With Li Ge's shot hitting the bluefin tuna, the fish's life of dominating the ocean came to an end.
After the sea calmed down, Brother Li and Bai Yu and the others flipped the tuna over and exposed its tail.
Different fishing methods are used for different types of fish. For example, when fishing for large fish such as grouper and amberjack, it is perfectly fine to use a landing net in conjunction with the hoist.
However, when dealing with large fish like tuna, you can simply put the rope around the tuna's tail and then easily hoist it up.
As the tuna broke the surface, Bai Yu and the others could finally see its size and dimensions clearly; it was truly enormous.
It was nearly two meters long, and because it was also quite fat, it looked like a cannonball.
Looking at the bluefin tuna, Bai Yu and the others felt a sense of insignificance. While this was true, there was no need to feel that way.
With a thud, the bluefin tuna made a hard landing on the deck, head first. Fortunately, the bluefin tuna was already dead and would not react no matter how much you tried to move it.
Bai Yu decided to bleed and gut the tuna himself. This was the biggest tuna he had ever caught, and it was a bluefin tuna, so he was determined to do it himself.
He took a knife from Brother Li and made a cut below the tuna's pectoral and caudal fins, then made another cut into its abdomen, gutting it.
With each slash from Bai Yu, the tuna's blood flowed out instantly, quickly filling the entire deck.
Tuna, unlike most other sea fish, have a very high blood content, which can account for up to 20% of their body weight.
In other words, 20 kilograms of a 100-pound tuna is blood. The best way to improve the taste of tuna meat is to reduce the amount of blood in the meat.
Therefore, bleeding the tuna is an essential step after catching it.
With the fish blood and tuna entrails on the deck thrown back into the sea, the remaining tuna can now be taken into the hold.
However, upon seeing this enormous thing on the deck, everyone present fell silent for a moment. This thing was too big and would be difficult to handle.
Finally, with the help of a crane, the tuna was loaded onto a small cart and then placed in the fish hold for storage.
After finishing all this, Bai Yu took out her phone and glanced at it. It was already past 12:20, almost 12:30.
Bai Yu then waved his hand and said, "Let's go get some late-night snacks. Brother Li, come with me. We ordered two really good dishes for tonight, they'll definitely satisfy you."
"Wait a minute, I'll go check the bow first. If there's nothing else, I'll go sit in the restaurant. Okay, Xiaoyu, you guys go eat first, I'll head over now."
Brother Li waved and walked towards the bow of the boat.
Bai Yu and his three companions reeled in their fishing rods. They were going to eat first, and they weren't sure if they would continue fishing later; they would decide after they finished eating.
Just then, the announcement on the fishing boat came on:
"Congratulations to Boss Number Nine on acquiring a giant bluefin tuna! This tuna is 2.01 meters long and weighs a whopping 236 kilograms. Boss, you're going to be rich!" x3
The voice coming from the radio was immediately recognizable to Bai Yu and the others as Brother Li's. As for the tuna data, they already knew it; Brother Li had told them about it when they sent it into the fish hold.
At the entrance to the fish hold, there is a small weighbridge. Any large fish transported into the fish hold by trolley must pass through this weighbridge, so Li Ge and his staff can get first-hand information about each large fish when it enters the hold.
As for the value of this bluefin tuna, based on Brother Li's past experience, regardless of the quality of the fish meat, it could sell for at least 50,000 yuan.
If its quality were even better, the price could easily increase several times over, and it could even be auctioned off.
Bai Yu was also familiar with tuna auctions; apparently, they've only become popular in China in recent years.
The main reason is that the number of tuna in our domestic waters is limited, and the number of high-quality tuna is even more limited. In order to acquire these high-quality tuna, this auction naturally came into being.
A tuna sells for 50,000 yuan. Would you consider that a case of getting rich overnight from a single fish?
One fish is worth as much as an average person's annual salary!
As Bai Yu and her group of four arrived at the restaurant, the four dishes they had ordered were already prepared. The chef brought them over as soon as they arrived.
Then Bai Yu had the chef prepare a lot of barbecue, serving whatever tasted good.
For example, chicken legs. As the biggest contributor to catching this tuna, Bai Yu directly gave Wang Hai four chicken legs, and they were the big, pistol-sized kind.
After a hearty meal, Bai Yu and his friends spent over four hundred yuan on this late-night snack, only stopping when their bellies were completely round.
Brother Li came over and ate a couple of bites of food, then hurriedly went back to work on the deck.
Having just finished their late-night snack, Bai Yu and the others drove onto the deck to walk around and digest their food, when they witnessed a very lively scene.
Perhaps spurred on by Bai Yu's bluefin tuna, the other seven anglers, besides Bai Yu and his group of four, were still struggling on the deck.
Boxes of frozen bait were once again thrown into the sea. As for the investment in bait, it was completely insignificant for bluefin tuna.
Whether it was true that baiting the boat was effective or not, as Bai Yu approached the bow, he saw one of the owners dragging a large fish to the side of the boat.
Moreover, this was also a tuna, a yellowfin tuna over a meter long, and it was under the stimulation of these large fish that...
Even though it was already 1 a.m., everyone present was still full of energy and showed no sign of wanting to sleep.
"Brother Fisherman, what should we say? With such good fishing, there's no reason not to keep fishing, right? How about we continue fishing for a while? We still have a box of frozen bait that we haven't used yet. Let's use that box up before we take a break!"
Seeing the yellowfin tuna that others had caught, Li Shuang also felt the urge to continue fishing.
Aren't you all sleepy?
"Not sleepy." x3
"If you're not sleepy, then keep fishing. Tomorrow is pretty much the last day anyway. If all else fails, you can go back to school the day after tomorrow and rest then."
Seeing that Wang Hai and the others were not sleepy, Bai Yu immediately decided to continue fishing, making the most of the last day on the surface.
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