Chapter 470: Sustainable Ways to Make Money
After the weather turned cooler, the earliest winter flood had begun. There were not many other fish, but fish that were relatively intolerant of cold, such as hairtail, conger eel, yellow croaker, squid, and octopus, had begun to gather in their wintering grounds.
As more reliable personnel grew up, Liang Ziqiang purchased two more boats in the past six months, including a 32-meter seafood collection boat.
Including the four ships in front, namely Ziqiang and Fuqiang, there are a total of six large steel ships operating together in the wintering fishing grounds.
Among them are four pelagic trawlers, one bottom tugboat and one freshwater collection vessel.
The fresh catch boat is called "Yuanqiang" and is driven by Liang Ziqiang himself. Now, after the other five boats have hauled fish and shrimp, they no longer need to go back to the county town to sell the fish. Instead, they only need to transfer the fish to the "Yuanqiang" fresh catch boat at the wintering grounds.
After all the catches of the five boats were gathered on the Yuanqiang, Liang Ziqiang drove the Yuanqiang to the county fishing port and sold them in bulk.
In this way, the other five trawlers can continue to stay in the wintering fishing grounds to fish, and there is no problem of who needs to stay alone on duty, and a lot of fuel costs for repeated round trips are also saved.
On the other hand, all the fish were delivered to Liang Ziqiang for unified shipment, and all transactions became simpler, and there was no possibility of any ship withholding payment. Although this problem had never occurred before, it was because the scale was limited and several captains were reliable candidates. In the long run, the new operation method was more appropriate.
Li Liang and Lin Baixian have worked hard in the past six months, from being an ordinary crew member to a first mate, and then to a captain. They have worked hard and learned a lot. Now they are both independent, one driving a bottom tugboat and the other driving a mid- and upper-level trawler.
Judging from the situation at the beginning of this year, the amount of fish and shrimp in the wintering fishing grounds is as considerable as ever. As captains, Li Liang and Axian will surely get a lot of money.
Five days later, the five ships including the Ziqiang and Fuqiang continued to operate in the wintering fishing grounds. If they needed to rest, they would stay there for a day or two. If any crew members really wanted to go home to rest, they would return to shore on Liang Ziqiang's seafood collection boat.
Liang Ziqiang drove the Yuanqiang fish-collecting boat, loaded with fish from five large ships, to the county fishing port.
All the catches from the five boats were gathered here, and it took half a day just to unload the fish. The seven crew members on the Yuanqiang, plus the guys from Weipan's purchasing point, all volunteered to help on board and were busy moving the fish, otherwise it would have taken even longer.
As they sat down to drink tea, Wei Pan smiled and said:
"Boss Liang, look, I've been telling you that as your business grows, you'll need a freshwater ship sooner or later. Now, isn't it much more convenient?"
Seeing that Liang Ziqiang was selling more and more deep-sea fish to him, while Lao Xiao's purchasing station only ordered a small amount, Wei Pan was of course very happy. Now, seeing Liang Ziqiang was like seeing the God of Wealth coming over.
"It's more convenient." Liang Ziqiang took a sip of tea and said, "I'll come over in a few days. It's time to sell the snappers and groupers I raise."
"Yes, the snappers and groupers have been raised for a long time now, and they are probably quite big now!" Wei Pan was quite looking forward to it.
In fact, Liang Ziqiang has been catching a batch of snappers and groupers from the nameless island every one or two months over the past six months to sell, and each time the size of the fish is larger than the previous ones.
Now the earliest batch of fish fry have been raised for a year and a half and are already quite plump.
Of course, if you really want to keep grouper for a long time, you can keep it for ten or eight years. If the environment is suitable, it is theoretically possible to raise a "giant grouper".
But Liang Ziqiang did the math and decided that he should keep the baby for a year and a half, or at most two to three years. It might not be cost-effective for him to extend the period too long.
After all, there are new fish fry and new cages constantly replenished. If the old ones are not sold, new ones will not arrive.
"The responses from those who bought the goods have been pretty good so far, right?" Liang Ziqiang asked.
"The reactions were not all positive. Some people also scolded us," Wei Pan laughed, "They scolded us for being slow in shipping. This amount of grouper was not enough for them to digest!"
It can be called an insult, but in fact it is equivalent to the market's high recognition of his farmed grouper.
“Good things can’t be sold too widely all at once. They have to be high-quality products. If I expand the scale blindly, the quantity will increase, but the taste will be the same as those farmed in ponds. They will scold me again!” Liang Ziqiang also laughed.
"Yes, speaking of grouper farmed in ponds, the farmer in Jinhao Town is also asking about you!" Wei Pan said, suddenly remembering something.
"Jinhao Town? The farmer who used the village pond to raise grouper? What did he ask about me?"
Liang Ziqiang certainly knew about the breeders in Jinhao Town. He had heard Du Ziteng mention it before, saying that the grouper raised in Jinhao Town's ponds had a big difference in appearance, but the taste was so different that Yuehai Restaurant was unwilling to buy that fish anymore.
"He asked me if the taste of the deep-sea farmed grouper could really compare to the wild one. It couldn't be as miraculous as everyone said. He also asked where Boss Liang had learned any farming techniques. I heard people say that it seemed that few people were willing to buy his goods now, and even if he lowered the price, it was still not selling well. So he came to me again to sell his goods, but I didn't want his because his grouper tasted really bad. There was nothing I could do about it!" Wei Pan revealed.
Liang Ziqiang thought that the farmer in Jinhao Town must be worried to death now. At first, high-end restaurants like Du Ziteng despised it, but now in the past six months, even ordinary merchants have begun to favor Liang Ziqiang's grouper and despise his goods. It's really not that they don't know the goods, but they are afraid of comparing the goods.
"He's right. I must have asked an expert in the city for advice on breeding techniques. Otherwise, how could I raise good grouper if I just messed around?" Liang Ziqiang said vaguely. After that, he asked, "By the way, Jinhao Town is also an old breeder, right? I think it's a little earlier than mine, right?"
"I know this. He was earlier than you, but not by much. Being a year or two earlier than you doesn't mean he has more experience. I think he just hasn't found the right way. He uses ponds to raise grouper just for the sake of convenience and trouble. That won't work!" Wei Pan shook his head and sighed, "Some lazy ideas are better not to be implemented!"
The two chatted for a while, and Liang Ziqiang got up and said goodbye.
Domestic aquaculture has only been popular in the past few years, but because of this, the market is in short supply. In theory, if the aquaculture is a little better, there will be no worries about sales. Liang Ziqiang does not think that his grouper has taken away other people's business, but can only say that the aquaculture farmer in Jinhao Town did not take the right path.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had chosen the unique pure wild island environment of Wuming Island for breeding. Now it seems that the market is very receptive.
Even if the marine fishery resources are exhausted one day in the future, I can continue to make money, remain standing, and even expand my business...
(End of this chapter)
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