Looking at the enormous creature floating on the sea, Bai Yu immediately recognized it as a red octopus, and a super red octopus that was over two meters long.
Bai Yu is extremely knowledgeable about the amberjack.
After all, strictly speaking, the first big fish Bai Yu caught in all the time he had been fishing at sea was a red snapper.
It took him a lot of effort back then, and he was excited for a long time.
Looking at the enormous red octopus, Bai Yu felt completely unmoved, showing no joy whatsoever, but rather filled with confusion.
According to Bai Yu's own understanding, although the amberjack can be considered a type of large fish, it is possible to catch amberjack weighing over 100 pounds in sea fishing.
But he had never even heard of a red octopus like this, which was over two meters long and weighed a good three or four hundred pounds. He had never caught one before, let alone caught one.
According to popular science articles, the largest species of red octopus only weighs around 200 pounds.
This one is now comparable to the two super red octopuses of the past, so how could the white fish not be confused?
"Brother Yu, what's going on? Has this red octopus mutated? How did it grow so big?"
Li Shuang, standing to the side, was the same. Although he hadn't gone out to sea to fish as often as Bai Yu, he had definitely seen more big fish than Bai Yu.
Back when the company didn't have many fishing boats, my uncle wasn't in charge of scheduling them. At that time, Li Shuang was responsible for arranging the docking of each fishing boat.
During this period, Li Shuang saw far too many large fish that he had never seen before, including quite a few red octopuses, but none of them were this big.
"It's probably not a mutation; it's probably just that it's lived for too long, long enough to grow to such a large size."
"Forget it, why worry about all that? Let's focus on getting this red octopus up here quickly. We can do a live stream sometime to spread the word and see if anyone's willing to pay a high price for this big fish."
As Bai Yu spoke, he continued to drag the red octopus toward the side of the boat, and then told Wang Hai and the others to get ready with the net so they could scoop it up when it came over.
As for what he just mentioned about spreading the news about the red octopus through live streaming, that was something he had just thought of.
They were in dire need of funds, and then he saw a way to make money from this red octopus, and a way to make a lot of money at that.
After all, there are still a lot of wealthy people in our family, and our family is also a society that values personal connections, or rather, a society that values appearances.
For wealthy people, they pay great attention to their consumption level and are particularly willing to spend high prices for a certain item or to save face.
The octopus that Bai Yu just caught is so big that even Bai Yu and his crew, who own multiple fishing boats and frequently go out to sea to fish, have never seen one like it before, let alone anyone else.
Then Bai Yu and his group can use this amberjack to their advantage, for example, by claiming it's the world's largest amberjack, a fish that has surpassed world records, and so on.
At that time, it will definitely be able to be sold for a high price, especially by the bosses of large companies.
Bai Yu had even come up with a gimmick: one fish would be enough for the company's employees to eat, allowing them to broaden their horizons.
That's the gist of it. How you actually say it will depend on how you improvise.
Li Shuang and the others agreed with Bai Yu's idea, especially Li Shuang, who praised Bai Yu for having the potential to be a shrewd businessman.
With the help of the crane, Bai Yu and his team quickly got the red octopus onto the deck, bled it, and then sent it to the cold storage.
After finishing these tasks, the next step is to continue fishing, hoping to catch more and more big fish and earn more money.
After catching these two big fish (Lu Sheng also caught a 100-pound fish), Bai Yu and the others' luck immediately turned around, with one big fish after another coming to bite the hook.
Bai Yu initially thought that only their yacht was in this situation, but after looking around, he realized that he was overthinking it. It wasn't just them who had big fish to catch; the fishermen on other boats were also fishing for big fish.
Although the yacht was a bit far from the other boats, they had binoculars on board, so they could still check what was happening on the other boats.
Based on this, Bai Yu deduced that the sea area they were in might have attracted a large number of predators for some unknown reason, and that they had caught quite a few of them while the waters were still muddy.
The largest number of fish weighed more than 20 pounds but less than 100 pounds were large, but fish weighing more than 100 pounds could also be caught from time to time.
That is to say, just like the super red octopus we caught before, we only caught one, and there have never been any fish that big since. At most, we've only caught fish weighing around 200 pounds.
Unseen by Bai Yu and the others, the underwater world was quite lively.
Especially within a radius of ten nautical miles, it is quite exaggerated. In such a small area, there are as many as three schools of fish, and they are three different species of fish.
Among them, the weakest in combat power but the most numerous is the school of mackerel. This school of fish covers an exaggerated area, spanning six or seven nautical miles.
Another school of fish is the filefish, a group of nocturnal creatures. I don't know whether to say they are lucky or unlucky.
They swam here the night before and rested, and then continued to drift in the sea after dark the next day.
But before nightfall the next day, a group of mackerel appeared out of nowhere and immediately filled the place, even engulfing the group of filefish, which mingled with the mackerel.
The last school of fish was a group of small sea shrimp, somewhat like krill, but larger, and they are a specialty of the East China Sea.
These shrimp were even more unlucky; they were swimming freely in the ocean when they encountered a group of mackerel.
Although mackerel is at the bottom of the ocean food chain, that's relative to other sea fish; they are on the menus of other sea fish.
However, when it comes to shrimp, mackerel's status rises dramatically; it's a fish that can deliver a powerful blow to shrimp.
If these two meet, what will the final outcome be?
That must be the mackerel chasing the shrimp. Unfortunately, the shrimp chose to escape in the same direction as the mackerel, and that's how they ended up here, where they encountered the filefish.
Behind these mackerel are various predators, who come to eat them to fill their bellies.
Now, I never expected that chasing mackerel would yield such an unexpected reward. There were also quite a few filefish and shrimp in the catch, so I can change things up while enjoying the mackerel.
The final result was obvious: while they were eating mackerel, many large fish would also get hooked and become prey for the anglers on the surface of the sea.
Bai Yu and his group arrived at the location around 4 or 5 PM. After seeing the sailfish leaping over the water, they immediately stopped the boat and started fishing, without even having dinner.
It wasn't until 11 p.m. that Li Xue and her three companions packed up their fishing rods to prepare a late-night snack, while Bai Yu and his three companions continued fishing.
After fishing for more than five hours, Bai Yu and his team had a very good catch, including no fewer than thirty large fish weighing over 100 pounds each, half of which were tuna.
The remaining catch of less than 100 jin of fish was even greater. Bai Yu roughly calculated that in just over five hours, their harvest exceeded 10,000 jin, which was an astonishing number.
In order to catch more big fish, Bai Yu and his three companions have been giving it their all, and they are now hanging on by a thread, not daring to let their guard down.
Because they knew that once the four of them let their breath catch in their throats, it would mean that their fishing trip for the day would come to an end.
This is unacceptable to them. Now is a great opportunity to make money. Maybe they can earn enough for their first gas station supply with this harvest.
So during this period, the four men used eight fishing rods to fish. Whenever Li Xue and the others caught a big fish that was beyond their reach, Bai Yu and the others would go over to deal with it immediately and catch it as quickly as possible.
In order to firmly grasp this bountiful harvest of resources and nature's bounty, they have gone to great lengths and truly done their best.
What Bai Yu didn't know was that this resource explosion was related to him, and quite closely so.
As mentioned before, Bai Yu's Tongzi Ge has an incredibly powerful function: the resources caught by Bai Yu's fishing boats, whether they are sea fish or other seafood, will be replenished at an extremely fast speed.
For example, their company caught 10,000 tons of salmon at the end of the year, which seems to have caused some damage to the salmon population, after all, it's 10,000 tons, not 10,000 kilograms.
However, in reality, their company's actions do not harm the salmon population at all. They have caught tens of thousands of tons of salmon with roe, and before long, tens of thousands of tons of salmon with roe will appear in the ocean again to continue to reproduce and thrive in their ancestral lands.
In the past year alone, Bai Yu's company caught far more than 10,000 tons of various kinds of seafood from the sea; it was several tens of thousands of tons.
However, these seafoods recovered in a very short time. The more they caught, the more seafood was available on the market, but the amount of seafood in the ocean did not decrease.
This is a very good thing for large predators, as there is plenty of food in the ocean.
For the past two years, these large sea fish have lived a very fulfilling life, eating and drinking to their hearts' content every day, and growing fat and plump.
Once they're fattened up, they'll either be caught by other anglers or snatched away by other fishing boats during their operations.
If it's the latter, and it was caught by a fishing boat from Yuxue Shipping Company, then it won't be long before another big fish appears in the sea.
Over time, the annual seafood catch in China has remained roughly the same, but the marine resources have increased, and the number of large fish has also increased.
That's why it's said that the appearance of these big fish is related to Bai Yu, because Tongzi's ability has benefited Bai Yu and others, as well as the vast number of fishermen.
This time, Bai Yu also benefited from his own luck, catching a lot of big fish in the sea, and he can make a fortune this time.
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