the seabed, but Liang Ziqiang now uses a simpler method, simply tying one end directly to a stone or tree trunk at the bottom of the cliff on the left side of the island.
There were no suitable big trees at the foot of the cliff, but there were quite a few large columnar rocks.
He worked with Zhu Tianpeng and finally tied one end of the floating razor net to the columnar rock.
Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai's boat also came over and helped them shake off the upper and lower lines of the net. Holding the upper line, they drove the boat towards the other side of the cliff.
The structure of floating gillnet mainly includes upper gills, lower gills, and the net between the upper and lower gills.
The buoyancy of the upper float must be greater than the gravity of the lower sinker, which is a floating gill net.
On the other hand, there are bottom gill nets, which are specifically used to catch bottom and lower layer fish.
Together, the two boats stretched the long floating razor net to the foot of the cliff of the island on the right, and as usual, they found several towering columnar rocks and tied the other end of the net with ropes.
Obviously, the channel is not seventy meters wide, and the actual length of the net exceeds that by a little. The excess part is piled next to the cliff, which has no impact.
Except for the extra part, the rest of the net was spread vertically in the sea, leaving only the buoy at the top of the net, swaying close to the water surface.
If you look closely, you can see that the buoy extends straight along the water surface for dozens of meters, but if you look a little further away, you can hardly see any objects on the sea.
They originally wanted to wait until they had finished all this so that they would have time to cast a net and catch a few waves of fish. However, the sky was cloudy in the morning, but the sun began to come out at noon.
After waiting for a while and seeing no particularly valuable spring flood appear, the two boats did not delay any longer and turned around and left.
In fact, using large floating gillnets instead of fishing to deal with spring floods has another advantage, which is especially suitable for Liang Ziqiang at the moment, and that is saving time.
Now it is April, and mature prawns have begun to migrate back to the shallow sea from the deep sea. In addition to fishing to make money, Liang Ziqiang is also in a hurry to find prawn broodstock. He is already overwhelmed and is racing against time.
The time saved from spring fishing can, of course, be used to look for prawns.
Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai's boat went straight back to the shore. Liang Ziqiang saw that it was still early, just noon, so he immediately headed to other shallow sea areas to look for broodstock.
On the way, I made something to eat and had lunch with Zhu Tianpeng.
Scattered fish and shrimp began to appear on the sea surface, but sea vegetables such as camel hair and sea lettuce almost disappeared.
Occasionally, white mullets and gobies would emerge from the sea water, but Liang Ziqiang didn’t have much motivation to cast the net and chose to continue driving forward to look for traces of shrimps.
“Finally the shrimps are here!”
Liang Ziqiang returned to the cabin and drove the boat. After a while, Zhu Tianpeng's voice came from the bow.
Liang Ziqiang also walked out of the cabin quickly, and saw a large group of small figures drifting towards this side under the waves on the sea seven or eight meters away.
It is small in size, and it is a shrimp, but I am not sure what kind of shrimp it is.
As soon as I got closer, I was disappointed.
"Hair shrimps? It's better to catch the whitebait and goby in front!" Zhu Tianpeng shook his head.
In fact, hair shrimps are the most numerous. If you really encounter a shrimp season in ordinary shallow seas, the probability of finding hair shrimps is very high.
"Do you want to catch any? I used to go out to sea with them. When there was nothing to catch, we would sometimes catch hair shrimps!" asked Zhu Tianpeng.
"Forget it, don't waste time. It's more important to find the prawns. After a while, it will be time for the prawns to lay eggs!"
During April, he must find enough prawn broodstock. If he can't find any, he can only spend money to buy shrimp fry from the shrimp farm.
In that case, on the one hand, a large amount of extra expenses would have to be incurred; on the other hand, the scale of shrimp farming is not that large these days, and it may not be easy to find a shrimp hatchery for artificial breeding.
The two continued to search for a while, and Liang Ziqiang changed his mind:
"It's still too difficult to encounter a prawn season on the sea. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Why don't we look for it near some islands?"
The downside of looking for shrimp near an island is that even if there are shrimp, they won't be as numerous as during a large shrimp season. The upside is that shrimp prefer to live near island beaches, so no matter how many there are, you'll definitely find some.
Liang Ziqiang thought of Xiangluo Island. Last year, he found that there were obviously more shrimps on Xiangluo Island than on Guanqi Island. It might be that the environment on Xiangluo Island was more attractive for shrimps to come and reproduce and live.
Gradually, the lotus pattern boat arrived at Xiangluo Island. Thinking about it carefully, I haven't been to Xiangluo Island for more than four months, almost five months, throughout the winter and early spring.
On the rocks at the edge of Xiangluo Island, you can see some more snails, mussels, and clams emerging. There are not many of them, but they are attached to the rocks, as if the rocks are sprouting, and these bud-like creatures are announcing the arrival of warm spring.
Mussels and clams are not valuable, but the prices of ox-eye snails and horseshoe conchs are not bad. Liang Ziqiang is not in the mood to care about these now.
He decided to look for some shrimps first, and if there was still time left, he would search the sea and pick up some horseshoe snails and the like from the rocks.
We sailed along the waters surrounding Xiangluo Island, slowly circling the island as if on a tour around the island.
After a while, the shrimps really appeared.
This time, Liang Ziqiang didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed.
Because what floated in the seawater at the bow was a small group of slippery shrimps! Slippery shrimps are much more valuable than hairy shrimps. Last year, they were already 70 cents per pound, and this year they should have increased slightly.
Although finding broodstock for prawns is the top priority, we can’t refuse the money that comes right to our door…
Liang Ziqiang slowed down the boat and immediately cast the net with Zhu Tianpeng, catching a wave of slippery shrimps.
There were two extra-large basins on the boat. After the nets were pulled up, the shrimps inside were not poured into the large basins.
He bought the big basin specifically to hold the prawns to prevent them from being mixed with other fish and shrimps.
The slippery shrimps were poured directly onto the boat deck. After pouring them out, two more nets were cast. It is true that even if you plant flowers intentionally, they do not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they grow into shade trees.
Today we had quite a good harvest of these valuable slippery shrimps!
Burst
(End of this chapter)
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