The second grouper had just come to the surface, and there was a landing net waiting for it nearby.
Before the creature could even react, the net came crashing down on its head, and it was lifted into the air, flying away from the home where it had lived since it was a kitten.
A few seconds later, a large hand clamped down on its head and removed the fishhook from its mouth.
"Xiao Yu, you're really lucky! The first one was a grouper, and the second one is a red grouper, and a big one weighing five or six pounds! You're on your way to getting rich!"
"Keep it down, I just got lucky. The best ones are Brother Li and you guys. If you hadn't brought us here fishing, I wouldn't have had the chance to catch such good stuff!"
Everyone flatters Li Ge, and Bai Yu will naturally return the compliment; this is called mutual flattery in business.
"Xiaoyu, what are you going to do with this grouper? Should you bleed it and then refrigerate it, or keep it in the live fish hold for now?"
"Brother Li, do you have any suggestions?"
"If you ask me, the safest method is definitely low-temperature refrigeration, which will not affect the price of these seafoods."
However, if you want to earn more, or if you can catch more of these good fish later, raising them first is also a good option.
However, the choice is ultimately yours. I'll just tell you the pros and cons of each option.
After Li Ge finished speaking, Bai Yu thought about it for a moment and decided to refrigerate it at a low temperature. After all, the previous grouper had been refrigerated, so this East Star Grouper should keep the grouper company.
Then, Brother Li quickly and skillfully processed the grouper. Just like with the previous grouper, he put each fish in a box and sent it to the freezer for storage.
At this time of year, some inquisitive people will ask questions, such as what is the most basic way to handle sea fish like grouper and mouse grouper after they are caught.
The most basic way to process fish is to bleed it. For high-end sea fish, the blood is the substance that most easily affects the quality of the fish meat.
Is it possible to refrigerate a live grouper without bleeding it? Of course, that's fine. However, grouper stored in this way will not be able to sell for several hundred yuan per kilogram.
However, nothing is absolute. For example, you can fool some people who don't know anything about it, and maybe someone will actually buy this kind of grouper.
You asked how Bai Yu knew about this?
That's obvious. Don't you even know where Bai Yu is from? She grew up in Sanya, where countless tourists from all over the country visit every day.
It's not unusual for this to happen. Besides, there are also cases of farmed seafood being passed off as wild, where you choose one type of seafood but are served a completely different one. There are so many such cases that you can't even count them all.
This is the simplest way to process it. A slightly more refined method is to process the gills and internal organs together.
This method of processing sea fish can preserve the original texture of the fish to the greatest extent. The only drawback is that it is slightly lighter than live seafood.
After all, the fish blood and internal organs have been removed, which will definitely affect the weight of the fish. However, the price will not increase at all; it will remain the same as the price of a live fish.
This refers to the difference between refrigerated and live fish.
Brother Li's approach was naturally a one-step solution: bleeding out the internal organs all at once.
After all, rat spots and star spots are relatively expensive, so their treatment cannot be taken lightly; it must be done thoroughly in one go.
If it's a bullhead or a demon head knife, then the process is much easier. You just need to bleed it out, and you don't need to worry about the internal organs. Anyway, it won't affect the price.
With the grouper brought into the cabin, the fishing trip for Bai Yu and his three companions went much more smoothly, with fish being caught one after another.
Among them, there were a lot of grouper. It's unclear whether they disturbed the grouper's nest, but in the next hour, Bai Yu caught four grouper.
And among these four groupers, there was even a red grouper! Can you believe it? Red groupers, which are usually hard to come by, were being caught one after another.
Besides him, Wang Hai and his two companions also made some gains, the biggest of which was Niu Gang.
The fish that Li Shuang exclaimed about when Bai Yu caught his first grouper was a 20-pound oxtail.
Niu Gang is a type of trevally. When Li Shuang saw this big fish, he thought it was some kind of valuable sea fish.
Who knew that in the end it was all for nothing, this thing was just a worthless cattle harbor.
As the time approached nine o'clock, the number of people near the stern of Bai Yu's boat increased once again, and these newly arrived fishermen were naturally acquaintances of Bai Yu and his group.
One of them is Wang Xu, who got seasick last night. He was seasick all night, but his condition has improved significantly now.
As soon as he arrived at the fishing spot at the stern of the boat, he shouted that he wanted to show off his skills and catch a big fish for Bai Yu and the others to see.
In Wang Xu's opinion, the sea fish that Bai Yu and his team caught were all too small, mostly weighing less than ten pounds. Fishing such small fish was not challenging at all.
However, when they saw Wang Xu put the lure on the fishing hook, to be honest, Bai Yu was stunned. She was really stunned, staring blankly at Wang Xu without any reaction.
This is not to say that lures cannot be used for sea fishing, but the lure that Wang Xu took out was a frog lure, a frog lure used to catch snakehead!
You said he kept saying he wanted to catch big fish, but he actually used a frog lure to fish. Isn't that a bit too disrespectful to big fish, or too much of a compliment to the frog lure?
So, can frog lures be used for sea fishing? The answer is definitely yes. In theory, any type of bait can be used for sea fishing; the only difference is whether you can catch any fish.
However, if you're thinking of using a frog carp to catch a giant fish, I suggest you forget about it. This kind of thing probably only happens in dreams. The chances of it happening in reality are extremely small.
So before Wang Xu could cast his line, Bai Yu decisively stopped him.
After some investigation, Bai Yu finally learned that Wang Xu, the fishing expert, did know how to fish, but he had never done sea fishing before.
His previous experience was just fishing for freshwater fish. The biggest fish he caught was a grass carp weighing 39.4 jin (approximately 14.6 catties) that he caught in a commercial fishing pond.
Look how clearly he remembers the weight of this bluefish, down to the last two ounces.
After Bai Yu gave him a brief explanation, Wang Xu hooked a shrimp onto his fishing hook and cast his first ever sea fishing line.
Given Wang Xu's situation, it's unclear whether he'll even have a newbie protection period.
Just as Bai Yu was teaching Wang Xu how to fish, his own fishing rod caught a fish again. A few minutes later, Bai Yu pulled up a pearl grouper with the fishing line, and then another grouper.
Groupers, which are rarely seen in the past, are now biting the hook relentlessly, and you can't stop them no matter what you do.
Bai Yu was naturally very happy about this situation.
It's already the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls in June on the Gregorian calendar. This time of year is typically the fishing ban period.
When the fishing ban season arrives, Bai Yu knows all too well what that means: seafood prices will skyrocket. Any seafood that can be brought back to the dock will fetch a very good price.
Grouper, in particular, is a very sought-after seafood, and its price will be even higher during the fishing ban period. This means that the more grouper the white fishermen catch, the more money they can earn on this trip.
How could Bai Yu not be happy?
Fishing at sea during the closed season is within the bounds of the law. As long as the fishermen do not use any fishing nets to catch fish, there is no problem.
As it approached 11 a.m., Bai Yu carried a bullhead tuna towards the cabin.
This bullhead trevally was just caught by him. This type of fish has only one characteristic: it's huge. Bullhead trevally are particularly large; almost none that are caught weigh less than five pounds.
They usually weigh ten or twenty kilograms, and some even weigh more than that, with tens or hundreds of kilograms being common.
The bullhead trevally that Bai Hao was holding weighed eleven or twelve pounds, and it took Bai Yu more than ten minutes to catch it.
Bai Yu originally thought it would be a large grouper, but who would have thought it would turn out to be a bullhead trevally.
After scooping the creature onto the deck, Bai Yu immediately decided on its final destination: to send it to the kitchen for their lunch treat.
Also, let Wang Xu and the others understand why there are so many of these large, easy-to-catch sea fish, such as the bullhead trevally.
That's right, the bullhead trevally is a very easy sea fish to catch; it's basically a sea fish that every angler has caught.
If you've never caught a bullhead trevally while fishing in the South China Sea, you can't really say you've been out to sea.
Despite being so easy to catch, this sea fish is still abundant in the South China Sea, to the point that it frightens many anglers.
Would anyone believe it if I told someone that a fisherman is terrified of a certain type of sea fish?
After taking the bull mackerel to the kitchen and letting the chef prepare it as he pleased, Bai Yu ordered some braised dishes. He had used up too much energy fishing that day and desperately needed some meat and vegetables to replenish his strength.
This braised dish was made by the chef this morning. Bai Yu had been smelling the aroma of the braised meat all morning while he was fishing on the deck.
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