Yellow croaker?
Ye Xiaocui picked up the fish beside her and took a closer look. Sure enough, it was a yellow croaker, which was more precious than the large yellow croaker.
The yellow croaker has an elongated body that appears somewhat flat from the side. Its back is slightly convex, its head is medium-sized, and its body is pale yellow with a silvery-white belly. Because of its yellow color, Ye Xiaocui initially mistook it for a large yellow croaker.
However, unlike the large yellow croaker, which grows to a maximum of about 50 centimeters, the adult yellow croaker is about one to two meters long. Moreover, the yellow croaker has a distinctive feature: a circular black spot under its pectoral fin armpit.
Moreover, the yellow croaker generally lives in waters 50 to 60 meters deep. It has very high nutritional value and is one of the fish species unique to China. (Image of yellow croaker, please delete if infringing copyright). In the 1980s, the yellow croaker population in China was quite large. Due to its high nutritional value, the yellow croaker was designated a Class I protected animal in China in 2005. Since then, most yellow croakers on the market have been artificially farmed.
The reason why the yellow croaker is so valuable is not only because of its delicious meat, but also because of its swim bladder, also known as fish maw.
The swim bladder of the yellow croaker has very high medicinal value. It can not only nourish the liver and kidneys, but its effects are comparable to ginseng. Especially in the 1980s when medical supplies were scarce, the swim bladder of the yellow croaker was said to have a great medicinal effect on postpartum hemorrhage in women.
However, processing and drying the fish swim bladders is quite troublesome. Looking at these golden yellow croakers, Fu Wan decided to take one out and keep the swim bladder at home just in case.
Don't be fooled by the fact that there's only one fish; the yellow croaker is much larger than the yellow croaker, with each one being about a meter long. You can only catch two or three yellow croakers in a hand-thrown net.
As for those yellow croakers that were less than half a meter long and clearly still juveniles, Fu Wan took them all off the fishing net, checked them for any wounds, and then put them back into the sea.
Only by taking things in moderation can we achieve long-term success.
The two boats had a total of eight hand-thrown nets, and in the end, six yellow croakers were left, each weighing about ten pounds, so the total weight was less than one hundred pounds.
However, this is already a very good result.
Looking at the several baskets of yellow croaker, Boss Fu couldn't help but sigh, "The last time I saw yellow croaker was decades ago when I was a boatman at the dock. This yellow croaker is really good. We've really made a fortune on this trip."
However, he was a reasonable person. He knew that yellow croakers were mostly active at night, and the fact that his family was able to catch them in the net around four or five in the afternoon was thanks to the killer whales. They must have driven the yellow croakers up from the seabed.
"Ah Wan, we were able to catch so many yellow croakers thanks to these killer whales!"
"I feel bad for the kindness they've shown us. Is there anything we can give them in return?"
Fu Wan stared blankly at the orcas chasing and playing on the sea. People say that orcas are the street urchins of the sea, but in her opinion, these guys are much more innocent than humans.
But when she thought about what she could do for these orcas, she really couldn't think of anything. Maybe she could get them some food, since they can eat whatever they want in the sea.
All she could do was promise to appear without hesitation when the orca needed her.
As Fu Wan's mind raced, the calls of the orca pod grew closer. She snapped out of her daze and noticed that another manta ray, visible to the naked eye, was floating on the surface of the water. It looked even bigger than the one she and Fu Ming had fought on the seabed before.
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