Although anglerfish are a bit ugly and the price is a bit low, that doesn't stop them from being the sacred fish in Bai Yu's mind at a certain point in his life.
As for the reason, it is naturally its delicious taste. Especially when monkfish is braised, you can't tell what it originally looked like, only its delicious taste remains.
In addition, it is very cheap. When he was a child, monkfish was a regular on his family's dining table. Both his father and mother were very good at cooking monkfish.
Bai Yu had already made arrangements for how to handle this anglerfish.
He immediately asked Brother Li to take the prepared monkfish to the kitchen, saying he would use it as an extra dish for lunch tomorrow.
Bai Yu then fished on the deck for a while longer, until after 11 p.m., before finally packing up and returning to the crew quarters to rest.
As for Li Shuang and the others, they didn't have much time to catch the skipjack tuna. The school of skipjack tuna on the sea lasted for about half an hour before drifting away with the dead fish carcasses.
Without the bonito, Li Shuang and the others had no choice but to rejoin the fishing, and also packed up their lines and prepared to rest at 11 p.m.
That night, Bai Yu's fish catch wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't too bad either.
In summary, there were gains, but not many.
The main problem was that there weren't many sea fish before. Can you believe that Bai Yu used mackerel as bait and was aiming for big fish on the seabed, but he actually managed to catch a ribbonfish from the seabed?
It's absolutely outrageous that a ribbonfish that weighs less than the bait was caught by Bai Yu!
Although Bai Yu suffered no loss, the mackerel used as bait only had a piece of its flesh bitten off, which did not affect its continued use as bait.
But Bai Yu just felt speechless.
In fact, Bai Yu's speechlessness had only just begun; the most speechless thing was yet to come.
On the last day of his fishing trip, Bai Yu checked his luck score as soon as he woke up in the morning. It was 41 points, neither too high nor too low.
With a luck value of 41, based on his usual beachcombing harvest, he could earn three to four thousand yuan.
However, this is not the case when fishing at sea, where the price difference of sea fish is simply too great.
For example, if a white fisherman catches a tuna, regardless of its species or size, the luck value he consumes will only be between a few and a dozen points.
However, the difference in profits can be enormous. The difference between a few dozen kilograms of albacore tuna and a few hundred kilograms of bluefin tuna is like heaven and earth.
Bai Yu's luck wasn't so good on the last day. He had a luck value of 41 points, but the fish he caught were all small ones.
Among them, a considerable number of filefish, also known as triggerfish or pufferfish, were caught.
His catch wasn't very good all day, and finally, around 6 p.m., they packed up and stopped fishing.
From this moment on, their fishing trip at sea came to a complete end, and they were about to head back to the dock.
The South China Sea is very large. Even though the fishing boats started returning around 6:00 AM, according to the captain, they won't be back at the dock until around 7:00 or 8:00 AM the next morning.
This long voyage had little to do with Bai Yu and his companions.
At this moment, Bai Yu and his friends were having a meal at the restaurant on the fishing boat, celebrating their bountiful catch that day.
Of course, the person being celebrated is definitely not Bai Yu, who wasn't very lucky today and didn't catch any big or valuable fish, so there's nothing to celebrate about him.
The person celebrating was Li Shuang, the winner of today's "King of Fish" on the fishing boat, who caught a 169-pound bigeye tuna.
That's why Li Shuang organized a dinner party. Based on Brother Li's estimate of the value of the bigeye tuna, he took out three thousand yuan to treat everyone on the ship to a late-night snack.
Bai Yu, Wang Hai, and Lu Sheng, seeing Li Shuang's unusual generosity, ate from beginning to end, trying their best to get their money's worth from the 3,000 yuan late-night snack.
After eating and drinking their fill, the three of them immediately returned to the crew quarters, washed up, and lay down on their beds to prepare for the next day.
The next morning at seven o'clock.
Bai Yu had already set his alarm, and amidst the blaring of the alarm, he was the first to get out of bed.
For early risers, the biggest reward is that they don't have to queue to wash up.
When he got up, not a single fisherman on the entire fishing boat was awake yet.
After all, today is the day to return to the dock, and there's no need to fish today, so why are they getting up so early? They might as well sleep in until they naturally wake up.
After Bai Yu finished washing up, he didn't call Wang Hai and the other two. Instead, he went straight to the deck and did some light exercise.
This fishing boat is great in every way, except that it's a bit too small. It would be better if it were a large cruise ship or fishing boat. The former has a gym on board, and the latter has a large enough deck for him to move around on.
He hadn't exercised much after waking up a couple of days ago, and his body was still a bit unaccustomed to it. Now he really wanted to find a place to run around properly.
Seeing the coastline appear in the distance, he knew they would soon be back at the dock. If he wanted to run, he could run as much as he wanted on land.
But before he went for a run, there was one more thing waiting for him to do: sell the fish.
After careful consideration, Bai Yu decided that it would be better not to trouble Uncle Sun with this catch.
After all, Uncle Sun owns a hotel, so he must have his own procurement channels. Whether it's high-end or low-end, his hotel has dedicated procurement teams.
In addition, Sanya and Haikou are located in different parts of Hainan Island, one in the south and the other in the north, making travel between them somewhat inconvenient.
Therefore, he planned to sell his catch to local merchants in Haikou, specifically the fish buyers contacted by the captain.
Around 8 a.m., the fishing boat slowly sailed into the dock, and Hu Tao and the others on board got up one after another.
As the land drew ever closer, their excitement grew, and they couldn't wait to get ashore.
However, they didn't come ashore for the feeling of being grounded; they just wanted the fishmongers who were already waiting on the shore to take away their catch as soon as possible.
For the twenty fishermen on board, the three-day sea voyage was a fruitful one; they all made a profit, and none of them failed to even recoup their fare.
Even Wang Xu and the other students who had never tried sea fishing before had a good catch this time, enough to earn a month or two's living expenses without any problem.
As soon as the fishing boat came to a stop at the berth, some of the more eager anglers got off the boat immediately and headed towards the fish hold with the fish buyers.
In contrast, Bai Yu and the others watched quietly from the sidelines, clearly wanting others to sell their fish first before they went to sell theirs.
As for whether someone might sell their catch as their own?
This kind of thing doesn't usually happen, since there are always crew members on the boat when any fisherman is selling fish.
All the fish caught in the hold, whether live or frozen, are numbered. Each angler can only sell the fish with the same number as their catch; the rest cannot be sold.
At this moment, Brother Li was watching over the fish hold, and with him there, Bai Yu and the others felt very at ease.
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