Chapter 238: Casting a Net on the Enemy
The largest number was black sea bream, which weighed 31.3 jin.
Black sea bream is 60 cents per pound, totaling 18.78 yuan.
Then there were quite a few bull dung sea breams, about 10.2 jin, which cost one dollar and twenty cents per jin, totaling twelve dollars and twenty-four cents.
The least was the spotted bream, which I caught with a hand net. But it was expensive, and I bargained with Zheng Liu for a long time and finally got three yuan per catty. Although it was still cheaper than Yuehai, it was already the highest price for Zheng Liu.
This one weighs one pound and eight ounces, and is worth five dollars and forty cents alone.
In addition, there were some small abalones, some of which I kept for my family to eat, and only 4.6 jin was brought over to sell. This kind of small abalone is only 60 cents per jin, and I sold it for 2.76 yuan.
All the fish caught today totaled thirty-nine dollars and eighteen cents.
He paid Zhu Tianpeng three yuan as a labor fee, and he had thirty-six yuan left.
The boat of my father and elder brother caught almost the same amount of fish, except that they caught one less valuable grouper than him, which was also worth more than thirty dollars.
When he got home, Chen Xiangbei was still concerned about the shrimp fry and asked him whether he had caught any broodstock during his trip out today.
"We caught some by casting the net, but it's not enough. If the weather is good tomorrow, we'll have to continue looking. If we visit a few more islands, we'll definitely find enough broodstock!"
After saying this, he took out the money he had on him:
"Today we not only caught prawns, but also some fish. We sold them for more than thirty dollars. By the way, there are some small abalone and conch left in the bucket. You should eat less conch, but abalone is very good to eat. You should make more!"
Including these thirty plus, there are now more than eight hundred and thirty in the box.
In the evening, Liang Ziqiang planned that if the weather was still sunny and hot tomorrow, he would continue to go to the sea and the islands to look for shrimps.
If it is cloudy and the temperature drops, go to Longjuling to see the condition of the large floating thorn nets deployed there.
As a result, the next day, the sun rose earlier than him, and it was obviously another sunny day.
Just like yesterday, the father and his two sons, plus Zhu Tianpeng, continued to head to the sea in two boats, looking for small islands suitable for shrimp spawning.
The first island we found today was full of common clams, mussels, and mullets, as well as returning gobies and bluefin bream.
Both clams and fish were quite common and could not be sold at a high price. After they went to the island to have a look around, they lost much interest.
I would be interested in fishing on the shore, but I don’t really like clams, mussels and the like when I go out to sea.
However, the islands scattered in the sea are mostly where the most common seafood is gathered. This is one of the reasons why fishermen are usually unwilling to waste diesel money and go through a lot of trouble to find small islands.
In his previous life, Liang Ziqiang had heard about several treasure-level uninhabited islands with particularly rich resources in the news. However, they were mixed among the more than 200 islands and were not easy to find.
And it is very likely that the more abundant the island is, the more remote it is, and even the closer it is to the deep sea. In fact, the villagers cannot go there with their current conditions.
The second island they continued to search for today still did not have any valuable seafood, but to their delight, they found a large number of blue clams on the island beach.
Although blue clams are not as valuable as flower clams, they have special meaning to them. Like yesterday's sandworms and thin shells, this thing is one of the natural baits for prawns.
So, they bent over and picked up several snakeskin bags of blue clams on the island. Even if there was no water in the bags, the blue clams could survive for a short time, and they could just rush back in the afternoon and put them back into the pond in time.
After searching two small islands without finding any trace of prawns, everyone was a little disappointed and continued to look for the next wild island.
Two wooden boats were sailing on the vast sea. Apart from them, no other fishing boats had come to this place. Between the sea and the sky, the two boats looked very small.
After driving for a while, the third island still did not appear. Several people looked towards the sea and exclaimed in unison: "So many shrimps!"
They saw a red mist in the sea ahead, spreading towards them.
At first, they couldn't see clearly what the dust-like particles in the red fog were, but soon the "red fog" spread to the water surface under their boat, so they recognized it at a glance: it was a school of shrimp.
But this shrimp is much smaller than the common shrimps in the sea. It is almost the same size as the Artemia, and is only about one centimeter long.
Such tiny shrimps were definitely not the prawns they were looking for. Prawns are several times larger than them, and the plump ones can be more than ten times larger.
"These are krill! They must have swam over from the deep sea." Father Liang looked at the growing number of krill and spoke.
He was right. This tiny shrimp, which is much smaller than hair shrimp, is called krill.
Smaller than shrimp, and shaped similarly to shrimp, but in fact, krill is not a shrimp.
The most common distribution of this thing is in Antarctica. Antarctic krill is the common food of almost all animals in Antarctica.
There are also krill in the South China Sea, which are slightly different from Antarctic krill.
Normally, krill in the South China Sea are more likely to be found in the deep sea, occasionally appearing in shallow waters, and fishermen do not catch them very often.
After all, people in this era don't eat krill very much. There are many seafoods that are more suitable to eat than krill.
Even hair shrimp are more popular than krill.
At this moment, four people were standing at the bow, and none of them had any intention of casting the net.
They were like a few spectators. The red array of krill was magnificent, and in the process of smudge and diffusion, some places were dense and some places were loose.
The color is very dark in dense areas, and very light in sparse areas.
A large red cloud composed of thousands of lives was reflected in different shades, performing a silent montage in the sea. The four of them seemed to be frozen in the sea, watching the montage pass by their feet indifferently.
I don't know when the krill army in the water changed. Amidst the deep red and light red, a stream of blue suddenly appeared.
Just like a wisp of green smoke suddenly rising in the rolling red dust.
This wisp of green smoke tore a hole in the endless red dust, and then tore the red dust into two halves.
The "green smoke" is still gathering and rising above the water.
Liang Ziqiang and the other three on the boat were first surprised, then excited, and then a feeling of excitement rose from their chests.
"Prawns! It's the shrimps that are collectively preying on krill!" Liang Ziqiang couldn't help shouting.
"That's right, it's a school of prawns. We've been looking for the island for half a day, but unexpectedly we found it here!" Liang's father confirmed.
The blue-green ones are the prawns.
Unlike the pink color of krill, most prawns are transparent blue-green.
In terms of size, large prawns can be more than ten centimeters long, which is seven to eight times, or even ten times, larger than the tiny krill.
At this moment, there are fewer shrimps and more krill below the water surface, but the shrimps are like a dagger stabbing directly into the krill army.
Big shrimps eat small shrimps, and prawns are preying on krill like crazy!
None of the four needed any instructions. After recognizing that they were prawns, they all picked up their fishing nets and cast them down below.
The fishing net was ambitious, covering the water, as if trying to catch the changing red cloud in the water, or chasing the drifting green smoke.
In theory, the most important thing to avoid when catching broodstock is to mix other different shrimp species together, because there is almost no way to screen and distinguish them one by one. Farmed prawns will become farmed mixed shrimps.
But at this time, they were all very relieved and just needed to cast their nets freely.
Since krill and prawns are caught together, they can be put into the shrimp pond together. The shrimp fry and shrimp food are all caught in the same net, which is very convenient...
Two chapters have been posted in the early morning. Happy reading, fellow readers! Seeing the rewards, monthly tickets, and recommendation tickets from fellow readers, I feel ashamed that I haven't been able to update more. The time spent on "quality" is indeed more than the time spent on "quantity". I will try to write more and update more in a few days. Thank you again! (End of this chapter)
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